1. Serajuddin Hossain was a prominent Bangladeshi journalist.
17 Facts About Serajuddin Hossain
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Serajuddin Hossain was the news and executive editor of The Daily Ittefaq.
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Serajuddin Hossain was captured from his residence by the Pakistan army with the help of Al-Badr and Razakar.
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Serajuddin Hossain was not only a prominent journalist, but was considered to be a good writer and translator.
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Serajuddin Hossain was the first to introduce investigative reporting into Bangla newspaper.
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Serajuddin Hossain was born in the village Sharushuna, in the district Magura.
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Serajuddin Hossain's father was Maulana Mazharul Haque and his mother was Ashrafunnessa.
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Serajuddin Hossain lost his father when he was three years old.
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In 1949, Hossain married Nurjahan Begum, the sister of his college friend Shamsuddin Molla, who was to become a politician.
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In 1954, during a provincial election, Serajuddin Hossain supported the Jukto Front.
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Serajuddin Hossain was a political journalist, but his work spread over a number of other subjects.
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Serajuddin Hossain wanted to establish the fact that it was an organised crime, a single group of many criminals.
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Serajuddin Hossain was a trade unionist as well, and was elected as the president of the East Pakistan Journalism Union for two terms.
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Serajuddin Hossain agreed with Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's political point of view.
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Serajuddin Hossain was a theoretician of the Bengali Nationalist Movement.
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Serajuddin Hossain never returned nor was his body ever found.
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Serajuddin Hossain was known as an honest journalist, and was responsible for Ittefaqs headlines and news selection.