Status Presumed dead Role Novelist Ethnicity Bengali | Spouse Panna Kaiser (m. 1969) Name Shahidullah Kaiser Siblings Zahir Raihan | |
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Full Name Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah Alma mater Presidency College, Kolkata Occupation writer, novelist, journalist, editor Children Shomi Kaiser, Amitabh Kaiser Education University of Calcutta, Presidency University, Kolkata Awards Bangla Academy Award (1962), Independence Day Award (1998) | ||
শহীদুল্লা কায়সার এর জীবনী | Biography Of Shahidullah Kaiser In Bangla.
Shahidullah Kaiser (Bengali: শহীদুল্লা কায়সার; 16 February 1927 – 14 December 1971) was a Bangladeshi novelist and writer.
Contents
- Biography Of Shahidullah Kaiser In Bangla
- Shahidullah Kaiser Biography Songsoptok Oppening Juthi 01April2017
- Early life and education
- Family
- Politics and journalism
- Disappearance
- Literary works
- Awards
- References
Shahidullah Kaiser Biography Songsoptok Oppening | Juthi | 01April2017
Early life and education
Kaiser was born in the Mazupur village (in present-day Feni District) as Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah. He studied at Presidency College, Kolkata and obtained a bachelor's degree in economics with honours. Later, he enrolled in master's of arts at Calcutta University but did not complete the degree.
Family
Kaiser's wife, Panna Kaiser, is an author and novelist. She served as a member of the parliament for the Awami League government from 1996 to 2001. Kaiser's daughter, Shomi Kaiser, is a TV actress. His son, Amitav Kaiser, is a banker.
Politics and journalism
Kaiser was active in politics and cultural movements from his student days. Following the formation of Pakistan in 1947, he joined the provincial Communist Party of East Pakistan. He started working as a journalist in 1949 with the Ittefaq in Dhaka. In 1952, he participated actively in the Language Movement. For his political role in the movement for protection of Bengali language, Kaiser was arrested on 3 June 1952. He was later jailed for three and a half years. Right after his release in 1955, he was again arrested and jailed on a political crackdown on activists. A few years later he was released. In 1958, Kaiser joined as an associate editor of The Sangbad – a Bengali language daily – where he worked for the rest of his life. When the military coup of 1958 put Ayub Khan in power, and martial law was proclaimed, Kaiser was arrested again on 14 October 1958 and remained in jail for four years till his release in September 1962.
Disappearance
Kaiser collected medicine and food and delivered those to the posts such as one being Begum Sufia kamal's house, from where the freedom fighters picked those up for their training outpost.
At the end the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, the Pakistan Army and its local collaborators initiated a plan for killing the leading Bengali intellectuals. As a part of it, Kaiser was rounded up on 14 December 1971. He never returned, nor was his body ever found. It is assumed that he was executed along with other intellectuals. His brother, Zahir Raihan, a notable film-maker, also disappeared while searching for Kaiser.
Early December 1971, Kaiser cautioned Sufia Kamal to leave Dhaka but he himself did not leave and got caught in the hand of Pakistani Army.
On 3 November 2013, Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – nine Dhaka University teachers, six journalists including Shahidullah Kaiser and three physicians – in December 1971.
Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin denied the charges in an interview aired by AL Jazeera in August.