Naturalist Dwijen Sharma dies at 88

FE Team | Published: September 15, 2017 23:55:37

Prof Dwijen Sharma, an eminent naturalist and writer of the country, passed away at a city hospital around 4:00 am Friday, report agencies.
He was 88.
He left behind his wife, one son, a daughter, a host of relatives and well-wishers to mourn his death.
Sharma's body was kept at the Square Hospital's mortuary. His cremation ceremony will be held after his daughter returns from abroad.
Sharma, who would dedicate his life to trees, went on to write more than a dozen books on the role of nature in human life. He received the Bangla Academy award in 1987 and Ekushey Padak in 2015.
Sharma was born in 1929 in Sylhet's Moulvibazar. His father Chandrakanda Sharma was a Kabiraj, or a practitioner of herbal medicine. It was his father's work that first introduced young Sharma to the world of nature.
He graduated honours from Kolkata City Collage and got his masters from Dhaka University. He later taught botany at Karimganj College, BM College and Notre Dame College.
One of his famous books is 'Shyamoli Nishorgo' or 'Green Nature'.