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Mir Mosharraf Hossain (13 November 1847 – 19 December 1912) was a Bengali novelist, playwright and essayist who played a special role in the nascent age of Bengali prose in the second half of the nineteenth century. He is famous and popularly beloved for the historical work Bishad Sindhu.
He was born in the village of Lahinipara in Chapra union of Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia district, then part of British India (present-day Bangladesh). His student life passed first in Kushtia, then at Padamdi in Faridpur, and finally in various schools of Krishnanagar. Most of his life was spent working in the Nawab estate of Faridpur. He also lived in Kolkata for some time.
Through his versatile talent, Mir Mosharraf Hossain composed novels, plays, farces, poetry and essays, inaugurating a rich tradition of Bengali literature written by Muslims in the modern age. He showed special distinction in composing books rich in literary flavor. The novel "Bishad Sindhu", written on the sorrowful events of Karbala, is his greatest work. His creative work inaugurated the tradition of modern literature in the Muslim society of Bengal.
It is the 170th birth anniversary of the literary figure Mir Mosharraf Hossain, creator of Bishad Sindhu. On this occasion, a two-day program of various events has been arranged from today at Mir's homestead in Lahinipara, Kumarkhali, organized by the Kushtia district administration with the support of the Ministry of Culture.
The program includes discussions, a cultural event featuring Mir Mosharraf songs, poetry recitation, the staging of plays, essay competitions and a traditional rural fair. The two-day festival will be formally inaugurated at 6 this evening by Abdur Rauf, Member of Parliament for the Kushtia-4 (Kumarkhali-Khoksa) constituency.
Kumarkhali Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md. Shahinuzzaman said that all preparations for the festival at Mir Mosharraf Hossain's homestead in Lahinipara have been completed.
On this day in 1847, Mir Mosharraf Hossain — the first Muslim shaper of modern Bengali prose literature, famed for Bishad Sindhu and Jamidar Darpan — was born at his maternal grandfather's home in Lahinipara village of Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia district. He breathed his last at Padamdi on 19 December 1911.
