Rashid Askari

Harun-ur-Rashid Askari
Rashid Askari in June 2013
Born	1 June 1965 Rangpur
Pen name	Rashid Askari
Occupation	Academic, writer

Rashid Askari (Bengali: রাশিদ আসকারী; born 1 June 1965) is a Bengali-English writer, columnist, and academic in Bangladesh.

Early life

Rashid Askari was born in Ashkarpur, Mithapukur, Rangpur in 1965. In 2005 he was awarded a PhD on Nirad C. Chaudhuri and Indian writing in English from the University of Pune.

Career

Askari joined Islamic University, Kushtia as a lecturer in English in 1990. He became a professor in 2005 and was head of the English department more than once. Recently he was elected "secretary general of Federation of Bangladesh University Teachers' Association for 2014".^[1] He has been "made new chairman of Folklore Studies Department of the university in Kushtia".^[2]

Writing style

An unsigned profile in The Kushtia Times stated that Askari writes "both Bengali and English with equal ease and efficiency".^[3] Bangladeshi novelist and critic Syed Manzoorul Islam notes: "He writes witty, racy stories with surprisingly serious undertones. Picking real-life events from the remote areas and the marginal people of the country and weaving them into various fictional forms are the hallmarks of his storytelling. ... Though not new in a ground-breaking way, his stories are both intense and original. The overall tone of his language is gently sarcastic ...".^[4]

Bibliography

Books

• Askari, Rashid (1996). মুমূর্ষ স্বদেশ [The Dying Homeland] (in Bengali). Dhaka.
• —— (1996). [Indo-English Literature and Others] (in Bengali). Dhaka.
• —— (1997). [Today's Folktale] (in Bengali). Dhaka.
• —— (2001). বিনির্মিত ভাবনা [Deconstructing Thoughts] (in Bengali). Dhaka.
• —— (2002). উত্তরাধুনিক সাহিত্য ও সমালোচনা তত্ত্ব [Postmodern Literary and Critical Theory] (in Bengali). Dhaka.
• —— (2010). The Wounded Land: Peoples, Politics, Culture, Literature, Liberation War, War Crimes, and Militancy in Bangladesh. Dhaka: Pathak Shamabesh. OCLC 708243896.
• —— (2011). Nineteen seventy one and other stories: a collection of short stories. Dhaka: Pathak Shamabesh. ISBN 978-9848866436.

Articles

• Askari, Rashid (3 August 2011). "Lottery". Contemporary Literary Review India. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013.
• —— (December 2011). "Nineteen seventy one" (PDF). Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and Societies (Wright State University) 2 (4): 118–122. ISSN 1948-1845.
• —— (December 2011). "Future of literature: Global Art-Malady and its Consequences" (PDF). Litsearch (M. A. Hafiz Siddiqui) 1 (1): 1–4. ISSN 2277-6990.
• —— (January 2012). "Jihad". Contemporary Literary Review India: 15–18. ISSN 2250-3366.
• —— (June 2012). "Locked-in Syndrome". Contemporary Literary Review India: 33–40. ISSN 2250-3366.
• —— (15 December 2007). "War crime and the criminal". The Brunei Times.
• —— (14 March 2012). "Eve-teasing in Bangladesh: Crime and punishment". African Herald Express. Archived from the original on 15 March 2012.
• —— (14 March 2012). "Psychological torture on women and the legal cure". African Herald Express. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012.
• —— (10 April 2012). "Population explosion and the fate of mankind". African Herald Express. Archived from the original on 22 April 2012.
• —— (10 May 2012). "Bangladesh's conquest of the sea: a daunting prospect". African Herald Express. Archived from the original on 29 June 2012.
• —— (17 February 2013). "Historic 21 February and the birth of a nation". African Herald Express.
• —— (5 May 2013). "The biggest industrial disaster in Bangladesh". African Herald Express. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013.

References

1. "Farid made president, Rashid secy gen of FBUTA". New Age (Dhaka). BSS. 9 March 2014.
2. "IU Folklore Dept gets new chairman". The Financial Express (Dhaka). BSS. 21 January 2016.
3. "Profile of the week--Dr. Rashid Askari: Fiction writer, critic, columnist, teacher, and social analyst". The Kushtia Times. 9 January 2012.
4. Islam, Syed Manzoorul (16 February 2012). "Nineteen seventy one and other stories: a collection of short stories". Dhaka Courier. Archived from the original on 23 May 2013.

• "The Wounded Land: A Reflection on today's Bangladesh". Dhaka Courier. 23 January 2011 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
• "Curriculum Vitae: Rashid Askari" (PDF). Islamic University, Kushtia. Retrieved 12 November 2013.