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MNA Feature Desk: Begum Sufia Kamal was a poet, a writer, an organizer, a feminist and an activist of Bangladesh, who has taken herself to such a level that the she became a name around the world. Begum Sufia Kamal was born to a Muslim family in Barisal, Bangladesh. She is one of the most widely recognized cultural personalities in Bangladesh. When she died in 1999, she was buried with full state honors, the first woman in Bangladesh to receive this honor. Sufia Kamal was born to Shayestabad’s Nawab family in Barisal. Although raised within strict purdah, that denied her ...

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