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|name=Waheedul Haq<br />
|birth_date={{birth date|1933|03|16|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place=[[Keraniganj Upazila]], [[Dhaka]], [[East Bengal]] (now&nbsp;[[Bangladesh]])<br />
|death_date={{death date and age|2007|01|27|1933|03|16|df=y}}<br />
|death_place =Dhaka, Bangladesh<br />
|occupation = journalist<br />
|spouse=<br />
|known_for = founder of [[Chhayanaut]]<br />
|awards=[[Ekushey Padak]] <br> [[Independence Day Award]]<br />
|alma_mater=[[Dhaka College]] <br> [[Dhaka University]]<br />
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'''Waheedul Haq''' (March 16, 1933 &ndash; January 27, 2007) was a journalist, writer, and musicologist of Tagore songs.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/01/28/d7012801097.htm|title=Waheedul Haq passes away|publisher=The Daily Star|date=2007-01-28|accessdate=2013-01-27}}</ref> <br />
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==Early life==<br />
Haq was born on March 16, 1933 at Bhawal Monoharia village under [[Keraniganj Upazila]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}} His father, Mazharul Haq, was a member of Bengal legislative assembly in 1946. His mother was Mewa Begum. Waheedul was the eldest of three brothers and two sisters. His brother Rezaul Haq is a journalist and another brother Ziaul Haq was a martyr in 1971.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}<br />
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Haq grew up in the [[Old Dhaka|old part]] of Dhaka city and was educated in the [[Dhaka College]]. He married to Sanjida Khatun and had three children: Apala Farhat Naved (late), Partha Tanveer Naved, and Ruchira Tabassum Naved.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}<br />
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==Career==<br />
Haq and other activists founded [[Chhayanaut]] in 1961.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chhayanaut.org/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%82%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%A0%E0%A6%A8/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%A5%E0%A6%BE/|script-title=bn:ছায়ানটের জন্মকথা|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Chhayanaut|title=history of Chhayanat on Banglapedia|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref><ref name=star2>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=266640|title=Chhayanaut to commemorate Waheedul Haque|date=2013-01-28|accessdate=2013-01-28|work=The Daily Star}}</ref> <br />
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He also founded Kanthashilon, Nalonda, Anandadhani, Fulki, Bratochari Samity and Bashanto Utsab Udjapon Parishad. He formed the ''Jatiya Rabindra Sangeet Sammilon Parishad'' in 1980. He was also involved in filmmaking and the film society movement during the 1960s. He also composed the musical scores for the Indian director [[Ritwik Ghatak]]'s film [[Titash Ekti Nadir Naam]].<br />
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===Journalism===<br />
During his fifty-five-year career in journalism, Haq wrote for [[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]], where he worked as an Assistant Editor and later as a Joint Editor.{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}} He was a shift in-charge of the ''Daily Observer'' in the 1960s. Since the late 1990s he worked as a freelance columnist in several newspapers including [[Bhorer Kagoj]], [[Janakantha]], The New Nation, The Morning News and The People.<br />
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==Death==<br />
Haq died at Dhaka's Birdem Hospital on 27 January 2007.{{Citation needed|date= February 2022}} He had been suffering from pneumonia and lung and kidney diseases and had been undergoing treatment at the hospital for few weeks.{{Citation needed|date= February 2022}}<br />
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==Works==<br />
*''Gaaner Bhetor Diye'' (''Seen Through Music'')<br />
*''Chetona Dharaye Esho'' (''Come With The Stream Of Consciousness'')<br />
*''Shangskriti Jagoroner Prothom Shurjo'' (''The First Sun Of The Rising Of Culture'')<br />
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==Awards==<br />
*[[Ekushey Padak]] for music (2008)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent-bangladesh.com/200802202136/events/9-awarded-ekushey-padak-08.html|title=9 awarded Ekushey Padak '08|publisher=Independent Bangladesh|accessdate=2013-01-26|date=2008-02-20}}</ref><br />
*[[Independence Day Award]] for culture (2010){{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}<br />
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