Hamin ahmed
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Begum, Syeda Firoza (1929-2000) obstetrician and gynecologist, social worker and philanthropist. She was born in 1929 in Chandina of Comilla district. She was conferred with MBBS degree in 1953 from Dhaka Medical College (DMC) and after his surgical residency in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) went to United Kingdom (UK) where she completed MRCOG in 1964.
Syeda Firoza Begum returned home to join DMC as an Associate Professor of obstetrics and Gynecology, where she was promoted as Professor in 1967 and continued in that post till 1986 when she resigned government service to run the election for Membership of Parliament (MP).
She was the President of Obstetrical and Gynecological Society of Bangladesh (1978-1985), President of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) for two terms, Chairman of Dhaka Shishu Hospital and Chairman of the Uttara Bank Limited.
She was also the President of the Regional Medical Committee of the South Asian Region of International Planned Parenthood Federation, President of Bangladesh Association for Septic Abortion and Bangladesh Association f
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KAMAL DASGUPTA
A Short Biography
Kamal Dasgupta (28 July 1912 – 20 July 1974) was a Bangladeshi music director, composer and folk artist. Rāga and Thumri were the main elements of his music. His wife Feroza Begum was a noted Nazrul Sangeet singer. Their second and third sons Hamin Ahmedand Shafin Ahmed are the lead singers with Bangladeshi Band Miles.
Dasgupta was born on 28 July 1912 in Narail, Jessore of the then British India. He matriculated in 1928 from Calcutta Academy and later completed B. Com. from Comilla Victoria Government College. He earned his doctorate in music from Banaras Hindu University in 1943 for his work on Meerabai, the composer and singer of Bhajans. His early inspiration came from his father, Tara Prasanna Dasgupta. He took his first music lessons from his brother, Bimal Das Gupta. Later he studied under Dilip Kumar Roy, Kana Kesta, and Ustad Jamiruddin Khan.
Dasgupta sang modern songs in Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, and Tamil. He was also a composer, composing the music for about eight thousand songs. His work was based on classical music and ten
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Feroza Begum, a legendary singer, not only popularised Nazrul Sangeet in the subcontinent but also exposed the depth, versatility and sophistication of this genre of music.
Firoza Begum is a renowned Bangladeshi singer who started her career in 1960s. She is one of the pioneer Nazrul Sangeet singers in Bangladesh who popularized the genre in the whole South Asia. Millions of people adhere her name with great honor.
So much so that it is impossible to talk about the evolution of Nazrul Sangeet without talking about this remarkable artiste. At a time when Nazrul Sangeet was beginning to lose its popularity due to the flawed rendition by singers, it was Feroza Begum whose passionate singing style restored or rather resurrected, the glory of the music genre and infused new life to Nazrul Sangeet in the middle of the last century in Kolkata. By her unique presentation style Feroza Begum has emerged as the most prominent Nazrul Sangeet singer in the subcontinent. Though she is popular as a Nazrul singer, she renders other music genres such as geet, ghazal, thumri, dhadra and adhunik s
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