''The Agatya'' (also transliterated as ''The Agattya'') was a Bangladeshi monthly periodical which began publishing in 1949. Its main focus was on literature and culture in Bangladesh, and it was considered very popular before the advent of newer publications.Hayat Saif: The Situation in the Poetry of Bangladesh
Retrieved 10 September 2010. It remains a signature periodical in the history of Bangladesh's socio-cultural movement. It was founded in part by veteran journalist

Mahbub Jamal Zahedi Mahbub Jamal Zahedi also known as M J Zahedi (21 June 1929 – 7 December 2008) was a veteran journalist and philatelist from Pakistan. During a career of nearly fifty years he served as editor of the ''Khaleej Times'', Dubai, UAE as well the ne ...

and was initially published by a popular Bangladesh Television host of the time, Fazle Lohani. The journalists who ventured to bring out ''The Agatya'' confronted great odds of the day. ''The Agatya'' had a significant role in vocalising the cause of the

Bengali people Bengalis (singular Bengali bn, বাঙ্গালী/বাঙালি ), also rendered as Bangalee or the Bengali people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of S ...

. It is credited by Hayat Saif as having "A role in setting the trend and standards of progressive literary and social thinking in the Dhaka of the early 1950s."

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