HQ Chowdhury is a freelance writer mostly on events and people covering the time frame of the 30s to 80s of the last century. He first wrote in the late 60s for the People, an English daily from Dhaka and then in the early 70s for Cine Advance, published from Kolkata and Mumbai. He also wrote for the popular Bangladesh dailies namely, the Bangladesh Observer, Daily Star and New Age covering topics like music, films, sports, science & technology.
HQ Chowdhury was the Founder and Ex CEO of Plasma Plus, Bangladesh’s first private R&D Laboratory known for its outstanding publications in science & medicine. He was listed several times in the Marquis WHO's WHO in the World of Professionals and also a recipient of the 2006 Sachin Dev Burman Award from the Government of Tripura, India. An Emeritus Associate of American Association of Physicists in Medicine -- Sports, Movies, Music, Travels and Food keep HQ happy. He can be reached via hqaqchowdhury@gmail.com
There is music in the air, especially when you let nostalgia take over. In the world of black and white that once was, something of the truly lyrical came to define music in our part of the world
My introduction to Sachin Dev Burman happened through my father and uncles. They’d wait eagerly for this radio programme
This is the life and times of composer-singer Sachin Karta by an ardent fan HQ Chowdhury
Note that it’s not as if I go about mindlessly buying every biography of his that I see (in fact, to be honest