Farrukh Ahmed

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Farrukh Ahmed was born in 1918 in the village of Majhail in Sreepur upazila of Magura. His father Syed Hatem Ali was a police inspector. Farrukh Ahmed's mother's name is Raushan Akhtar.

Farrukh Ahmad matriculated from Khulna Zilla School in 1938 and I.A. from Ripon College, Calcutta in 1939. Passed. He then began studying philosophy and English literature at the Scottish Church College. As a student, he became involved in leftist politics. However, his political beliefs changed in the 1940s. He supported the partition of India and the Pakistan movement.

Farrukh Ahmed's career began in Kolkata. He worked in the IG Prison Office in 1943, in the Civil Supplies in 1944 and in a firm in Jalpaiguri in 1948. In 1945, he became the acting editor of the monthly 'Mohammadi'. But in the end he got a permanent job in Dhaka Betar. After the partition of the country in 1947, Farrukh Ahmed moved from Kolkata to Dhaka and joined Dhaka Betar.He worked here first as a casual and later as a regular staff artist till 1982. Farrukh Ahmed died on the evening of 19 October 1984 in Dhaka.

In November 1942, Farrukh Ahmed married his cousin Syeda Tayyaba Khatun (Lily). On the occasion of his own marriage, Farrukh wrote a poem called 'Upahar' which was published in 'Sawgat' in Agrahayan 1349.

In 1960, Farrukh Ahmad won the Bangla Academy Award. Poet Farrukh Ahmed received the President's Medal of Pride of Performance in 1975 and the Adamjee Literary Award and UNESCO Award in 1977. In 1977 and 1980, he was posthumously awarded the Ekushey Padak and the Swadhinata Padak.

He passed away on October 19, 1974.

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