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Rafiq Azad (Rafiqul Islam Khan) was born on 14 February, 1941 in Tangail, Bengal Presidency, British India, is a Bangladeshi poet, editor and writer. Discover Rafiq Azad's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Rafiqul Islam Khan
Occupation Poet, literary editor
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 14 February 1941
Birthday 14 February
Birthplace Tangail, Bengal Presidency, British India
Date of death 2016
Died Place Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nationality India

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1925

After March 25th crackdown by Pakistani Military, Azad joined Kader Siddique’s ‘Kaderia Bahini’, a civilian guerrilla force, to fight against the occupying army in the Liberation War.

He soon received the necessary arms and equipment from the treasury, provided by then finance secretary Khondokar Asaduzzaman.

1941

Rafiq Azad (born Rafiqul Islam Khan; February 14, 1941 – March 12, 2016) was a Bangladeshi poet, editor and writer.

He is credited with 45 collections of poetry including Prakriti O Premer Kabita, Asambhaber Paye, Sahasra Sundar, Haturir Nichae Jiban, Khub Beshi Durea Noy, Khamakaro Bahaman Hey Udar Amiyo Batas and others.

Azad was born on February 14, 1941, in the remote village of Guni in Tangail district, a central region of Bangladesh.

He was the youngest of three children of Salimuddin Khan and Rabeya Khan.

1960

He began his career as a lecturer in Kagmari College (now Govt. Maulna Mohammad Ali College) in Tangail in the late 1960s.

1965

He earned his bachelor's and master's in Bengali literature from University of Dhaka in 1965 and 1967, respectively.

Azad was widely regarded as one of the most prolific young poets in the post-Liberation War period.

He had 45 books to his credit, including an autobiography.

1969

Azad married Adila Bakul in 1969 and together they had four children - Lopa, Rahul, Deepita and Rajeev.

1971

The poet participated in the war against the Pakistani occupation forces in 1971 Liberation War and was awarded ‘Notable Freedom Fighter Award” in 1997.

The year 1971, changed the course of the poet's life, as he traded his pen with a wooden rifle.

1972

He joined Bangla Academy in 1972 and worked there until 1984, as the executive editor of Uttaradhikar, a monthly magazine.

1973

His first book of poetry, Ashombhober Paye, was published in 1973.

Since then, he had experimented with language and poetic form, where surrealistic approach was conspicuous.

He described himself as a 'lover of humans, nature and romance'.

He depicted love, romance, poverty, sufferings, injustice, urban and rural life through his poems.

Many of his love poems, including ‘He Doroja’ and ‘Bhalobashar Shonga’(Definition of Love), have been used and quoted many times in movies, TV dramas and other media in Bangladesh.

1974

He is most well known for his poem "Bhaat De Haramjada" (Give me food, bastard) which was written during the famine of 1974.

He became widely famous when his controversial poem “Bhaat De Haramjada” was published in 1974.

At the time the country was going through its worst famine.

It was an angry poem about a starving man lashing out in impotent rage- “Bhat De Haramzada, Noile Manchitro Khabo” (“give me food, bastard! Or I will engulf your map, your geography!”).

The indication was -if the newly independent country cannot even feed its own people, then what good is the liberation?

The poet quickly became the center of a controversy.

The Sheikh Mujib administration found the poem to be incendiary and an attack on the ruling party, while his readership hailed it as a rebellious and courageous outburst.

In an attempt to settle the debate, Azad explained to the administration, by writing a long analysis of how his poem only reflected the great literary tradition of Bengal and the poem intended no animosity toward the government.

Throughout his professional life, spanning 50 years, Azad had many roles.

1980

He was also the editor of Robbaar, another popular weekly in 1980s.

Azad was the director of National Book Center (Jatiyo Grontho Kendro) of Bangladesh for many years.

He briefly served as the deputy general manager of BJMC (Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation).

1983

In 1983, the couple separated and later that year he married Dilara Hafiz.

Together they had two sons - Ovinna and Obyoy.

1984

He received Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1984 and national award Ekushey Padak in 2013, for his contribution to Bangla language and literature.

1995

Azad returned to Bangla Academy in 1995, for a brief period, to help assist the ‘Young Writers Project’, taking up the role of poetics instructor.

Later he went back to teaching and became a visiting professor of literature at Jahangirnagar University in Savar.

In the recent years, he had been working in a daily called Amader Shomoy.

2016

Azad suffered a stroke in January 2016 and remained hospitalized for almost 8 weeks.

He died on March 12, 2016, in Dhaka.

His body was entombed in Martyred Intellectuals' Cemetery in Mirpur.