Nat'l Press Club honours writers
The National Press Club yesterday accorded reception to eminent writers and member writers of the club for their contribution to literature and journalism bringing about socio-economic and political changes in the country.
The eminent writers were conferred crests, while the member writers medals at a ceremony on the club premises in the city.
The writers who were honoured include Abul Hossain, Shawkat Ali, Syed Shamsul Haque, Badruddin Umar, Prof Serajul Islam Chowdhury, Hasan Azizul Haque, Qaiyum Chowdhury, Murtaza Bashir, Fazal Shahabuddin, Kazi Anwar Hossain, Sayeed Ahmed, Rabeya Khatun, Rizia Rahman, Abdul Mannan Syed, Noorjahan Begum, Humayun Ahmed, Kaiser Chowdhury, Mustafa Zaman Abbasi and Al Mahmud.
The Club also honoured around 150 of its member writers who wrote one or more books.
President of the National Press Club Shaukat Mahmud, life member Faiz Ahmed, General Secretary Kamaluddin Sabuj and AB Bank Managing Director Kaiser Ahmed handed over the crests and medals.
Expressing his feelings, Prof Serajul Islam Chowdhury said he is happy on receipt of the honour, but regretted that journalism and literature are attacked by capitalism today.
Journalists played crucial role in the struggle for democracy, but they need to be free from capital to better serve the nation and people, he added.
“Even literature has become a product today,” he said, urging the journalists and the writers to be free from all influences of vested quarters, and continue to play their due role for a free and democratic society.
Veteran journalist Faiz Ahmed said different vested quarters have always tried to control journalists who are not free from such efforts even today.
“We must not be the victims of vested quarters,” he asserted.
Shaukat presented a paper titled 'Today's crisis of literature and journalism' at the programme that ended with a cultural function.
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