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Abdul Gaffar Choudhury

Died in 2022

Abdul Gaffar Choudhury was born on 12 December 1934 in Ulania, in what is now Barisal district, into a family of landowners. A graduate of the University of Dhaka in 1959, he was a journalist on several of the city's dailies and, during the 1971 war, contributed to Joy Bangla, Jugantar and the Anandabazar Patrika. Having arrived in London on 5 October 1974 to have his wife treated, he founded the newspaper Notun Din there and wrote regular columns for the Bangladeshi press and that of Calcutta. He died in London on 19 May 2022.

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