''The Agatya'' (also transliterated as ''The Agattya'') was a Bangladeshi monthly

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which began publishing in 1949. Its main focus was on literature and culture in Bangladesh, and it was considered very popular before the advent of newer publications.Hayat Saif: The Situation in the Poetry of Bangladesh
Retrieved 10 September 2010. It remains a signature periodical in the history of Bangladesh's socio-cultural movement. It was founded in part by veteran

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Mahbub Jamal Zahedi and was initially published by a popular

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host of the time, Fazle Lohani. The journalists who ventured to bring out ''The Agatya'' confronted great odds of the day. ''The Agatya'' had a significant role in vocalising the cause of the

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. It is credited by Hayat Saif as having "A role in setting the trend and standards of progressive literary and social thinking in the

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of the early 1950s."

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