The Agatya

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The Agatya
TypeMonthly magazine
Founder(s) Mahbub Jamal Zahedi
Fazle Lohani
Editor-in-chiefMahbub Jamal Zahedi
Founded1949 (1949)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters Dhaka, Bangladesh

The Agatya (also transliterated as The Agattya) was a Bangladeshi monthly periodical which began publishing in 1949. [1] Its main focus was on literature and culture in Bangladesh, [2] and it was considered very popular before the advent of newer publications. [3] It remains a signature periodical in the history of Bangladesh's socio-cultural movement. [4]

It was founded in part by veteran journalist Mahbub Jamal Zahedi [4] and was initially published by a popular Bangladesh Television host of the time, Fazle Lohani. [2] The journalists who ventured to bring out The Agatya confronted great odds of the day. [4]

The Agatya had a significant role in vocalising the cause of the Bengali people. [4] 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." [3]

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