Abul Mansur Ahmed

Family

Children: 

Mahfuz Anam

Published by Fahud Khan on Tue, 2010/12/21 - 11:16am

Life Time: 

Sunday, June 18, 1950

Mahfuz Anam is an editor and publisher of Daily Star, one of Bangladesh's mainstream English language newspapers. He is also the publisher of "Weekly 2000", a prominent weekly newsletter from Bangladesh as well as "Anandadhara", a popular entertainment fortnightly of the country. He was the publisher of "Prothom Alo", a leading Bengali daily.

Abul Mansur Ahmed (Bengali: আবুল মনসুর আহমেদ) (1898–1979) was a Bangladeshi littérateur. Was also a politician and journalist. He was born in Mymensingh.Renowned journalist and editor of The Daily Star Mr Mahfuz Anam is his son.

Student life
He passed the Matriculation Examination in 1917 and the Intermediate in 1919. This was a time when the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation movements were attracting the Muslim educated class. Abul Mansur Ahmed got involved in these movements. He studied Law at Ripon College, Calcutta.

Political Carrer
He also joined the Congress movement under Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Became an active member of the Bengal Muslim League after the elections of 1937 and became an activist of the Pakistan movement since 1940. Abul Mansur was the provincial education minister in the United Front Cabinet under Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Huq and the central commerce and industries minister of the Awami League government of Prime Minister Hossain Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1957. He was the founder-secretary of the Awami Muslim League, later Bangladesh Awami League. Was imprisoned when Martial Law was declared by General Ayub Khan in 1958 and was released in 1962.