A doa mahfil and remembrance meeting was held for late Prof Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir yesterday morning.
She was the founder principal of Central Women’s College, and also the founder vice-chancellor and chairperson of Board of Trustees of Central Women’s University.
Speakers at the meeting highlighted her contribution in upholding education of women in the context of Bangladesh, leading to the empowerment of women in the country.
Academics, students and admirers of Prof Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir attended the gathering to pray for the departed soul and discussed about her life.
The event was also attended, among others, by Prof Perween Hasan, vice-chancellor of Central Women’s University, Prof Dr Serajul Islam Chowdhury and Prof AH Ahmed Kamal, members at the university’s board of trustees, Prof Wahid Uddin Mahmud, former adviser to caretaker government, Dr Maleka Begum, chairperson at the university’s department of sociology and gender studies, Kazi Zahedul Hasan, member of the Board of Trustees and managing director of Kazi Farms Limited, and cultural activist Laila Hasan.
Prof Mahmud, who was born on April 16, 1929, had been in the intensive care unit of Square Hospitals in the capital since October 22 and died on November 2.
