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Native name
  
শিবনারায়ণ দাস

Alma mater
  
Name
  
Shib Das

Occupation
  
Student leader

Ethnicity
  
Bengali Hindu



Born
  
16 December 1946 (age 77) (
1946-12-16
)
Tongibari, Bengal, British India

Nationality
  
British Indian (1946-1947)Pakistani (1947-1971)Bangladeshi (1971-present)

Interview with Shib Narayan Das Part 1/6


Shib Narayan Das (born 16 December 1946) is the first craftsman of the first national flag of Bangladesh.

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Speech of shib narayan das map drawer of bd muktosangbad com


Designing the national flag of Bangladesh

As desired by the then NUCLEUS (Shadhin Bangla Biplobi Parishad) by a match stick and yellow colored paint, he marked the map of Bangladesh over the red circle of the proposed flag in the room numbered 108 of the then Iqbal Hall of Dhaka University (DU) from deep mid-night of June 6 up to the dawn of June 7 in 1970. A. S. M. Abdur Rab, Shahjahan Siraj, Kazi Aref Ahmed, Manirul Islam, Swapan Kumar Choudhury, Quamrul Alam Khan (Khasru), Hasanul Haq Inu, Yousuf Salahuddin Ahmed and some others were also involved in it and present at that time .

On behalf of the NUCLEUS, the same flag was unfurled by Abdur Rab along with AFM Mahbubul Haq, Das and other student league leaders from the roof top of the western porch of the Arts Faculty of DU, on March 2, 1971, shortly before the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War.

After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the map of Bangladesh was removed from the flag as it had difficulty for rendering the map correctly on both sides of the flag. Artist Quamrul Hassan was asked to report on the design, color, shape and explanation. On 17 January 1972, the new design was made the official national flag of Bangladesh.

References

Shib Narayan Das Wikipedia