| Haider Akbar Khan Rono | |
| Native Name: | হায়দার আকবর খান রনো |
| Native Name Lang: | bn |
| Birth Date: | 31 August 1942 |
| Birth Place: | Calcutta, Bengal Province, British India |
| Death Place: | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Alma Mater: | Notre Dame College, Dhaka University of Dhaka |
| Years Active: | 1960–2024 |
| Party: | Communist Party of Bangladesh |
| Children: | 1 |
| Relatives: | Syed Nausher Ali (grandfather) |
Haider Akbar Khan Rono (31 August 1942 – 11 May 2024) was a Bangladeshi politician, theorist and writer.[1] [2] He was a member of the presidium of the Communist Party of Bangladesh.[3] He published 25 books and many booklets.[1] He received the Bangla Academy Literary Award (2021).[4] [5]
Rono was born on 31 August 1942 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Kolkata, India) to engineer Hatem Ali Khan.[6] [7] His grandfather, Syed Nausher Ali, was an Indian politician and his younger brother, Haider Anwar Khan Juno, was a leftist politician and freedom fighter.[6] [8]
Rono passed the Matriculation Examination from St Gregory's High School in 1958 and was added to the 12th position of the merit list of the East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).[6] Before, he studied at Jessore Zilla School and Rajshahi Collegiate School.[6] In 1960, he passed the ISC from Notre Dame College, Dhaka.[6] In 1960, he was admitted in the Department of Physics at the University of Dhaka,[6] [1] but couldn't finish the course for imprisonment and other causes.[6] [1] Later, when he was in prison, he completed a bachelor's degree in law.[6]
Rono had to face imprisonment four times and had to go into hiding seven times for political reasons.
In 2006, Rono was awarded the Prothom Alo Best Book of the Year 1411.[9]
Rono spoke against International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.[10]
Since 2012, Rono was a presidium member of the Communist Party of Bangladesh.[11]
In January 2022, Rono was awarded the Bangla Academy Literary Award.[12]
Rono died at a private hospital in Dhaka on 11 May 2024, at the age of 81.[13] [14]