Rashid Askari

Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari (born 1 June 1965), known as Rashid Askari, is a Bengali-English writer, fictionist, columnist, translator, media personality, and an academic in Bangladesh. He was the 12th vice-chancellor of Islamic University, Bangladesh in Kushtia. Among post-1990s Bangladeshi writers, he is easily on par with the major ones who gained identical and impressive mastery over both Bangla and English. Askari was born in Askarpur, Mithapukur, Rangpur in erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1965 to M. A. Mannan, an English teacher and headmaster, and Setara Begum, a housewife. Rashid passed the secondary school and higher secondary certificate examinations in 1980 and 1982. He "obtained Honours and Master's degrees in English from Dhaka University with distinction, and a PhD in Indian English Literature from the University of Poona".