Anisuzzaman laid to eternal rest

National Professor DrAnisuzzaman was laid to eternal rest at Azimpur graveyard on Friday morning.

Volunteers of Al-MarkazulIslami, an organisation that has been performing funeral rituals for the patients who die from Covid-19, conducted his last rites around 10.30am.

Earlier, the Dhaka district administration gave him guard of honour.

DrAnisuzzaman’s son AnandaZaman confirmed the matter.He also said that tests confirmed his father had Covid-19.

The national professor breathed his last around 5pm on Thursday at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) while undergoing treatment there.

On April 27, Professor DrAnisuzzaman was admitted to Universal Cardiac Hospital with heart problems and old age complications.

Later on May 9, Anisuzzaman was shifted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) from Universal Cardiac Hospital as his health condition deteriorated.
DrAnisuzzaman is an eminent educator, writer and Emeritus Professor of Bangla language and literature department at Dhaka University.

He participated in the Language Movement, the 1969 Mass Upsurge and the Liberation War. After the independence, he became a member of the National Education Commission with Kudrat-E-Khuda as its chief.

 

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