Dr. Anisuzzaman no longer exists

National Professor Anisuzzaman no longer exists (Inna Lillahi wa Inna Ilahi Raziun). He was 63 years old.

He died at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka at 4:55 pm on Thursday. He suffered from various diseases due to old age.

Anisuzzaman’s son Anand Zaman said that his father died today at 4:55 pm.

Officials from the prime minister’s press wing said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has expressed regret at Anisuzzaman’s death.

National Professor Anisuzzaman was transferred from Universal Cardiac Hospital to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka last Saturday. There he died this afternoon. Dr. Anisuzzaman’s relatives said that the academic was admitted to the Universal Cardiac Hospital in the capital on April 28 after becoming ill. He had various physical complications, including heart, kidney, lung, high blood pressure. Previously, he was admitted to another hospital once in the first week of last month.

Anisuzzaman was born on February 16, 1936 in Basirhat, a district in the 24 Parganas of undivided India. He is an accomplished teacher from Chittagong and the University of Dhaka. During the liberation war he went to India and worked as a member of the Bangladesh Government Planning Commission. He is currently the President of the Bangla Academy.

Anisuzzaman is Professor Emeritus of Bengali Language and Literature at the University of Dhaka. He participated in the language movement (1952), the 1969 mass uprising (1969), and the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971. In addition, after Bangladesh’s independence in 1972. He was a member of the National Commission on Education led by Kudrat- e-Khuda. His research on the history of Bengali literature is particularly remarkable.
Anisuzzaman has won multiple awards for his contribution to education and literature. He received the Bangla Academy Literary Award from the Bangla Academy in 1980 for his contribution to essay research. The Government of Bangladesh awarded him the second highest civilian honor, the Ekushey Padak for his contribution to education in 1975. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honor, Padma Bhushan, for his contribution to education and literature, and the Government of Bangladesh awarded him the highest civilian honor. , the Independence Prize, in 2015 for his contribution to literature.

He also received the Ananda Prize twice for Anandabazar Patrika in 1993 and 2016, the D.Litt degree from Rabindranath Tagore University in 2005 and the Jagattarini Medal from Calcutta University in 2016. On June 19, 2016, the government of Bangladesh appointed him national teacher.