Veteran cultural personality Sanjida Khatun passes away
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NN Online:
Dr Sanjida Khatun, renowned cultural personality and president of Chhayanaut, passed away on Tuesday at a hospital in the capital. She was 92.
Sanjida Khatun, who had been suffering from various old-age ailments, breathed her last at Square Hospital around 3pm, according to family sources.
She completed her bachelor’s in Bengali literature from the University of Dhaka in 1955 and earned her MA degree in Bangla language from Visva Bharati University in 1957.
Sanjida joined the faculty of the University of Dhaka to teach Bengali literature.
She was one of the founders of Bangladesh Mukti Sangrami Shilpi Sangstha during the Liberation War in 1971 and Chhayanaut in the early 1960s.