National journalist, columnist, writer and writer Abdul Ghaffar Chowdhury is no more, his 88 years.
He died in a London hospital on Thursday morning (Inna... Rajiun, a journalist who was suffering from various diseases for several days, journalist Swadesh Raat confirmed this information to the media.
Saida Muna Tasnim, Bangladesh High Commissioner to the UK, said that Ghaffar was in Cheudhuri Hospital for the past few days and today he was dead at around 7 am.
Abdul Ghaffar Chowdhury was the author of the classic song ‘Amar Bhai's blood colored’, the founder and editor of the first newspaper of Swadhin Banglar Sapti Bangla, Saptic Jai Bangla, registered in the war of independence through the Mujibnagar government.
Gaffar Chowdhury was born on December 12, 1934 in the village of Ulania, Barisal.
Ghaffar Chowdhury, who was writing in his student life, published his story in 1949 in the monthly Saugat magazine edited by Mohammad Nasiruddin. In 1952, the first novel ‘Chandradwidir Upakhyan’ was published in the journal Ittefa, edited by Tafazzal Hossain Manik Misha.
When the liberation war started in 1971, Abdul Ghaffar Chowdhury took on the role of the pen warrior and held the title of executive editor of the Bangla newspaper.
The President expressed grief over the death of this veteran journalist. Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
