{"id":8037,"date":"2018-04-24T11:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T10:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=8037"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T14:22:12","slug":"poet-belal-chaudhury-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/poet-belal-chaudhury-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Belal Chaudhury passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8038\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Belal.jpg\" alt=\"Belal\" width=\"293\" height=\"172\" \/>Ekushey Padak winner poet Belal Chaudhury breathed his last this noon while undergoing treatment at Anwar Khan Modern Hospital in the city. He was 79.<br \/>\nBelal Chaudhury is survived by two sons, a daughter and a host of relatives and admirers.<br \/>\nThe poet was admitted to Anwar Khan Modern Hospital in Dhanmondi on August 27.<br \/>\nThe poet had been suffering from diabetes and kidney complications for long.<br \/>\nChaudhury served Bharat Bichitra as its editor, published from Indian High Commission in Dhaka. He was also an editor of Shaptahik Sandwip and Krittibas, a Bengali poetry magazine edited by Sunil Gangopadhyay.<br \/>\nBelal Chaudhury was also an essayist and translator. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2014 for his literary contribution to Bangla literature. He also received Bangla Academy Literary Award.<br \/>\nChowdhury was born on November 12, 1938 in Sharsdi village of Feni in the then Bengal Presidency under the British rule.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/poet-belal-chaudhury-passes-away\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekushey Padak winner poet Belal Chaudhury breathed his last this noon while undergoing treatment at Anwar Khan Modern Hospital in the city. He was 79. Belal Chaudhury is survived by two sons, a daughter and a host of relatives and admirers. The poet was admitted to Anwar Khan Modern Hospital in Dhanmondi on August 27. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8039,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8037\/revisions\/8039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}