Kamal Lohani | |
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কামাল লোহানী | |
![]() Lohani in 2018 | |
Director General of Shilpakala Academy | |
In office 20 April 2009 – 10 April 2011 | |
Preceded by | Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam [1] |
Succeeded by | Liaquat Ali Lucky |
Personal details | |
Born | Abu Naeem Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Khan Lohani 26 June 1934 [2] British Raj |
Died | 20 June 2020 Dhaka, Bangladesh | (aged 85)
Cause of death | COVID-19 |
Resting place | Sontala Central Graveyard, Sirajganj |
Spouse |
Dipti Rani
(
m. 1960; died 2007) |
Children | 3 |
Occupation | Journalist, administrator |
Kamal Lohani (26 June 1934 [2] – 20 June 2020) was a Bangladeshi journalist. [3] He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2015 by the Government of Bangladesh. [4] He served as the director general of Shilpakala Academy from April 2009 until April 2011. [5] [6]
Lohani got his first job as a journalist in the Daily Millat in 1955. [7] He joined as a secretary at Chhayanaut, a cultural organization, in 1962. He formed a left cultural organization – Kranti in 1967. [7]
Abu Naeem Mohammad Mostafa Kamal Khan Lohani was born on 26 June 1934, in the village of Khan Santala into a Bengali Muslim Khan Pathan family descended from the Lohani Pashtun tribe in the then Pabna District (now Ullahpara Upazila of Sirajganj District). [8] [9] His father's name was Abu Yusuf Mohammad Musa Khan Lohani and his mother's name was Rokeya Khanam Lohani. [10] In 1952, he passed the secondary examination from Pabna Zilla School. [11] He completed his higher education from Govt. Edward College, Pabna. [2]
In 1960, Lohani married his cousin Syeda Dipti Rani. She was his fellow political party member. [7] Together they had two daughters and a son. [7]
Lohani died from COVID-19-related complications on 20 June 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. [12] [13]