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style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1897</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Shailkupa_Upazila" title="Shailkupa Upazila">Monoharpur</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bengal_Presidency" title="Bengal Presidency">Bengal</a>, <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">British India</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">13 October 1964<span style="display:none">(1964-10-13)</span> (aged 66–67)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Dacca" class="mw-redirect" title="Dacca">Dacca</a>, <a href="/wiki/East_Pakistan" title="East Pakistan">East Pakistan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">British Indian (1897-1947)<br />Pakistani (1947-1964)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">7 (including <a href="/wiki/Mustafa_Monwar" title="Mustafa Monwar">Mustafa Monwar</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Father</th><td class="infobox-data">Golam Rabbani</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Farida_Majid" title="Farida Majid">Farida Majid</a> (granddaughter)<br /><a href="/wiki/Nafees_Bin_Zafar" title="Nafees Bin Zafar">Nafees Bin Zafar</a> (great-grandson)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Golam Mostofa</b> (<a href="/wiki/Bengali_language" title="Bengali language">Bengali</a>: <span lang="bn">গোলাম মোস্তফা</span>; 1897 – 13 October 1964) was a <a href="/wiki/Pakistanis" title="Pakistanis">Pakistani</a> <a href="/wiki/Bengali_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Bengali people">Bengali</a> writer and poet. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Golam_Mostofa_(poet)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mostofa was born in 1897 in the village of Manoharpur in <a href="/wiki/Shailkupa_Upazila" title="Shailkupa Upazila">Shailkupa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jhenaidah_District" title="Jhenaidah District">Jhenaidah</a>, then part of the <a href="/wiki/Bengal_Presidency" title="Bengal Presidency">Bengal Presidency</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Jessore_District" title="Jessore District">Jessore District</a> (now part of <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh" title="Bangladesh">Bangladesh</a>). He belonged to a <a href="/wiki/Bengali_Muslim" class="mw-redirect" title="Bengali Muslim">Bengali Muslim</a> family of literature-enthusiasts proficient in Bengali, <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Farsi" class="mw-redirect" title="Farsi">Persian</a>. His father, Golam Rabbani, and his grandfather, <a href="/wiki/Qadi" title="Qadi">Qazi</a> Golam Sarwar, were both <a href="/wiki/Folk_poetry" title="Folk poetry">folk poets</a>. </p><p>Mostofa finished his primary education in Damukdia, then spent two years studying in Fazilpur. He passed the Entrance exam in 1913 from Shailkupa High School.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He passed BA from <a href="/wiki/Surendranath_College" title="Surendranath College">Ripon College</a> in 1918 and BT from David Hare Training College in 1922. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Golam_Mostofa_(poet)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE_(%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%99%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE_%28%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%99%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%29.jpg/220px-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE_%28%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%99%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="283" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%BE_%28%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%99%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%29.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="233" data-file-height="300" /></a><figcaption>Golam Mostofa</figcaption></figure> <p>Mostofa started teaching at <a href="/wiki/Barrackpore" title="Barrackpore">Barrackpore</a> Government High School in January 1920. Four years later, he transferred to the Calcutta Hare School and later the <a href="/wiki/Calcutta_Madrasa" class="mw-redirect" title="Calcutta Madrasa">Calcutta Madrasa</a>. He became the Deputy Head at the Baliganj Government Demonstration High School, eventually become the first Muslim headmaster of the school. In 1940, he moved to <a href="/wiki/Bankura" title="Bankura">Bankura</a> District School and numerous other schools, before retiring as headmaster of <a href="/wiki/Faridpur_District" title="Faridpur District">Faridpur Zila</a> School in 1949. </p><p>He was the secretary of the <a href="/wiki/East_Bengal" title="East Bengal">East Bengal</a> Government's Language Reform Committee, formed in 1949. He believed in the <a href="/wiki/Two-nation_theory" title="Two-nation theory">two-nation theory</a> that formed the basis for the ideals of <a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, and supported <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> as Pakistan's state language during the <a href="/wiki/Bengali_language_movement" title="Bengali language movement">Language Movement</a> of 1952.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Islamic heritage was one of his inspirations. His book <i>Biswanabi</i> (1942), a biography based on the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, provided him with wide recognition.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Golam_Mostofa_(poet)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Letter_Moza.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Letter_Moza.jpg/220px-Letter_Moza.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Letter_Moza.jpg/330px-Letter_Moza.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Letter_Moza.jpg/440px-Letter_Moza.