Deepak Kumar Acharjee feted for literary contribution
Staff Correspondent
Deepak Kumar Acharjee, the esteemed editor and publisher of The South Asian Times, was honoured for his literary contributions at a ceremony hosted by the renowned publishing house Abisker yesterday.
The event was held at the National Press Club with the presence of a number of journalists and contemporary writers.
Editor of the Daily People’s life Azizul Islam Bhuiya, also a freedom fighter, handed over a crest to Deepak Kumar Acharjee.
Abishker honored a total of 32 journalists and writers for their books published from the publishing house.
The owner of Abisker SD Delwar Hasan conducted the programme, where poet and joint editor of the daily Prothom Alo Sohrab Hasan, and poet and singer Aparna Khan spoke at the event. Journalist and writer Asaduzzaman Samrat, poet and journalist Abdul Mannan, poet Rafiq Hasan, journalist Muhammad Akbar, journalist and writer Kudrat e Khoda, journalist and writer Taskina Yasmin and journalist and writer Puspita Acharjee were also felicitated as writers.
