Mustafizur Rahman
Freedom fighter, lyricist and translator
January 1, 1939 - December 12, 1997
Mustafizur Rahman was born on 1 January 1939 in Azmatpur village of Bhagwangola police station in West Bengal, India. His father Keramutullah Sarkar was fluent in French. His younger uncle, the first Bengali Muslim-renowned archaeologist and historian of the subcontinent, Maulvi Samsuddin Ahmed (189-197) was the first director of the Archaeological Department of Pakistan. He moved to Rajshahi with his parents after the partition of the country in 1947 and settled permanently in the western part of Rajshahi city.
Education is life
After matriculating from Rajshahi Collegiate School in 1953, he was admitted to the traditional Rajshahi College and passed the IA examination in 1955 and the BA examination in 1956. In 1969, he got the honor of getting first place in the first class in LLB examination from Rajshahi University. During this period he actively participated in meetings and processions in the movement to demand that Bengali be made one of the state languages of Pakistan in the 1950s. Encouraged by the language movement, he was vocal against injustice from his student days.
Professional life
After passing BA, he was the headmaster of Charghat School in Rajshahi district for a few years. In the late sixties, he took an active part in the mass uprising against Ayub Khan, Pakistan's military junta. After the publication of the results of the LLB in 1989, he was directly offered a job as a munsif by the then government, but he devoted himself to the law business in the Rajshahi Judge's Court.
After the independence of the country, he worked as a journalist in Dhaka for some time. In 1984, he was the Assistant Regional Director of Bangladesh Betar Rajshahi Kendra. At that time, the first folk music festival on Rajshahi Betar was successfully completed under his supervision. At that time a literary organization called "Uttara Sahitya Majlish" was formed through the joint efforts of the poets and writers of Rajshahi. Mustafizur Rahman Gama is one of the founders of this organization. In June 1986, under his overall supervision, the first month-long national cultural program was organized in Rajshahi. He has also served as Vice-President of the Shah Makdum Institute and Public Library. He served as Assistant Regional Director at Rangpur, Dhaka and Chittagong stations of Bangladesh Betar and retired from Chittagong Radio as Deputy Regional Director at the end of 1996.
Culture
Along with Ustad Abdul Malek Khan and Ustad Abdul Aziz Bachchu, he played a special role in the establishment of "Surbani Sangeet Vidyalaya" to facilitate the practice of music in Rajshahi.
He was a direct and indirect artisan at the establishment of the first branch of the District Shilpakala Academy in Rajshahi. For the purpose of regular literary practice in Rajshahi, a number of established literary groups consisting of fiction writers Hasan Azizul Haque, poet Abubakar Siddique, Professor Ali Anwar, poet Khan Abdur Rashid, poet Zulfiqar Matin, playwright Abdur Rashid Khan Ghaznabi and others. Does. A number of magazines were also published under his editorship from this institution.
He has made significant contributions as one of the pioneers of the Little Magazine movement in Rajshahi in the sixties and seventies. It may be mentioned that besides Rajshahi, while working in Rangpur, Dhaka and Chittagong, he was associated with various literary, cultural and public welfare organizations in his spare time. Little has contributed a lot to the publication of the magazine. In Chittagong he established the "World Peace Association".
In 1969, he firmly accepted the great vow of literary and cultural practice and service to the country. He has always been steadfast on the path of truth and justice with an uncompromising attitude towards the liberation of the motherland. In the late 1970's, catastrophic tidal waves killed an estimated one million people and left thousands homeless. To stand by the side of this homeless helpless countless people, he traveled with the poets and artists and performed plays, songs and poems on the streets. At that time huge sums of money were collected and given to the relief fund under his leadership. During the mass uprising of 1969, his patriotic songs and mass songs inspired and inspired the entire nation.
Most of his plays have been broadcast on the radio. His play "The River Still Cries" aired on Dhaka Radio in the spirit of the liberation war still makes people cry. His first book of poetry was published in Bengali from Rajshahi in 1966, "In the Dark Light of the Endless".
Contribution to the liberation war
After the mass uprising, he declared complete solidarity with the demand for the life of the Bengali nation and his strong role in building mass resistance on the soil of Rajshahi with the aim of forming public opinion in favor of the war of liberation in early 1971 on the question of independence is well known. At the same time, his poems and songs moved and agitated the people of Rajshahi. During this time he formed the Shilpi Sangram Parishad with poets, writers and artists of Rajshahi and he was the convener of this council.
