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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
 Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) poet, prose writer, composer, painter, essayist, philosopher, educationist, social reformer. It is basically as a poet that he gained fame all over the world. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1913, the first Asian writer to have been awarded this distinction. |
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
 Lalon Shah (1774-1890) Baul guru, and singer and composer of baul songs. According to tradition, he was born into a kayastha family in the village of Bhandara in Kushtia. As a young boy, Lalon caught smallpox and was abandoned in a critical condition. Siraj Sain, a Muslim fakir, picked up the child and nursed him back to health. Lalon was later inducted as a Baul fakir. He set up an akhda at Chheuriya, where he lived with his wife and a few disciples. |
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 Mir Mosharraf Hossain (1847-1912) novelist, playwright and essayist, was born at Lahiripara in the district of kushtia on 13 November 1847, son of Mir Moazzem Hossain, a zamindar. Mosharraf Hossain learned Arabic and Persian with a teacher at home and then Bangla at a pathshala. He began his formal education at Kushtia School and then studied up to Class V at Krishnanagar Collegiate School. He was admitted to Kalighat School in Kolkata but could not complete his studies.
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Friday, 14 December 2007 |
Husain, Quazi Motahar (1897-1981) educationist, scientist and litterateur. Born in the village of Lakshmipur of kumarkhali upazila in kushtia district, (native village, Baghmara, under pangsha upazila in faridpur), Quazi Motahar Husain matriculated (1915) from  Kushtia High School with distinction. He passed Intermediate examination from Rajshahi College (1917) and BA (Honours) and MA in Physics from Dhaka College in 1919 and 1921 respectively. Quazi Motahar Husain received diploma in Statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute in 1938. Simultaneously, he obtained another MA degree in Mathematics from Calcutta University. He obtained PhD in Statistics on 'Design of Experiments' from Dhaka University in 1951. Doctoral thesis of Quazi Motahar Husain brought to light a new method known as 'Husain's Chain Rule'. Professor Husain was the first academic statistician of East Bengal, now called Bangladesh. |
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 Jatindranath (or Jyotindranath, as he used to sign) was born on 8 December 1879 at his maternal uncles’ house at Koya in Kushtia Subdivision (now in Bangladesh) of Nadia district. His ancestral home was at Sadhuhati-Rishkhali in Jhenidah Subdivision of Jessore (now in Bangladesh, too). His father Umeshchandra, a well-to-do Brahmin of patriotic and spirited disposition, died when he was five and his sister, Benodebala, ten.
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Wednesday, 17 December 2008 |
ওয়াহাবী আন্দোলনের বিখ্যাত নেতা কাজী মিয়াজান কুষ্টিয়া জেলার কুমারখালীর পার্শ্ববর্তী দুর্গাপুর গ্রামে উনবিংশ শতাব্দীর সূচনায় জন্মগ্রহণ করেন। তাঁদের পূর্বপুরুস খোকসা-জানিপুরে বাস করতেন বলে জানা যায়। কাজী মিয়াজাস বাল্যকালে সামান্য ধর্মীয় শিক্ষা লাভ করেছিলেন। জমিদার, নীলকর, জোতদার ও মহাজনের অত্যাচার ও শোষণে মুসলমানদের চরম দুর্গতি দেখে তিনি ব্যথিত হন। তাঁর সমসাময়িককালে কুমারখালী অঞ্চলে অধিকাংশ মুসলমান স্বধর্ম ভুলে হিন্দুদের লক্ষীপূজা, গাজন উতসব, শীলাদেবীর গূজাসহ বহু ইসলাম বিরোধী কাজে অভ্যস্ত ছিল। |
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