Serajul Islam Choudhury

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Serajul Islam Choudhury
সিরাজুল ইসলাম চৌধুরী
Choudhury at the University of Dhaka (Feb 2015)
Born	(1936-06-23) 23 June 1936 Baroikhali village, Sreenagar, Munshiganj District, Bengal Presidency, British India
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Education	Ph.D.
Alma mater	University of Dhaka The University of Leeds Leicester University
Spouse	Nazma Jesmin Choudhury
Children	Rownak Ara Choudhury Sharmin Choudhury
Parents	Hafizuddin Chowdhury (father) Asia Khatun (mother)
Relatives	Amanul Islam Chowdhury (brother)

iA.Salam Mallik is a Bangladeshi well-Known and dynamic English Lecturer.He was born on the 10th October in 1985 at the village named Pathakata under Mathabaria upozilla in Pirojpur( Mathbaria (Bengali: মঠবাড়িয়া) is an upazila of Pirojpur District in the Division of Barisal, Bangladesh).He teaches English at the very begining of class Eight student.His life is full mystery.His father name is Md Ashrab Ali Mallik who died prematurely while Mr.A Salam Mallik was only one month age ,that is to say, 30 days only. As he was an orphan boy, he had to struggle a lot to keep his body with soul.He leads his life in a very simple way keeping his head above water.He passed S.S.C Examination in 2002 from K.M.Yousuf Ali Secondary high school under Barisha Education Board obtaning First Division equivalent marks.He also passed H.S.C Examination in 2004 from Mathbaria Govt.College under Barisha Education Board obtaning another First Division equivalent marks.Then he admitted into Govt. P.C.College ,Bagerhat,Khulna in 2004 of the department of English.He completed his B.A Honours in English in 2008 from Govt.P.C.College ,Bagerhat,Khulna, under National University obtaining higher Second Class equivalent marks.During his staying at Bagerhat at the time of Honours Second Year , he joined as an Assistant English Teacher in 2007 in local Secondary High School named AL-Islah Academy Bagerhat, Khulna. He has been serving there as an Assistant English Teacher with a lot of goodwill since 2007 till 2010. After completing his B.A. Honours in English from Bagerhat Govt.P.C.College ,he left that city and went to Dhaka in the hope of getting admision into Dhaka College.After going to Dhaka, he got admitted into his desired Dhaka College masters in English.He also completed his Masters Degree in English (Phonetix, Literature & Languistic ) in 2009 from Dhaka College under National University obtaining another Second Class equivalent marks.He completed his Diploma in Computer Science in 2013 under Technical Board in Bangladesh getting First Division with Star Marks.He joined as a residential Teacher in ETC Residential School & College at Mohammadpur inDhaka.He also joined as a Lecturer of the department in English in 2010 in Bangladesh Ideal College at Khilgaon branch in Dhaka.He has been serving as a Lecturer in English in Bangladesh Ideal School and College since 2010 till 2016.Then in the same year in December he joined as an Assistant English Teacher at Tushkali Union Tofel Akon Memorial Secondary High School,Mathbaria,Pirojpur.He has been serving there with a lot of goodwill. In same time he also got the same job at Ghudighat Sorogini High School , Mathbaria,Pirojpur.But he didn't joined that institution.After a long journey and struggle ultimately he was able to join as an Assistant English Teacher at the K.M.Latif Institution, Mathbaria,Pirojpur, on the 1st April in 2021.

His mother nane is Jahura khatun who is a very kind

Early life and education

Choudhury was born in the village of Baroikhali under the Sreenagar thana in the district of Munshigonj. He is the eldest of the nine brothers and four sisters to their parents Hafizuddin Chowdhury and Asia Khatun. In his early life, he liked to build his career as a novelist, but his father wanted him to join the civil service after a degree in Economics. On a note of compromise, he enrolled with the English department at the University of Dhaka after an intermediate of arts degree, obtained in 1952 from Notre Dame College, preceded by his matriculation from St. Gregory's High School in 1950. He received his MA degree in 1956 and taught briefly at Haraganga College in Munshiganj and Jagannath College in Dhaka. He completed his post-graduate diploma in English Studies at The University of Leeds , the UK and obtained his doctorate in English from Leicester University, the UK.

