Kausar Ahmed Chaudhury (16 December 1944 – 22 February 2022) was a Bangladeshi lyricist & astrologer. He gained his fame as an astrologer for his regular horoscope readings in satirical way on Apnar Rashi (''your zodiac sign'') in the Daily

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. He wrote classic Bengali songs for many singers and bands, like

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Samina Chowdhury Samina Chowdhury (born 28 August 1966) is a Bangladeshi singer. She mostly sings modern and classical songs. Her notable songs include ''Jonmo Theke Jolchi Mago'', ''Amar Buker Moddhyekhane'', ''Amar Dui Chokhe Dui Nodi'', ''Ekbar Jodi Keu'', '' ...

Lucky Akhand Lucky Akhand (7 June 1956 – 21 April 2017) was a Bangladeshi singer-composer. He was associated with the musical band ''Happy Touch''. He composed and gave vocal to songs including ''Ei Neel Monihar'', ''Aamay Deko Na'', ''Agey Jodi Janitam'', ...

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and others. He was a freedom fighter and worked as an intelligence for the

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during

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in 1971. Among his popular songs are "Rupali Guitar" (LRB), "Amay Deko Na Ferano Jabe Na" (Samina Chowdhury, Lucky Aakhand), "Jekhane Simanto Tomar" (Kumar Bishwajit), "Kobita Porar Prohor" (Samina Chowdhury), "Aj Ei Brishti'r Kanna Dekhe" (Niaz Mohammad Chowdhury), "Moushumi 1 (Feedback), "Koto Je Khunjechi Tomay" (Niloy Das), "Sokhi Cholona" (Sayed Abdul Hadi, Movie: Ghuddi) and others.

Early life

Chaudhury was born on 16 December 1944 in

Sylhet District Sylhet ( bn, সিলেট), located in north-east Bangladesh, is the divisional capital and one of the four districts in the Sylhet Division. History Sylhet district was established on 3 January 1782, and until 1878 it was part of Bengal Pro ...

of the then

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(later

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, then

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and now Bangladesh). He graduated in drawing and sketching from the Fine Art Institute of

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Career

Chaudhury started practicing astrology when he was 11 years old. He started writing lyrics when he was a student of Dhaka University. At his early age, he joined the government service. Besides writing lyrics, he also wrote few scripts for TV drama and directed many of them.

Death

Chaudhury died on 22 February 2022, at the age of 77. He was buried on 23 February 2022 at the

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graveyard,

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. Before burying, his funeral prayer was performed at Musjid-Ut-Taqwa in

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