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English Kushtia
Greater Kushtia: the heart of history, culture and industry.
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Advocate Ajijur Rahman was born in 1943 in Shailgari village of Jiyarkhi union in Kushtia Sadar. He passed away on 14 February 2005. His father's name was Meherullah Sheikh and his mother's name was Amena Khatun. They were three brothers and two sisters.
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Poet, Writer, Essayist, Researcher, Educationist
Dr. Abul Ahsan Chowdhury, poet, writer, essayist, researcher and educationist, was born on 13 January 1953 at his paternal home in Majompur, Kushtia. His father was Fazlul Bari Chowdhury and his mother Saleha Khatun.
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Founder of Khater Ali College and the HN High School
Alhaj KM Abdul Khalek Chontu was elected a member of parliament for the Kushtia-3 constituency in the 1991 national parliament as a nominee of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party [BNP].
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Comrade Raushan Ali Some people are born into this world who devote their lives to the welfare of ordinary toiling working people rather than to changing their own fortunes. Though the number of such noble souls in this world is very small, the appearance of such rare-born people is exceedingly scarce in our society.
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More than Sheikh Roushan Ali's personal life, it was his political life that mattered most. When a politician reaches a certain height, his personal life pales beside his political life — this becomes clear simply by analyzing that political life. No part of his life was for himself; all of it was devoted to the country, the nation, and the oppressed, destitute, persecuted and exploited communities.
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In 1948 Roushan Ali was forced to go underground. From then on he stayed in Dhaka and carried on the party's work. At that time differences arose within the party because of the adoption of a left-adventurist line. Then, in 1949, by the decision of the party, a three-member provincial committee was formed with Comrade Sheikh Roushan Ali as its secretary. With him were Altaf Ali and Abdul Bari. Later, when Roushan Ali was arrested, Altaf Ali took over the responsibility of the party.
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Raushan Ali began discussing this war and the plans ahead within his own party. He advised everyone to move to a safe place, but he himself stayed on in the town. After fifteen days free of the enemy, on 14 April the Pakistani troops reoccupied the town amid wanton destruction and killing. In the meantime Raushan Ali crossed the border into West Bengal, where he held long discussions with his political friends of many years. Coming to Krishnanagar in Nadia district, he brought together the young men arriving from Bangladesh and arranged armed training so that they could join the War of Liberation.
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His forefathers came from Bethua Dahari in Nadia. They were the owners of the Mohammad Shahi pargana; Gaus Bila was its old name, Ghosh Bila its present name. There were two accomplished brothers, one of whom was Baghu Dewan. His mazar (shrine) is at Alampur; the other brother's mazar is at Ghosh Bila, and his name was Faiz Uddin.
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Mir Anisuzzaman was born on 17 March 1947 at Mir Bari in Battail, in the Jagati union of Kushtia. In 1952 Mir Anisuzzaman began his first life of schooling at a primary school. In 1957 he was at Carmichael School in Rangpur, and from 1958 to 1964 he passed the secondary examination from West End High School, Azimpur, Dhaka. In 1967 he passed the higher secondary from Jagannath College, Dhaka, and in 1970 his B.Com from the University of Dhaka. In 1975 he received training at RFD-GQ Ltd., Surrey, and in 1989 at Dunlop Beaufort Ltd., England, in the inspection and servicing of safety equipment for seagoing ships.
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Among the oldest and traditional families of Kushtia, the family of Khondokar Lutfel Haque is one. Khondokar Lutfel Haque was one of the greatest practitioners of classical music and an artist of high calibre. He was a social worker. He himself bore the burden of poor and meritorious students' education and arranged for them to stay and eat at his own home. He was a man of progressive thinking and a free mind. He loved culturally minded people very much and brought up his own children in the same mould.
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Mohammad Nurul Haque was known as a successful educationist and a man devoted to public service. He was born on 17 Srabon 1322 (1 August 1915 AD) into a respected family in Mohammadpur village of Gangni thana in present-day Meherpur district. His father's name was Mujib Uddin Biswas and his mother was Mosa Jiuzan Nesa.
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The Gorai River flows right beside Kushtia town. The second embankment built to protect Kushtia town is named the "Rain-week Jagneshwar Embankment". In one word it can be called this town's embankment of life. People of every profession in the town come to this embankment for recreation. All day long its green-fringed sides ring with the murmuring sound of the river. Across the river you can see Haripur village. When the river holds water, countless little fish can be seen darting about.