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{{infobox person
|name=Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury
|native_name=মাহবুব-উল-আলম চৌধুরী
|native_name_lang=bn
|birth_date={{birth date|1927|11|7|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Chittagong]], [[Bengal Presidency]], British India
|nationality=Bangladeshi
|spouse={{marriage|Jowshan Ara Rahman|1952}}
|death_date={{death date and age|2007|12|23|1927|11|7|df=y}}
|death_place=[[Dhaka]], Bangladesh
}}

'''Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury''' (7 November 1927 – 23 December 2007) was a Bangladeshi poet, journalist, and activist in the [[Bengali Language Movement]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=16286 |title=Language Movement hero Mahbub no more |publisher=[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]] |date=24 December 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-11-21 |title=Remembering poet Mahbubul Alam Chowdhury |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-210918 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> He wrote the first poem on the Bengali Language Movement.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 February 2021 |title=The first poem on Ekushey |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/238883/the-first-poem-on-ekushey |access-date=2 November 2024 |work=[[Dhaka Tribune]]}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Ekushey Padak]] in 2009 by the [[government of Bangladesh]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/death-anniversary-56684 |title=Death anniversary |date=23 December 2014 |accessdate=7 February 2016 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref>

==Early life==
Choudhury was born on 7 November 1927 in Gohira, Raozan Upazila, Chittagong District, East Bengal, British India, to Ahmadur Rahman Chowdhury and Rowshan Ara Begum.<ref name=bpedia>{{Cite Banglapedia |article=Chowdhury, Mahbub ul Alam}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Acute isolation in the poetry of Mahbubul Alam Chowdhury - |url=https://www.observerbd.com/news/104787 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=The Daily Observer}}</ref> He passed the Entrance Examination with distinction from Gohira High School in 1947.<ref name=bpedia/> He could not finish his studies at Chittagong College due to political reasons.<ref name=observer>{{cite news |url=http://www.observerbd.com/2014/12/23/62317.php |title=Poet Mahbubul Alam Chowdhury's 7th death anniversary today |date=23 December 2014 |publisher=The Daily Observer}}</ref><ref name=bpedia/> He was a member of the Students Federation, an organisation for Muslim students.<ref name=bpedia/>

== Career ==
Choudhury got involved in politics very early in his life. In 1942 he joined the [[Quit India]] movement against the British regime. In 1945, he participated in the Bengal Provincial Students Summit, where he came upon with the famous [[Bengali literature]] writers of that time. He went across the rural areas during the political turmoil in 1946. He also became the secretary of the first ever [[Kazi Nazrul Islam|Nazrul]] anniversary in [[Chittagong]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Mahbub Ul Alam Choudhury |url=https://dailyasianage.com/news/148186/mahbub-ul-alam-choudhury |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=The Asian Age |language=en}}</ref> After the formation of [[Pakistan]] in 1947, Choudhury formed a monthly magazine ''Shimanto''.<ref>[[Selina Hossain|Hossain, Selina]]. [[Prothom Alo]], 7 November 2006</ref> He protested against the killing of protesting farmers at Halda River by the Pakistan government.<ref name=bpedia/> He attended the World Peace Conference in Kolkata at the Deshbandhu Park.<ref name=bpedia/> ''Shimanto'' was in publication till 1952.<ref name=bpedia/>

Choudhury was involved in the language movement from 1948 to 1956. He organized protests in 1950 against the government of Pakistan for not making Bengali a national language.<ref name=bpedia/> He joined the a youth conference in 1951 that led to the establishment of the East Pakistan Jubo League.<ref name=bpedia/> In 1952 he was in the Chittagong State Language Action Committee. On February 21, after knowing the police incident at [[Dhaka University]], he immediately wrote the poem ''Kadte Asini, Phansir Dabi Niye Esechhi'' which is the first poem of the movement.<ref name=bpedia/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sadiq |first=Dhrubo |date=7 November 2021 |title=Mahbub ul Alam Chy remembered |url=https://www.newagebd.net/article/154009/mahbub-ul-alam-chy-remembered |access-date=2 November 2024 |work=New Age}}</ref> The poem was banned by the government of Pakistan.<ref name=death>{{Cite news |title=1952 veteran Mahbub Ul Alam dies |url=https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/1952-veteran-mahbub-ul-alam-dies |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=bdnews24.com |language=en}}</ref> He was a central committee member and secretary of the Chittagong District unit of the [[Ganotontri Dal]], a secular party established in 1953.<ref name=bpedia/>

Chowdhury was the founding secretary of the "Bishwa Shanti Porishad" (World Peace Council) and "Shanti Fauj" (Peace Corp) to take a stand against communal riots in Chittagong.<ref name=bpedia/> He campaigned for the [[United Front (East Pakistan)|United Front]] in 1954.<ref name=bpedia/> He retired from politics in 1965.<ref name=bpedia/> He participated in the [[Kagmari Conference]] in 1957.<ref name=bpedia/> He established Gohira Degree College in 1968.<ref name=bpedia/>

After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, Chowdhury was appointed chairman of the editorial board of Daily Swadhinata, published from Chittagong from 1972 to 1982.<ref name=bpedia/> He founded Kristi Kendra and Sahittya Baithak, monthly magazine, in Chittagong.<ref name=bpedia/> He moved to Dhaka in 1975.<ref name=bpedia/>

== Personal life ==
Chowdhury married Jowshan Ara Rahman (1936–2024) on 10 October 1952.<ref name=wife>{{Cite news |last=Zaman |first=Niaz |date=2024-11-10 |title=A tribute to Jowshan Ara Rahman |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/views/news/tribute-jowshan-ara-rahman-3749141 |access-date=2024-11-11 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> She worked as the chief of the Women's Development Programme in [[UNICEF]] Bangladesh from 1979 until 1996.<ref name=wife/>

=== Death and legacy ===
Chowdhury died on 23 December 2007 in [[United Hospital, Dhaka]].<ref name=bpedia/><ref name=death/> He was posthumously awarded the [[Ekushey Padak]] in 2009.<ref name=bpedia/><ref name=":1"/>

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[[Category:People from Chittagong District]]
[[Category:Bangladeshi male poets]]
[[Category:Bengali language movement activists]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Ekushey Padak]]
[[Category:20th-century Bangladeshi poets]]
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