Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy, also known as Shahid Suhrawardy was a Bengali diplomat, translator, poet and art critic.
Hasan Shaheed Suhrawardy
(from left) Suhrawardy, Philip Arnold Heseltine (Peter Warlock) and D. H. Lawrence on 29 November 1915
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was a Pakistani Bengali barrister and politician. In Bangladesh, Suhrawardy is remembered as a pioneer of Bengali civil rights movements, later turned into Bangladesh independence movement, and the mentor of Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He is also remembered for his performance as the Minister for Civil Supply during the Bengal famine of 1943. In India, he is seen as a controversial figure; directly responsible for the 1946 Calcutta Killings, for which he is often referred as the "Butcher of Bengal" in West Bengal.
Suhrawardy was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Gray's Inn
Suhrawardy and Mahatma Gandhi in Noakhali before the partition of India. A young Sheikh Mujib looks on
Suhrawardy and Jinnah at a rally in Calcutta, 1946
Suhrawardy and Gandhi