Memorial discussion on Humayun Ahmed in Kurigram

Kurigram district unit of Sammilito Sangaskritik Jote, a national cultural organization, held a memorial discussion on the life and works of popular writer Humayun Ahmed at the Kurigram Press Club last Friday night.
Speakers at the discussion urged the government and Ahmed's family to fulfill his last wish and set up a cancer hospital.
They also demanded that Ahmed's birth and death anniversaries be observed nationally.
Humayun Ahmed, 64, died while undergoing cancer treatment at Bellevue Hospital in New York last Thursday.
Presided over by convener of the district unit of Sammilito Sangaskritik Jote, Shyamol Bhoumik, the discussion was addressed among others by Principal of Kurigram Law College and Public Prosecutor, Advocate Abraham Lincoln; Press Club secretary Ahsan Habib; veteran journalist Md. Shahabuddin; former chairman of Kurigram Municipality, Md. Kaziul Islam; General Secretary of the district Communist Party, Md. Ansar Ali; poet Jyoti Ahmed; Prochchhad (cultural organisation) president Zulqarnain Shapon; and general secretary of the district unit of Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad, Subrata Roy.
Shyamol Bhoumik said, “We have lost an icon of Bangla literature. Ahmed enriched our literature immensely through his huge volumes of writing. His death had created an irreparable vacuum in the field of literature.”