Shib Narayan Das (born 16 December 1946) is the first craftsman of the first national flag of

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million pe ...

Designing the national flag of Bangladesh

As desired by the then NUCLEUS (Shadhin Bangla Biplobi Parishad) by a match stick and yellow colored paint, he marked the map of Bangladesh over the red circle of the proposed flag in the room numbered 108 of the then Iqbal Hall of

Dhaka University The University of Dhaka (also known as Dhaka University, or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is the oldest university in Bangladesh. The university opened its doors to students on July 1st 1921. Currently it ...

(DU) from deep mid-night of June 6 up to the dawn of June 7 in 1970.

A. S. M. Abdur Rab A. S. M. Abdur Rab (born 1945) is a Bangladeshi politician. He is the founder secretary general of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal. In 1985, Rab and his followers left the party and formed a new party Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-JSD, known as JSD (Rab). ...

, Shahjahan Siraj,

Kazi Aref Ahmed Kazi Aref Ahmed ( bn, কাজী আরেফ আহমেদ) was the President of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal and one of the organizers of Bangladesh Liberation war. Early life Ahmed was born in 1948. Career Ahmed was a founding member of the ...

, Manirul Islam,

Swapan Kumar Choudhury Swapan may refer to: *Swapan Bauri, Indian politician * Swapan Bhattacharjee (born 1952), Bangladesh Awami League politician *Swapan Sadhan Bose (born 1948), Indian politician, Member of the Parliament of India * Swapan Kumar Chakravorty (1954–2 ...

, Quamrul Alam Khan (Khasru), Hasanul Haq Inu, Yousuf Salahuddin Ahmed and some others were also involved in it and present at that time . On behalf of the NUCLEUS, the same flag was unfurled by Abdur Rab along with AFM Mahbubul Haq, Das and other student league leaders from the roof top of the western porch of the Arts Faculty of DU, on March 2, 1971, shortly before the outbreak of the

Bangladesh Liberation War The Bangladesh Liberation War ( bn, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ, , also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh) was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali ...

. After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the map of Bangladesh was removed from the flag as it had difficulty for rendering the map correctly on both sides of the flag. Artist

Quamrul Hassan Quamrul Hassan (, 1921–1988) was a Bengali artist. Hassan is referred to in Bangladesh as Potua, a word usually associated with folk artists, due to his down to earth style yet very modern in nature as he always added Cubism other than the fo ...

was asked to report on the design, color, shape and explanation. On 17 January 1972, the new design was made the official national flag of Bangladesh.

References

People from Comilla District Bangladesh Liberation War Living people Flag designers People from Comilla 1946 births Bengali Hindus Bangladeshi Hindus Comilla Victoria Government College alumni {{Bangladesh-politician-stub