Sanjida Khatun no more

Rabindra sangeet exponent and one of founders of the Chhayanaut Sanjida Khatun is no more.

She passed away at 3:00pm on Tuesday at Square Hospital in the city.  

Laisa Ahmad Lisa, her daughter-in-law and general secretary of Chhayanaut, confirmed the matter.

She was suffering from diabetes, pneumonia and kidney disease for a long time. She had been hospitalized for the past week. 

Sanjida Khatun was born on April 4, 1933. Her father Kazi Motahar Hossain was a national professor and mother Sajeda Khatun was a housewife. 

She  graduated from the Dhaka University in 1954 in Bengali Language and Literature, completed her master's degree from Visva-Bharati University in India in 1955, and completed her PhD in 1978.

She started her career as a teacher in the Bengali department of Dhaka University.

Her endless contributions, in upholding the spirit of liberal thinking, are vividly reflected in her work and her lifelong philosophy.

In 2021, she was also honoured with the Padma Shri, considered the fourth highest civilian award in India.

Dr Sanjida Khatun was also one of the founders of Bangladesh Mukti Sangrami Shilpi Sangstha during the Liberation War in 1971 and Chhayanaut in the early 1960s.