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Syed Waliullah

Died in 1971

Syed Waliullah was born on 15 August 1922 in Sholashahar, near Chittagong; his father, a civil servant, was posted to several towns in East Bengal, where the boy discovered life in the countryside. A graduate of Ananda Mohan College in 1943, he did not complete his master's degree in economics in Calcutta and joined The Statesman. After the partition, he worked at Radio Pakistan, was a press attaché in New Delhi, Sydney, Jakarta and London, then a diplomat in Paris and, from 1967 to 1971, a specialist at UNESCO. In 1971 he pleaded the Bangladeshi cause with French writers and died in Paris on 10 October of that year.

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