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1359" data-file-height="976" /></a><figcaption>A letter sent to <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Mozammel_Huq" title="Mohammad Mozammel Huq">Mohammad Mozammel Huq</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Bangiya_Mussalman_Sahitya_Samiti" title="Bangiya Mussalman Sahitya Samiti">Bengal Muslim Literary Society</a> from Nobel laureate <a href="/wiki/Rabindranath_Tagore" title="Rabindranath Tagore">Rabindranath Tagore</a> after the release of Mostofa's <i>Islam and Rabindranath</i> article.</figcaption></figure> <p>Mostofa wrote his first poem, <i><a href="/wiki/Edirne" title="Edirne">Adrianople</a> Uddhar</i>, in tenth grade, which got published by <a href="/wiki/The_Mohammadi" title="The Mohammadi">The Mohammadi</a>. After that, he wrote for forty-eight years. His works included poetry, biographies, novels, articles and translations of <a href="/wiki/Arabic" title="Arabic">Arabic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> works. </p><p>Poetry: </p> <ul><li>Roktorag (1924)</li> <li>Khoshroz (1929)</li> <li>Kabbo Kahini (1932)</li> <li>Sahara (1936)</li> <li>Hasnahena (1938)</li> <li>Bulbulistan (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Zindabad_(anthem)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Zindabad (anthem)">Tarana-i-Pakistan</a> (1956)</li> <li>Bani Adam (1958)</li> <li>Geeti Shonchalon (1968)</li> <li>Gulistan</li> <li>Prarthona</li> <li>Kishore</li> <li>Qobor</li> <li>He Khoda Doyamoy Rahmanur Rahim</li> <li>Badshah Tumi Deen O Duniyar, Nikhiler Chiro Shundor Srishti</li> <li>Amar Muhammad Rasul</li></ul> <dl><dt>Biography</dt></dl> <ul><li>Bishwanabi (1942)</li></ul> <dl><dt>Novels</dt></dl> <ul><li>Ruper Nesha</li> <li>Bhangabuk</li> <li>Ek Mon Ek Pran</li></ul> <dl><dt>Others</dt></dl> <ul><li>Islam O Communism (1946)</li> <li>Islame Jehad (1947)</li> <li>Amar Chintadhara (1952)</li> <li>Maru Dulal</li></ul> <dl><dt>Translations</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Musaddas" title="Musaddas">Musaddas</a>-e-<a href="/wiki/Altaf_Hussain_Hali" title="Altaf Hussain Hali">Hali</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Iqbal" title="Muhammad Iqbal">Kalam-e-Iqbal</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shikwa_and_Jawab-e-Shikwa" title="Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa">Shikwa O Jowab-e-Shikwa</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Al Quran</a> (1958)</li> <li>Joy Porajoy (<a href="/wiki/Ikhwan_As-Safa" class="mw-redirect" title="Ikhwan As-Safa">Ikhwan As-Safa</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Golam_Mostofa_(poet)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sitara-i-Imtiaz" title="Sitara-i-Imtiaz">Sitara-i-Imtiaz</a></li> <li>President Medal <sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words"><span title="The material near this tag possibly uses too vague attribution or weasel words. (April 2020)">which?</span></a></i>]</sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Golam_Mostofa_(poet)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mostafa had four sons and three daughters. One of the sons, <a href="/wiki/Mostafa_Monowar" class="mw-redirect" title="Mostafa Monowar">Mostafa Monowar</a>, became a puppeteer and former director general of the state-run <a href="/wiki/Bangladesh_Television" title="Bangladesh Television">Bangladesh Television</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kobi Golam Mostafa's youngest son Mostafa Farooq (Pasha) was the first pianist in Bangladesh. He studied in Royal College of Music, London, England. In the year of celebration of 100-anniversary of Karol Szymanowski in Poland, the Minister of Culture and Art awarded Farooq a prestigious commemorial medal as a proof of appreciation for introducing the Polish Classical music to the nation. He came back to Bangladesh after completing his bachelor's in Music and started his profession as a Music Teacher. </p><p>Kobi Golam Mostafa is the grandfather of Syed Mainul Hossain, an architect who designed <a href="/wiki/Jatiyo_Smriti_Soudho" class="mw-redirect" title="Jatiyo Smriti Soudho">Jatiyo Smriti Soudho</a> at <a href="/wiki/Savar" title="Savar">Savar</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Farida_Majid" title="Farida Majid">Farida Majid</a>, a poet and academic.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is the great-grandfather of Bangladeshi software engineer and <a href="/wiki/Academy_Scientific_and_Technical_Award" title="Academy Scientific and Technical Award">Academy Scientific and Technical Award</a> winner <a href="/wiki/Nafees_Bin_Zafar" title="Nafees Bin Zafar">Nafees Bin Zafar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Golam_Mostofa_(poet)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death and legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mostafa died on 13 October 1964 at the age of 67, of cerebral thrombosis.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, the ancestral home of Mostafa in <a href="/wiki/Jhenidah" class="mw-redirect" title="Jhenidah">Jhenaidah</a> was under threat from two land grabbers, who claimed partial ownership of the land.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many artifacts used by Mostofa and valuable photographs drawn by his second son Mostafa Aziz, sole artist of the first pencil sketch of the poet, were found to be in a pitiable condition at the village. Though <i>Kabi Golam Mustafa Memorial Library</i> received a concrete building at the yard of the poet's house in 2008 implemented by the Zila Parishad, Jhenidah, at a cost of Tk 1.70 million, there are, virtually, no reading materials were found to be there. Some parental property of the poet, including his paternal land and trees are secretly being sold, according to reliable sources.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Golam_Mostofa_(poet)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:0-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://today.thefinancialexpress.com.bd/country/poet-golam-mustafas-ancestral-house-in-ruins-50th-death-anniversary-observed?date=14-10-2014">"Poet Golam Mustafa's ancestral house in ruins: 50th death anniversary observed"</a>. <i>The Financial Express</i>. 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