Mohammad Raushan Yazdani was a Bengali author and researcher of folk literature.
15 Facts About Raushan Yazdani
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Raushan Yazdani's most celebrated work is Momenshahir Loka-Sahitya dedicated to folk literature in Momenshahi Yazdani was one of the most popular Bengali poets in the Pakistan period.
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Raushan Yazdani's father, Shaykh Ali Kabir, was a practitioner of alternative medicine.
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Around this time at the age of 18, his mother died and Raushan Yazdani became negligent of his education and started accompanying syncretic mystics.
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Raushan Yazdani eventually left these mystics, returning to orthodox Sunni Islam after marrying Zubaydah Akhtar Khatun, a Bengali Muslim woman with whom he started a family.
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Raushan Yazdani had taken on multiple career paths throughout his life.
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Raushan Yazdani started working as a primary school teacher at a village in 1940.
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Raushan Yazdani later began his career in grade one proofreading for Franklin Publications in 1956 as well as The Azad.
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Raushan Yazdani left his job as a proofreader in 1959 due to ill health and returned to his village home and devoted himself to literary pursuits.
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Raushan Yazdani was inspired by the likes of Kazi Nazrul Islam and Jasimuddin as well as the rich puthi literature of Bengal.
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Raushan Yazdani's poetry focused much on the glory of Muslims as well as village life.
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Raushan Yazdani started writing essays on folk literature which were published in popular journals and newspapers.
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Raushan Yazdani was awarded the Adamjee Literary Award by the President of Pakistan Ayub Khan in 1959.
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Raushan Yazdani died in his native village on 23 June 1967 at 8:30am.
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Raushan Yazdani's grandson, Muhammad Mizanur Rahman Yazdani, is a poet.