Career

Choudhury joined as a lecturer the Department of English, Dhaka University, in 1957, planning also to be a writer. He decided not to become a bureaucrat which many around him were becoming then. He stated two reasons why he wanted to be a writer: first, his work at the university, which would ensure that he would not be transferred from place to place and which would allow him time to read and write a lot; and, second, his temperament. In more than four decades that followed, he taught students, wrote essays, headed the department, became Dean, spawned off several academic and research projects, initiated doctoral dissertation guidance at the department, started periodicals, founded study centers, and remained involved in university politics. Choudhury first initiated to offer the Ph.D. degree in English at Dhaka University. He edited journals, the university journals of arts and letters, in Bangla and English — Dhaka Visvavidyalay Patrika for 15 years and Dhaka University Studies for nine years. He founded the Visvavidyalay Patrika. Choudhury also founded a national views weekly called Somoy and co-edited it with Azfar Hussain, Zaheda Ahmad et al, from the early to the mid-1990s. He founded the University Book Centre in 1978 and the Centre for Advanced Research in Humanities in 1986. In keeping with the spirit, he now runs a centre called Samaj Rupantar Adhyayan Kendra (Centre for Social Transformation Studies), which works towards waking people up to a democracy which would mean ‘equality of rights and opportunities. Rights being equal would not mean anything unless the opportunities remain equal.’

On nationalism

A leading proponent of strategic and defensive nationalism in Bangladesh, Choudhury wrote profusely on the subject from the perspective of Bangladesh's liberation struggle. To him, nationalism is a very important issue having both positive and negative sides. The positive side is that it unites a nation through patriotism. Patriotism is indispensable for collective development. It reduces alienation and makes people aware and sensitive about their countrymen. Nationalism has both external and internal enemies. External enemies attack and try to capture the nation. Now, global capitalism is carrying out this aggression. Capitalism has given birth to imperialism, which is the deadliest enemy of the people. The internal enemy of nationalism is national parochialism, blindness and pride. It has an inner tendency of becoming autocratic. It looks for a leader and develops fascism by making a person the only leader of the people. These are the weaknesses of nationalism. But the greatest internal enemy of nationalism is deprivation. Within the nation there is class deprivation. This gap stands on the way of creating unity. Rich people become rulers and exploit the poor. They agitate the peoplewith nationalist euphoria to sideline the reality of class difference. Class deprivation is a result of capitalism. So that means capitalism attacks us from both within and outside. From outside, it is aggressive and from within, it is subversive.

Personal life

Choudhury was married to Nazma Jesmin Choudhury. She was a professor the University of Dhaka. Their children are Rownak Ara Choudhury and Sharmin Choudhury.

Awards

• Ekushey Padak
• Bangla Academy Literary Award
• University of Dhaka Gold Medal in Research
• Kazi Mahbubullah Award
• Bangladesh Writers AWard
• Abdur Rahman Choudhury Award

Selected publications

Choudhury's books in the Bengali language:

• Anveshana
• Nirbachita Prabandha (1999)
• Rashtra o Samskrti (1993)
• Nazrul Islam: Poet and More (1994) [Nazrul Institute]
• Bangalir Jaya Parajaya (1994)
• Apanajana (1992)

Choudhury's books in the English:

• —— (1975). The Moral Imagination of Joseph Conrad. University of Dhaka. OCLC 2875762.
• —— (1981). The Enemy Territory: A Study of Evil in D. H. Lawrence. University of Dhaka. OCLC 988367614.
• —— (2002). Middle Class and the Social Revolution in Bengal: An Incomplete Agenda. University Press. OCLC 603857008.