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Abu Zafar Obaidullah


Abu Zafar Obaidullah
Abu Zafar Obaidullah (1934– 2001) was a Bangladeshi artist. Two of his long sonnets, Aami-Kingbodontir-Kathaa Bolchi and Bristi O Shahosi Purush-er Jonyo Pranthona, have turned out to be celebrated since their first production in the late 1970s. On 8 February 1934 artist Abu Zafar Mohammad Obaidullah Khan (A. Z. M. Obaidullah Khan) was conceived in Baherchar-Kshudrakathi town under Babuganj upazila of Barisal region on 8 February 1934, in unified India. He was the second child of Justice Abdul Jabbar Khan, a previous speaker of the Pakistan national get together. He got his essential training in Mymensingh town where his dad Abdul Jabbar Khan was acting as the region judge. In 1948, he passed the registration examination from the Mymensingh Zilla School. He passed the Intermediate in Arts examination as an understudy of the Dhaka College in 1950. He was then conceded into the Dhaka University to consider English and in the wake of securing B.A. (Respects) and M.A. degrees, he joined an indistinguishable college in 1954 from a teacher in the Department of English. He showed up in the Pakistan Superior Service Examinations and having stood second in the consolidated national legitimacy list, he joined the Civil Service of Pakistan in 1957. He was elevated as Secretary to the Government of Bangladesh in 1976 and in the wake of resigning in 1982, he accecpted the position of Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources in 1982. Later he additionally filled in as Bangladesh's Ambassador to the United States of America. In 1992, he turned into the Assistant Director General of FAO Regional Office in Bangkok; he resigned from this position four years after the fact. He passed on 19 March 2001. He was the second eldest sibling of writer Enayetullah Khan and legislator Rashed Khan Menon.

Abu Zafar Obaidullah effectively took part in the Language Movement of 1952. He formed "Kono Ek Ma-key" ("To a Mother") for the primary compilation on Ekushey, which is recounted at the Central Shaheed Minar on 21 February consistently. Obaidullah was a trend-setter as far as both style and topic. He habitually expounded on standard individuals and their lives and dreams, and additionally Bangladesh's freedom battle. He established "Padaboli" which turned into the main verse development of Bangladesh in the 1980s. 

Obaidullah Khan was one of the pioneers of the Dhaka-driven gathering theater development that began in the 1950s. Alongside Syed Maksudus Saleheen, Taufiq Aziz Khan and Bazlul Karim he built up Drama Circle in 1956.

Honors
  1.   Ekushey Padak (1985)
  2.    Bangla Academy Award


Verse admirers of Dhaka built up Poet Abu Zafar Obaidullah Foundation in 2002. At present Arif Nazrul is the Foundation president (2008). Among other standard exercises, this establishment gives yearly honors to individuals they see as adding to the national intrigue. Additionally, "Writer Abu Zafar Obaidullah Smriti Pathagar" (remembrance library) was built up in Babuganj of Barisal in 2003.
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