Sardar Fazlul Karim

Sardar Fazlul Karim  was a scholar, academic, philosopher and essayist in Bangladesh. Born in a lower-middle-class family of Barisal in 1925, Sardar stood second at IA examination (Intermediate in Arts) but topped the first class in both his BA Honours and MA examinations in Philosophy from Dhaka University; he became a lecturer in 1946 at the age of 21.

Involved in progressive politics as a student, he was an "enemy" of the then Pakistan government and in four phases spent almost the full twenty-four years of Pakistani rule in jail. He was born on 1 May 1925 in Barisal, East Bengal (now Bangladesh) .