During the war of liberation in 1971, Mustafizur Rahman was involved in information, intelligence and mass forces at the sub-sector 4 headquarters under Sector 7 on the battlefield. On the one hand, as he was engaged in killing the enemy with arms, on the other hand, he also played an important role as a vocalist in shaping the world opinion in favor of the liberation war through the sharp writing of the pen.
Mustafizur Rahman has written and reviewed manuscripts of programs like "Drishtipat", "Kathgara Asami", "Agragami Muktibahini", Sangbad Review, "Jallader Darbar", "Jabab Dao", "Sonar Bangla", "Gram Bangla" etc. at Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra. . His inspiring drama "Ke Amader Rukhbe" and patriotic song also touched the hearts of the heroic freedom fighters fighting on the battlefield.
Lyricist
When the radio station was established in Rajshahi in 1983, he made his debut as a lyricist in this center.
He has composed more than four thousand songs. Not to mention a song full of compassion and anxiety
"Don't think, mother, your sons are lost on the way, they are in the revolutionary consciousness of thousands of minds ..."
The composer of this song was Samar Das and the artist was Hemant Mukherjee. Later, artist Tapan Mahmud recorded the song in the long play of Muktijoddha Kalyan Trust. Apart from him and Prabal Chowdhury, many other artists also performed the song on radio and television. This song was broadcast many times in 1971 from Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra.
He was a regular lyricist on radio and TV. He has composed songs for several movies, most notably Narayan Ghosh Mita's "Alor Michi" and "Lathial".
Translation work
Apart from composing songs, he has also risen to the top in literary pursuits, especially in translation. He also had an outstanding command of Bengali and English language and literature. And that is why he was able to gain the admiration of the readers and scholars by introducing his pen power in the work of translation.
Mustafizur Rahman Gamma has translated a total of nine books. Among them are two collections of stories, five plays and two children's works. List of his translated books:
Best Foreign Story (a collection of 8 stories); First publication: 198, Muktadhara, Dhaka.
Yeger Bulikov and others (drama); Original: Maxim Gorky. First publication: 198, Muktadhara, Dhaka.
Caligula (drama); Original: Albato Kamu. First publication: 198, Muktadhara, Dhaka.
Silent Hell (drama); Original: Jean Paul Satre. First publication: 198, Muktadhara, Dhaka.
They are below (drama); Original: Maxim Gorky. First publication: 198, Muktadhara, Dhaka.
Murder marriage (drama); Original: Federico Garcia Loca. First publication: 198, Muktadhara, Dhaka.
Russian Story (a collection of 7 stories); 198, Muktadhara, Dhaka.
Bohemian fairy tales (children's collection of 6 stories); First publication: 198, Muktadhara, Dhaka.
Fairy tales from home and abroad (children's collection of 18 stories); First publication: 198, Second publication: 2004, Muktadhara, Dhaka.
"Norwegian Folk Tales"; (Original: Raider Thorvand Christiannsen) Bangla Academy, Dhaka
Awards and honors
In 1984, he won the award for best lyricist from Bangladesh Film Journalists Association (BACHAS), Bangla Sangstha Uttaran and Cinema. He also received the Bangladesh Writers' Association Award in 1986 for his translation work. He was awarded the Rajshahi Writers' Council Medal in 1993 for his overall work.
He was posthumously honored for his great work with the selfless, outstanding, gifted people of Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra on the day of unveiling of the album "Jagaraner Gaan", a collection of 71 songs, on December 12, 2009 at Shikha Chirantan Premises, Suhrawardy Udyan.
End of life
Shortly after his retirement, he became seriously ill. He was taken to Calcutta on 23 October 1997. At that time, both his kidneys were inoperable, according to the doctors in Kolkata. Mustafizur Rahman had to start gamma dialysis within six months of his return because by then his kidneys had stopped working.
He was being treated at the Lake Side Clinic in Bangalore, India, far from his motherland, in the hope of getting a new kidney transplant. He died on 12 December 1997. His janaza was completed on 16 December and he was buried at the premises of Garibullah Shah Mazar in Chittagong.
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