Humayun Azad

 

Humayun Azad (28 April 1947 – 11 August 2004) was a Bangladeshi Author, poet, scholar and lingui qualified and fictional life Azad was born in the village of Rarhikhal, Munshiganj district. He earned BA degree in Bengali language and writing from University of Dhaka. He obtain his PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. He later on serve as a faculty member of the department of Bengali language and literature at the University of Dhaka. His in the near the beginning hours career fashioned works on Bengali linguistics, notably syntax. He was regarded  as a primary multilingual human being of the Bengali speech.

Towards the end of 1980s, he ongoing to write newspaper article focusing on contemporary socio-political issues. His commentary steady all the way from beginning to end the 1990s and were later easy to get to as book as they grew in statistics. Through his writings of 1990s, he established himself as a maverick and appear to be an agnostic. In his machinery, he openly criticize religious extremism, as well as Islam, the major belief in Bangladesh.

In 1992 Professor Azad in print the first complete feminist book in Bengali titled Naari (Woman). Largely akin to The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir in filling and ideas, Naari became a runaway success and earned Humayun Azad fame as an author. In this work Azad vigilantly compile the feminist ideas of the West that stimulate the feminist donations of the subcontinent's socio-political reformers and drew attention to the anti-women stance of some acclaimed Bengali writers including Rabindranath Tagore. The work, grave of the patriarchal and male-chauvinistic attitude of religion towards women, concerned off-putting reaction from the conservatives. The Government of Bangladesh excluded the reserve in 1995. The veto was ultimately lifted in 2000, following a lawful come across that Azad win in the High patio of the country.

Assassination attempt

Azad had been fearing for his life ever since excerpt of his new novel, Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad (Pakistan's nationwide anthem; Blessed be the blessed Land) was initial available in The Daily Ittefaq's Eid supplement in 2003. In that write-up, he try to depiction the political affairs and ideology of Islamic fundamentalists of Bangladesh. After that book had been published, he started receiving a range of threats from the fundamentalists. In an email to Mukto-mona, an dependent website, wherever he was then a constituent, Azad wrote:

The Ittefaq in print a narrative by me named Pak Sar Jamin Saad Baad in its Eid matter in December 3. It deals with the situation of Bangladesh for the last two years. Now the (religious) fundamentalists are bringing out regular procession against me, solid consummate penalty. The sensitively caught up two files from end to end this letter will help you distinguish

On February 27, 2004, he became the fatality of a vicious assassination attempt by assailants near the campus of the University of Dhaka during the annual Bangla Academy book fair. A week preceding to Dr Azad's assault, Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, one of the celebrated holy leaders of Bangladesh demand, in the legislature, that Dr Azad's following satire Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad would be banned and demand the opening of the wickedness Act on the novelist.

In 2006 the leader of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) admit to the RAB interrogators that his operative approved out the attack on writer Humayun Azad and a different faculty member of Rajshahi University in 2004. The bureaucrat site of Azad's attempt of assassination is still nameless.

Death

On August 11, 2004, Professor Azad was found dead in his apartment in Munich, Germany, where he had arrived a week earlier to conduct research on the nineteenth century German romantic poet Heinrich Heine. His family demanded an investigation, alleging that the extremists who had attempted the earlier assassination had a role in this death .He was buried in Rarhikhal, his village home in Bangladesh.

Literary achievements

The storybook livelihood of Humayun Azad ongoing with poetry. However, his verse did not show any extraordinary poetic fervour. On the other hand his fabled essays, chiefly those base on outstanding do investigate, conventional important charge.

He earn a formidable reputation as a newspaper correspondent towards the end of 1980s. His articles were unfeeling attacks on public and political discrimination, double standards and corruption. He was uncowed in protest unarmed rule. His novel Chappanno Hazar Borgomile is a powerful novel on paper against unarmed authoritarianism. His peaceful his critical remarks in a book styled Humayun Azader Probochonguccho which is they say that an influence of Gustave Flaubert's Dictionary of Received Ideas .

Publication of Naari, a feminist work, earned him universal regard and paved way for establish himself in the literary world of Bangladesh. He in progress to write novels in 1990s which sold well. Azad's writings point out his revulsion for honest politicians, intolerable military ruler and fundamentalist Islam.

Nevertheless, his prose shows a well-knit and compressed style of his own. His structure of a judgment, alternative of words and sentence structure are very characteristic of him. Although he often fell victim to the appeal of using literature as a vehicle of conspicuous political and philosophical message, he famous himself with his unique style and elocution.

