Begum Mushtari Shafi
1938 –December 20, 2021
Writer, Publisher, Social activist
Lived 83 years
- Born in
- Chittagong, Bengal Presidency
- Passed away in
- Chittagong, Bangladesh
Begum Mushtari Shafi was a Bangladeshi writer, publisher and women's rights activist. During the 1971 Liberation War, her home in Chittagong was used to support members of the resistance; her husband and brother were killed by the Pakistani army. She later wrote about the war and received the Begum Rokeya Padak for her social and cultural work.
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