Qayyum buried at Azimpur graveyard
The country’s legendary artist Qayyum Chowdhury was buried beside his father-in-law at Azimpur graveyard in Dhaka after a namaz-e-janaza at the Dhaka University Central Mosque this afternoon.
Renowned personalities like Finance Minister AMA Muhith, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid, and Road Transportation and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader and DU VC Arefin Siddique attended the first janaza held after Zohr prayers.
The body was taken to the mosque after people from all walks of life including artistes, politicians and academicians paid their rich tribute to him at the Central Shaheed Minar.
Qayyum, 82, suffered a massive cardiac arrest and breathed his last around 9:00pm yesterday.
Earlier, a pall of gloom descended at Institute of Fine Arts of Dhaka University when an ambulance carrying Qayyum’s body reached there around 11:00am today. The colleagues and students of the institute paid emotional tributes to him.
At the Bengal Classical Music Festival at the capital's Army Stadium last night, he collapsed after delivering his speech.
He was whisked off to the nearby Combined Military Hospital by an ambulance after fell unconscious.
The body of Qayyum was kept at the mortuary of Square Hospital in Dhaka the whole night.
Qayyum won innumerable awards including, the Imperial Court Prize, Tehran Biennale, Gold medal for book design from the National Book Centre of Dhaka, the Shilpakala Academy Award, the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for Book Illustration, the Ekushey Padak, the 6th Bangabandhu Award and the Sultan Padak.
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