Rama Chowdhury was a Bangladeshi writer and birangana of Bangladesh Liberation War during 1971.
10 Facts About Rama Chowdhury
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Rama Chowdhury was awarded Begum Rokeya Padak by the Government of Bangladesh posthumously in 2019.
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Rama Chowdhury wrote and sold her own books from door to door and this remained her only source of income.
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Rama Chowdhury wrote 19 books which included articles collection, novels, and poetry.
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Rama Chowdhury gave birth to three sons and her first two sons died within the two years after the Liberation War, they were only five and three years old then.
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Rama Chowdhury buried her three sons underground defying the traditional Hindu funeral system, which she did not agree with.
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Rama Chowdhury said that she could not walk with shoes over the same soil where her three children are buried because they would be hurt.
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Rama Chowdhury died on 3 September 2018 at Chittagong Medical College Hospital in Chittagong.
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Rama Chowdhury had been bedridden with various old age diseases and her condition deteriorated when in 2014 she fell down and fractured her hip.
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Rama Chowdhury was buried beside her third son's tomb in Popadia village with full state honors.