14 Facts About Kabir Chowdhury

Kabir Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi academic, essayist, materialist, translator, cultural worker and civil society activist.

Kabir Chowdhury's father, Khan Bahadur Abdul Halim Chowdhury, was a district magistrate.

Kabir Chowdhury grew up in an atmosphere of liberal ideas and secular thinking.

Kabir Chowdhury's family hailed from Chatkhile of Noakhali district of Bangladesh and his father was a devout Muslim.

Kabir Chowdhury has written extensively on world's famous writers and painters.

Kabir Chowdhury has written extensively on peace and conflict resolution through discussion and has tried to promote these values by his work as a teacher and as an administrator.

Kabir Chowdhury was inducted as National Professor of Bangladesh in 1998.

Kabir Chowdhury was a member of the Presidium of the Bangladesh World Peace Council and headed the Bangladesh-Soviet Friendship Society for over a decade.

Kabir Chowdhury was the president of the Bangladesh Vidyasagar Society and chairman of the Advisory Council of Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee.

Kabir Chowdhury has written extensively on anti-fundamentalism, religious fanaticism and communalism, and has stressed the need for developing broad human values and for realising the importance of cultural diversity, and the imperatives for developing a pluralistic society.

Kabir Chowdhury addressed gatherings in Germany, Russia, USA, Bulgaria, Angola, Japan, Pakistan and India.

Kabir Chowdhury had the privilege of meeting Nelson Mandela, Yassir Arafat, Agostinho Neto and Kim Il Sung.

Kabir Chowdhury played a leading role in many movements in Bangladesh, especially in the anti-communal movement, movement to establish democracy, and significantly in the movement to ensure the trial of those who had committed crimes against humanity and war crimes during the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.

Kabir Chowdhury served as the president of Bangla Academy until his death in office.