Farrukh Ahmad

Farrukh Ahmad was born on 10 June 1918 in Majhail, in what is now Magura district, into a well-off Muslim family; his father was a police inspector. He attended Khulna district school, Ripon College and the Scottish Church College in Calcutta, without completing his degree, and as a young man was drawn to the radical humanism of M. N. Roy and to the left. From 1945 he edited the monthly Mohammadi, then in 1947 joined Radio Pakistan in Dhaka, where he stayed until his death on 19 October 1974. He received the Bangla Academy prize in 1960.

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• PoetryThe Sailor of the Seven Seasসাত সাগরের মাঝিFarrukh Ahmad · 1944Literature