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English Kushtia
Greater Kushtia: the heart of history, culture and industry.
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M. A. Rahim (born: 8 January 1931 – died: 7 September 1987) was the first, and twice successive, chairman of Kushtia pourashava (municipality) elected by the people's direct vote after the country's independence. It may be noted that in his personal life the amiable, benevolent and genial M. A. Rahim was the first elected municipal chairman of independent Bangladesh. On 8 January 1931 he was born into the family of the eminent social worker Jeher Ali Mondal and Moijan Nesa of Aruapara in Kushtia town.
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Kochi Khandaker (born 29 September 1964) From birth to death, that, in short, is life. Though brief, life is beautiful after all. Yet at times it can also be cruel. That is nature's play, and in that play there are bound to be wins and losses. But does life stop for that? No, it does not. Life goes on at its own pace. To hold on to that pace there exists a world of imagination called the mind — a world that has no age. It lives on for countless years. The body may die, but the mind knows no death.
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On this day, 11 December 1971, the freedom fighters of Kushtia district fought bloody battles — 22 of them, big and small — and liberated Kushtia from the hands of the Pakistani forces. Against the marauding Pakistani troops armed with state-of-the-art weapons, the brave young Bengali freedom fighters fought with boundless valour and boundless courage, and succeeded in driving the Pakistani occupiers out of the sacred soil of Kushtia and freeing it. That day the sky over Kushtia rang with the soul-stirring slogan of "Joy Bangla" from thousands upon thousands of people yearning for freedom.
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Waliul Bari Chowdhury, the pioneer of modern journalism
Journalist Alhaj Waliul Bari Chowdhury was the editor of 'Swadhin Bangla', the first newspaper published from a liberated zone during Bangladesh's Liberation War, and the publisher and editor of the weekly 'Ispat' published from the greater Kushtia region and of the pre-independence weekly 'Mashal'.
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It was engineer Kamrul Islam Siddiqui - noted social worker, Liberation War organizer, internationally renowned engineer and founder of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) - who showed the people of Kushtia the dream of building a tourist city.
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Khalid Hossain (born 4 December 1935 - died 22 May 2019) was a Bengali Nazrul Sangeet singer and Nazrul researcher. He was renowned for singing Nazrul's Islamic songs. Six of his Nazrul Sangeet albums and 12 Islamic song albums were released. For his contribution to music, in 2000 he was honoured with the Ekushey Padak, the second-highest civilian award given by the Government of Bangladesh.
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Home to the happiest people in Bangladesh and its 13th largest city is Kushtia town. The people of Kushtia are capable of producing every crop. The Kushtia region is full of rivers and streams, khals and beels, haors and baors, and various water bodies. And for that reason fish farming, too, shows great success.
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Kanai Lal Sharma (born 7 November 1930, died 19 August 2019) was born in the village of Shaldaha in the Hatsh Haripur union of Kushtia. His father's name was the late Abhimanyu Sharma. Recalling the days bound up with the successes he left behind, this veteran swimmer says: he was then five or six years old. One day his father was returning home by boat across the Gorai river. In a storm the boat sank in mid-river. Many people died. By great fortune Kanai Lal Sharma's father Abhimanyu Sharma survived.
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In 1816 and 1819 the British government enacted laws levying taxes for local ferry management and maintenance and for the construction and repair of roads and bridges. After the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, when the country's economy and law and order deteriorated, the British government realized the need for local government institutions and, in 1870, enacted the Bengal Chaukidari Act.
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"I want to spend the last days of my life in Kushtia." The words were those of the renowned writer Annadashankar Ray — and not only his: many poets, writers and luminaries have said the same. Around the soil and the people of the ancient land of Kushtia they have written many stories and tales.
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The spiritual saint Mansur Shah Chishti is the pir of the Chishtia Niamatia tariqa. In the realm of Ilm-e Ma'refat he is known as a person of the highest attainment. Through his spirituality he still lives on among his devotees and admirers at home and abroad.
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Raju Ahmed (born 1939 - died 11 December 1972) was born on 28 Baishakh 1348 of the Bengali era at Amlapara in Kushtia. He was not only a powerful actor; as a freedom fighter he also played an outstanding role in the resolve to free the motherland, and on the other hand he was a painter.