19 Facts About Salimullah Khan

Salimullah Khan translated the works of Plato, James Rennell, Charles Baudelaire, Frantz Fanon, Dorothee Solle into Bengali.

Salimullah Khan was born to a Bengali Muslim family in Cox's Bazar district and grew up in Maheshkhali.

Salimullah Khan taught at the Department of Law, University of Rajshahi from 1983 to 1984, at the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka from 1985 to 1986, and East West University from 2001 to 2002.

Salimullah Khan was a fellow at SOAS, University of London and Stockholm University.

Salimullah Khan edited a periodical titled Praxis Journal from 1979 to 1986.

Salimullah Khan is currently the director of the Centre for Advanced Theory at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.

Salimullah Khan is associated with a number of other organisations, such as the Center for Asian Arts and Cultures and Ahmed Sofa RashtraSabha.

Salimullah Khan wrote two books on Freudo-Lacanian philosophy: Freud Porar Bhumika, and Ami Tumi She.

Salimullah Khan's first book Bangladesh: Jatiyo Obosthar Chalchitro was a critique of Abdur Razzaq's famous lecture: Bangladesh: State of the Nation.

Salimullah Khan wrote on Lalon Shah, Ramaprasad Chanda, Jasimuddin, Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, Ahmed Sofa, Abul Hasan, Tareque Masud and some of his contemporaries.

Salimullah Khan edited a collection of writings by Ahmed Sofa on Rabindranath Tagore.

Salimullah Khan has intervened in recent debates on the number of martyrs in the Liberation War of Bangladesh.

Salimullah Khan discussed how Islam was propagated in Bengal through the medium of Bengali language.

Salimullah Khan denounced communal attacks and suggests that upholding social justice is critical to drive away communalism from the national arena.

Salimullah Khan defends the equal right of all communities to observe their respective religions, and believes that proper education and guidance is critical to dissuade the young generation from going down the path of extremism.

Salimullah Khan is a leading advocate of Bengali to be the main medium of education in the Bangladeshi academia.

Salimullah Khan opined that without establishing Bengali as the main medium of education in all stages, the decolonization process would lag behind, and the Anglocentric colonial cringe would persist in the social dynamics in Bangladesh.

Salimullah Khan said that second languages should be taught to complement Bengali, not to supersede it.

Salimullah Khan is a vocal critic of certain prescriptions on Bengali orthography.