1. Abu Tayyab Muhammad Anisuzzaman was a Bangladeshi academic of Bengali literature.
17 Facts About Anisuzzaman
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Anisuzzaman was an activist who took part in the Language Movement, participated in the Mass Uprising, and took part in the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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Anisuzzaman served as a member of the Planning Commission to the Government of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh liberation war and a member of the National Education Commission set up by the government after liberation.
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Anisuzzaman was inducted as a National Professor by the Government of Bangladesh in 2018.
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Anisuzzaman was appointed as the president of Bangla Academy for four terms and served until his death.
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Abu Tayyab Muhammad Anisuzzaman was born on 18 February 1937 to a Bengali family of Muslim Sheikhs in Basirhat, 24 Parganas, Bengal Presidency.
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Anisuzzaman's father, ATM Moazzem, was a homeopathy practitioner and his grandfather, Sheikh Abdur Rahim, was a journalist and writer.
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Anisuzzaman obtained his bachelor's in 1956 and his master's in 1957 in Bengali from the University of Dhaka.
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Anisuzzaman was a visiting fellow at the University of Paris, North Carolina State University and the University of Calcutta, and a visiting professor at the Visva-Bharati.
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Anisuzzaman was a member of the Planning Commission of the Government of Bangladesh during the Bangladesh liberation war and a member of the National Education Commission set up by the government after liberation.
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Anisuzzaman was responsible for the Bengali language part of the Constitution of Bangladesh adopted in November 1972.
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Anisuzzaman served as Chairman of the Trustee Board of the Nazrul Institute and has been the president of the Bangla Academy since 2011.
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Anisuzzaman took part in the Language Movement, participated in the Mass Uprising, took part in the War of Liberation and was the secretary of the Bangladesh Teachers' Association in 1971.
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Anisuzzaman was an secular humanist, having lost faith in organised religion during his youth.
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Anisuzzaman died from multi organ failure at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka on 14 May 2020.
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Anisuzzaman was admitted to Universal Medical College Hospital after falling sick about three weeks prior to his death.
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Anisuzzaman is buried at Azimpur Graveyard in Dhaka in line with the guidelines for the burial of COVID-19 patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh.