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Saturday, June 27, 2009

RE: [chottala.com] RE: Thank you for your editorial on Daily noyadiganta




 Dear Prof. Mohitul Alam
           I received the following from Syed Aslam. I thank Syed Aslam for sending the following about late Mahbubul Alam and forward the same to you. Take care.
                                                          Moyeenul Alam, Toronto

Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:49:57 -0400
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] RE: Thank you for your editorial on Daily noyadiganta
From: syed.aslam3@gmail.com
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com; khabor@yahoogroups.com; notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com; reform-bd@yahoogroups.com; amra-bangladesi@yahoogroups.com; SonarBangladesh@yahoogroups.com

Mahbubul Alam

Mahbubul Alam, who was seventy-three in 1971 thought it was the opportunity of a lifetime to participate in the nation's struggle for independence. Alam was a professional soldier in the First World War, later joining the British Army (39 Bangali Paltan) and going to Mesopotamia (Iraq) where the British Army was fighting to regain the territories lost to the Turks at the Battle of Kuttul Amara. Bangali Paltan was the same regiment which our national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam also joined, though he did not have to go beyond Karachi. He was a family friend of Mahbubul Alam and had close ties with his younger brother, Didarul Alam. When Kazi Nazrul Islam visited Chittagong in 1929, he spent a night with the Alam family at Fatehabad, a small village in Hathazari. Later, Alam narrated his experience as a young soldier, who had seen action in a far away place in his remarkable book Paltan Jiboner Smriti (Memories of the Paltan Life). writes Professor Abdul Mannan, a former Vice-chancellor of Chittagong University

Please read about Mr. Mahbubul Alam at Banglapedia
 
 
in this connection.:
Alam, Mahbub-ul (1898-1981) fiction writer and journalist, was born on 1 May 1898 at his maternal uncle's residence in Fatepur village in chittagong district. His father, Nasiruddin, was a moulvi of the same village.
 

Mahbub-ul Alam passed the Entrance Examination in 1916 from Fateyabad M E School and then studied at Chittagong College. In 1917, during the First World War, he joined a Bengali platoon and was sent to Mesopotamia. In 1919, at the end of the war, he returned home and, in 1920, became Sub-Registrar. He was subsequently promoted to District Sub-Registrar, District Registrar, and Inspector of Registration.

After retiring in 1954, he started publishing the weekly Jamana (1954) from Chittagong. His first book, Paltan Jibaner Smriti, published in 1940, was an autobiography describing his life as a soldier. He also wrote two other memoirs: Burmar Hangama (1940) and Momener Jabanbandi (1946). His short stories, which have literary merit, are included in Tajia (1946), and Pancha Anna (1953). His one novel is Mafizan (1946). Among his humorous writings are Gofsandesh (1953), Indonesia (1959), Turkey (1960), and Saudi Arabia (1960). He also wrote a history of Chittagong titled Chattagramer Itihas (3 vols, 1947-1950), and a history of freedom struggles in Bengal, Bangalir Muktiyuddher Itibrtta (4 vols).

Mahbub-ul Alam received several awards, including Bangla Academy Award (1965), Pride of Performance (1967) and Ekushey Padak (1978). He died in Chittagong on 7 August 1981. [Bimal Guha]

Sent by:
 
Syed Aslam
 
 
 

 
On 6/26/09, <> wrote:


          Thank you for your kind letter and for addressing me as a "young man". In fact, I am 72 years old, still in workable health and regulalrly writing columns in newspapers. My name is Moyeenul Alam, to dispel your confusion.
           I am one of six unworthy sons of late Mahbubul Alam who wrote and published in 1974 the first book about history of Bangladesh liberation " Bangalir mukti juddher etibritto". handed over the book to Sheikh Mujib who appreciated my father's work of writing the book at his age of 76. My father Mahbubul Alam was one of the most respected writers in Pakistan and in Bangladesh. He was awarded President's Pride of Performance Medal for Literature in 1965 in Pakistan. In Bangladesh he was awarded Ekushey Padak for Literature. His most famous books are "Momenayr Jabanbondi" (which is read in B.A. Bengali Honours classes in universities), and "Paltan Jibanayr Smriti" which is the first book written in Bengali language on military experiences of a Bengali soldier. Mahbubul Alam fought under British Indian Army in Iraq for three years from 1915-1918 in the first World War. Mahbubul Alam died in Chittagong in 1981 at the age of 83.
           I began journalism in Chittagong in 1956. From 1959 I was the Resident Representative of Daily Ittefaq in Chittagong for 36 years until I migrated to Canada in 1995. Sheikh Mujib knew me well as a journalist and gave me the privilege to meet him in private whenever I wanted even during his most busy schedules.
           I hope your curiosity will be satisfied. You might like to read my another write-up entitled "CEC tarotomiyoti bujhThank you again for writing me,
                                                                Yours sincerely
                                                                Moyeenul Alam  

Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:32:19 -0700
From: nil_sh1998@yahoo.com
Subject: Thank you for your editorial on Daily noyadiganta
To: moyeenulalam@hotmail.com
CC: amohsin@ips.com.sa

Hi young man,
 
First take my salam, I am Mohsin from Saudi Arabia, I just read your editorial, I don't know I how express my feeling. It is a very charming help full for today's discussion. You bring & focus some impotent information which is feel us true and describes the situation for that time. I understand now lot of thing when I read your editorial. I am thanks full for all the for your valuable write.
 
I am praying your long life to God.
 
Dear, a question for you, and hoping ans. Please reply me.
You mentioned that In 1974 the first book about history of Bangladesh liberation " Bangalir mukti juddher etibritto" write by Mahbubul Alam, you mentioned at the end that when you handover the book Mujib appreciate your father who was 76 yrs old. what's is your father name please ans. me and if any link for know about mahbubul alam please send me. I am confuse here who is writer and who is your respected father is both are same.
 
 
Thank your for your valuable editorial. Plase forgive me for wrong english
 
 
 
Mohsin
Saudi Arabia





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