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RAMA-DEATH
Birangana Rama Chowdhury no more
CHATTOGRAM, Sep 3, 2018 (BSS) – Renowned writer and Liberation War heroine Rama Chowdhury passed away in a city hospital early today.
She was 79.
“Chowdhury breathed her last at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH)
at 4.40 am due to old age complications,” Alauddin Khokon, her book’s
publisher and long time friend, told BSS.
She had been sufferings from diabetes, high blood pressure and Asthma for
long and was undergoing treatment at CMCH since January last, he said.
She was put on life support at ICU around 11 last night after her
condition deteriorated, he added.
Her body was kept at the Chattogram Central Shaheed Minar at 11 am today
as people from all walks of life can pay their last respects to her.
She will be cremated at her village home at Popadiya village in Boalkhali
upazila of the district, khokan added.
Rama Chowdhury lost her husband and two children in the war of liberation in
1971. The Pakistani occupied military personnel also raped her after
attacking her home and set the house on fire.
Born on October 14 in 1936, Chowdhury obtained her graduation degree in
Bangla Literature from Dhaka University in 1961 and choose to teaching
profession.
She authored 18 books including “Ekattarer Jononi’, ‘Ek Hazar Ek Din
Japoner Poddo’ and ‘Bhab Boichitre Rabindranath’.
She earned fame for writing her book “Ekattarer Jononi.
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