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Sikander Abu Zafar

Died in 1975

Sikandar Abu Zafar was born on 19 March 1918 or 1919, depending on the sources, in Tentulia, in the district of Satkhira. After studies at Ripon College in Calcutta, he worked in the military administration and in a press agency, then, settled in Dhaka in 1950, on several daily newspapers. In 1958 he founded a printing house and a publishing house, and from 1959 to 1970 edited the review Samakal. In 1971, in Calcutta, he composed songs of struggle, including Amader sangram chalbei. He died in Dhaka on 5 August 1975.

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