Professional and literary life

Azad was born in the village of Rarhikhal, Munshiganj district. He earned BA extent in Bengali talking and literature from University of Dhaka. He obtained his PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. He later served as a facility component of the segment of Bengali language and inscription at the University of Dhaka. His early career twisted works on Bengali linguistics, outstandingly syntax. He was regarded as a important multilingual person of the Bengali language.

Towards the end of 1980s, he started to write broadsheet column focusing on fashionable socio-political issues. His commentaries continued throughout the 1990s and were later published as books as they grew in numbers. from beginning to end his writings of 1990s, he established himself as a nonconformist and appeared to be an agnostic. In his works, he honestly criticized religious extremism, as well as Islam, the major religion in Bangladesh.

In 1992 university lecturer Azad published the first comprehensive feminist book in Bengali titled Naari (Woman). Largely akin to The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir in contents and ideas, Naari become a best-seller and earned Humayun Azad regard as an dramatist. In this work Azad meticulously compile the feminist ideas of the West that underlie the feminist contributions of the subcontinent's socio-political reformers and draw attention to the anti-women spot of some much-admired Bengali writers including Rabindranath Tagore The work, critical of the patriarchal and male-chauvinistic attitude of religion towards women, enthralled unhelpful reaction from the established person. The Government of Bangladesh forbidden the soft cover in 1995. The ban was evematrimonialtually lifted in 2000, successive a legal clash that Azad win in the High patio of the motherland

Awards

Azad has received plentiful awards; mainly for his all writing works.

• Bangla Academy Award (1986)
• Ekushey Padak (2012)

Bibliography

Main article: Humayun Azad bibliography

Poetry

• "Aloukik Ishtimar" (অলৌকিক ইষ্টিমার) (1973)
• "Jolo Chitabagh" (জ্বলো চিতাবাঘ) (1980)
• "Shob Kichu Noshtoder Odhikare Jabe" (সব কিছু নষ্টদের অধিকারে যাবে) (1985)
• "Jotoi Gobhire Jai Modhu Jotoi Uporay Jai Neel" (যতোই গভীরে যাই মধু যতোই ওপরে যাই নীল) (1987)
• "Ami Bachay Chilam Onnoder Shomoy" (আমি বেঁচেছিলাম অন্যদের সময়ে) (1990)
• "Humayun Azader Shreshtho Kobita" (হুমায়ূন আজাদের শ্রেষ্ঠ কবিতা) (1993)
• "Adhunik Bangla Kobita" (আধুনিক বাঙলা কবিতা) (1994)
• "Kafone Mora Osrubindu" (কাফনে মোড়া অশ্রুবিন্দু) (1998)
• "Kabya Shonggroho" (কাব্য সংগ্রহ) (1998)
• "Peronor Kichhu Nei" (পেরোনোর কিছু নেই) (2004)

Fictions

• "Chappanno Hazar Borgomile" (ছাপ্পান্নো হাজার বর্গমাইল) (1994)
• "Shob Kichu Bhenge Pore" (সব কিছু ভেঙে পড়ে) (1995)
• "Manush Hishbe Amar Oporadhshomuho" (মানুষ হিসেবে আমার অপরাধসমূহ) (1996)
• "Jadukorer Mrittu" (যাদুকরের মৃত্যু) (1996)
• "Shuvobroto, Tar Shomporkito Shushomacher" (শুভব্রত, তার সম্পর্কিত সুসমাচার) (1997)
• "Rajnitibidgon" (রাজনীতিবিদগণ) (1998)
• "Kobi Othoba Dondito Aupurush" (কবি অথবা দন্ডিত অপুরুষ) (1999)
• "Nijer Shongge Nijer Jiboner Modhu" (নিজের সঙ্গে নিজের জীবনের মধু) (2000)
• "Fali Fali Ko're Kata Chand" (ফালি ফালি ক'রে কাটা চাঁদ) (2001)
• "Uponnashshonggroho-Ak" (উপন্যাসসংগ্রহ-১ "Collection of Novels, Vol.1") (2001)
• "Sraboner Brishtite Roktojoba" (শ্রাবণের বৃষ্টিতে রক্তজবা) (2002)
• "Uponnashshonggroho-Dui" (উপন্যাসসংগ্রহ-২ "Collection of Novels, Vol.2") (2002)
• "Dosh Hazar Abong Aro Akti Dhorshon" (১০,০০০, এবং আরো একটি ধর্ষণ) (2003)
• "Ekti Khuner svapna" (একটি খুনের স্বপ্ন) (2004)
• "Pak Sar Jamin Sad Bad" (পাক সার জমিন সাদ বাদ) (2004)

