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
- Ekushey Padak (1985)
- 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.