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Rama Chowdhury, a writer and one of the 0.2 million (200,000) Biranganas of the Liberation War, died at Chittagong Medical College Hospital early Monday. She was 82.
Rama Chowdhrury who had been suffering from old age complications, breathed her last around 4:00am, said her private assistant Alauddin Ahmed Khokon, says a UNB report.
Her body will be taken to the Chattogram Central Shaheed Minar at 11:00am so people can pay their respects, Chattogram United Cultural Alliance Convening Committee Member Secretary Ahmed Iqbal Haider said. She will then be laid to rest at her ancestral home in Boalkhali upazila of Chattogram, reports bdnews24.
The writer had been suffering from illness since she sustained fracture in her waist after she fell down at her residence in Boalkhali on December 24, 2017.
She had been undergoing treatment at the hospital's freedom fighters' cabin since March 25 last.
Born at Popadia village in Boalkhali upazila in 1936, Rama Chowdhury fell prey to perverted Pakistani military forces at her residence on May 13, 1971 during the Liberation War.
The freedom fighter wielded her pen and wrote 19 books, including novel, poetry, articles, alongside teaching in high schools.