Criticism

• "Rabindraprobondho/Rashtro O Shomajchinta" (রবীন্দ্র প্রবন্ধ/রাষ্ট্র ও সমাজচিন্তা) (1973)
• "Shamsur Rahman/Nishshonggo Sherpa" (শামসুর রাহমান/নিঃসঙ্গ শেরপা) (1983)
• "Shilpokolar Bimanikikoron O Onnanno Probondho" (শিল্পকলার বিমানবিকীকরণ ও অন্যান্য প্রবন্ধ) (1988)
• "Bhasha-Andolon:Shahittik Potobhumi" (ভাষা-আন্দোলন: সাহিত্যিক পটভূমি) (1990)
• "Naree" (নারী) (1992); banned between November 19, 1995 and March 7, 2000
• "Protikkriashilotar Dirgho Chayar Niche" (প্রতিক্রিয়াশীলতার দীর্ঘ ছায়ার নিচে) (1992)
• "Nibir Nilima" (নিবিড় নীলিমা) (1992)
• "Matal Torony" (মাতাল তরণী) (1992)
• "Norokay Anonto Hritu" (নরকে অনন্ত ঋতু) (1992)
• "Jolpai Ronger Andhokar" (জলপাই রঙের অন্ধকার) (1992)
• "Shimaboddhotar Shutro" (সীমাবদ্ধতার সূত্র) (1993)
• "Adhar O Adhayo" (আধার ও আধেয়) (1993)
• "Amar Abishshash" (আমার অবিশ্বাস) (1997)
• "Parbotto Chattagram: Shobuj Paharer Bhetor Diye Probahito Hingshar Jhornadhara" (পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রাম: সবুজ পাহাড়ের ভেতর দিয়ে প্রবাহিত হিংসার ঝরনাধারা) (1997)
• "Nirbachito Probondho" (নির্বাচিত প্রবন্ধ) (1999)
• "Mohabishsho" (মহাবিশ্ব) (2000)
• "Ditio Lingo" (দ্বিতীয় লিঙ্গ) (2001); translation of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• "Amra Ki Ai Bangladesh Cheyechilam" (আমরা কি এই বাঙলাদেশ চেয়েছিলাম) (2003)
• "Dhormanuvutir Upokotha" (ধর্মানভূতির উপকথা ও অন্যান্য) (2004)
• "Amar Notun Jonmo" (আমার নতুন জন্ম) (2005)
• "Amader Boimela" (আমাদের বইমেলা) (2006)

Linguistics

• "Pronominalization in Bengali" (1983)
• "Bangla Bhashar Shotrumitro" (বাঙলা ভাষার শত্রুমিত্র) (1983)
• "Bakkototto" (বাক্যতত্ত্ব) (1994)
• "Bangla Bhasha" Vol.2 (বাঙলা ভাষা - দ্বিতীয় খন্ড) (1985)
• "Bangla Bhasha" (বাঙলা ভাষা - প্রথম খন্ড) (1994)
• "Tulonamulok O Oitihashik Bhashabiggan" (তুলনামূলক ও ঐতিহাসিক ভাষাবিজ্ঞান) (1988)
• "Arthobiggan" (অর্থবিজ্ঞান) (1999)

Teenage literature

• "Lal Neel Dipaboli Ba Bangla Shahitter Jiboni" (লাল নীল দীপাবলি বা বাঙলা সাহিত্যের জীবনী) (1976)
• "Fuler Gondhe Ghum Ashena" (ফুলের গন্ধে ঘুম আসেনা) (1985)
• "Koto Nodi Shorobor Ba Bangla Bhashar Jiboni" (কতো নদী সরোবর বা বাঙলা ভাষার জীবনী) (1987)
• "Abbuke Mone Pore" (আব্বুকে মনে পড়ে) (1989)
• "Bukpokete Jonakipoka" (বুকপকেটে জোনাকিপোকা) (1993)
• "Amader Shohoray Akdol Debdut" (আমাদের শহরে একদল দেবদূত) (1996)
• "Andhokaray Gondhoraj" (অন্ধকারে গন্ধরাজ) (2003)
• "Our Beautiful Bangladesh" (2004)

Others

• "Humayun Azader Probochonguccho" (হুমায়ুন আজাদের প্রবচনগুচ্ছ) (1992)
• "Shakkhatkar" (সাক্ষাৎকার) (1994)
• "Attotayider Shonge Kothopokothon" (আততায়ীদের সঙ্গে কথোপকথন) (1995)
• "Bohumatrik Jotirmoy" (বহুমাত্রিক জ্যোতির্ময়) (1997)
• "Rabindranath Thakurer Prothom Kobita" (রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুরের প্রধান কবিতা) (1997)

 He wrote more than seventy titles. He was widely known for his anti-establishment, anti-religion and anti-military voice and was reputed for caustic remarks. In 2012, the Government of Bangladesh honored him with Ekushey Padak posthumously.