PARAGRAPH / ZAHIR RAIHAN & ZAINUL ABEDIN

 PARAGRAPH / ZAHIR RAIHAN & ZAINUL ABEDIN

1. ZAHIR RAIHAN

Everybody imitates his or her favourite personality to build up his/her own dream, career and personality. I have also my favourite personality. He is Zahir Raihan. Thought I have not seen him in real life as I belong to the post Liberation War generation. I have read many things about him. His contribution to our Liberation War has enthralled me. He has born on 19 August 1935 in the village of Majupur, in Feni district. He was an active worker of the language movement. While he was a student he joined the procession of our language movement despite a ban on such activities. Though he was arrested several times for such kind of activities, his spirit never faded. He took an active part in the mass movement in 1969. In1971, he joined the Liberation War. His dream of a free country always inspired me. He made films on real incidents highlighting the savagery of the Pakistan army and made people well aware of our great sacrifice in the Liberation War. Very unfortunately this great intellectual and patriotic hero was captured and killed after the independence. His dream, personality, uncompromising spirit always inspire me. Hence, he is my favourite personality, it is my unadulterated belief that his personality is really imitative to the present generation.

2.  ZAINUL ABEDIN

Zainul Abedin is the pioneer of Bangladeshi modern art. He is praised all over the world for his Bengal `Famine Sketches'. He developed a skill in art from his childhood. He was given the title of Shilpacharya for his artistic qualities. The river Brahmaputra had great influence on his art. Zainul Abedin was born at a village in Kishoregonj in 1914. His father’s name was Jamir Uddin. He was a police officer. He had a great thirst for drawing. For this reason, he got himself admitted into Calcutta Government Art College in 1933. In 1938 he stood first class first from the college. In the same year he was awarded Gold Medal in all India Art Exhibition. He drew a lot of pictures on Famine of the Second World War in 1939 which earned world wide reputation for him. In 1948 he founded the Dhaka Art Institution. He was appointed principal in 1949 of this institution. He retired from this institution in 1967. Zainul Abedin is considered the founding father of Bangladeshi art. He was an artist of outstanding talent and earned international reputation. For his artistic and visionary qualities, he is referred to as Shilpacharya meaning ‘great teacher of art’ in Bangladesh. He designed the pages of the Constitution of Bangladesh. He founded the Folk Art Museum at Sonargoan, and also Zainul Abedin Shangrahasala, a gallery of his own works in Mymensing in 1975. He died in 1976. Howerver, whatever Zainul Abedin did demands that he is the greatest of all artists of all ages.