What is Forum (Bangladesh)?
{{Refimprove|date=May 2018}} {{Infobox Magazine | title = Forum | image_file = | image_size = | image_caption = | company = The Daily Star (owned by Mediastar) | total_circulation = | founded = 1969 | finaldate = April 2013 | frequency = Monthly | language = English | category = Newsmagazine | editor = Kajalie Shehreen Islam | editor_title = Forum Editor | country = Bangladesh | website = http://www.thedailystar.net }} '''''Forum''''' was an English-language monthly [[news]] and [[current affairs]] [[magazine]] in [[Bangladesh]]. It started in 1969 when Bangladesh was [[East Pakistan]]. [[Hameeda Hossain]] and [[Rehman Sobhan]] started the magazine. Hossain is a [[human rights]] [[activist]]. Sobhan is an [[economist]]. The magazine was against the West Pakistani establishment. It was for [[democracy]] and economic reforms in the Pakistani union. The [[Pakistan Army]] shut down the magazine on 26 March 1971, during the early hours of [[Operation Searchlight]]. In 2006, ''[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]]'', began re-publishing the magazine every month. Shah Hussain Imam was the executive editor of the magazine. The editorial board was the original ''Forum'' founders Hameeda Hossain and [[Rehman Sobhan]] and [[Mahfuz Anam]], editor and publisher of ''The Daily Star'', [[Matiur Rahman (journalist)|Matiur Rahman]], editor and publisher of [[Prothom Alo]], and [[Anisuzzaman]], a professor of Bengali at the [[University of Dhaka]]. In April 2013, ''Forum'' published its last issue.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news/editors-note-3|title=Editor's Note|date=31 March 2013|work=The Daily Star|access-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> Writers from across [[South Asia]], such as [[Amartya Sen]], [[Tariq Ali]], [[Kuldip Nayar]] and [[Ahmed Rashid]] wrote for the magazine. ==References== {{Reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://www.thedailystar.net/forum/ Website] [[Category:19