Kabir Chowdhury

Kabir Chowdhury (died on 13 December 2011) was Bangladeshi academic, essayist, materialist, translator, cultural worker and civil society activist. Chowdhury has written extensively on world's famous writers and painters.

He has also written extensively on peace and conflict resolution through discussion and has tried to promote these values by his work as a teacher and as an administrator.

 He was inducted as National Professor of Bangladesh in 1998. Chowdhury was a member of the Presidium of the Bangladesh World Peace Council and headed the Bangladesh-Soviet Friendship Society for over a decade.

He was the president of the Bangladesh Vidyasagar Society and chairman of the Advisory Council of Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee (Committee for Resisting the Killers and Collaborators of 1971).

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