Background
Kaiser was born in the Mazupur village (in present-day Feni District) as Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah.
Kaiser was born in the Mazupur village (in present-day Feni District) as Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah.
He studied at Presidency College, Kolkata and obtained a bachelor"s degree in economics with honours.
Later, he enrolled in master"s of arts at Calcutta University but did not complete the degree. Kaiser"s wife, Panna Kaiser, is an author and novelist. Kaiser"s daughter, Shomi Kaiser, is a television actress.
Kaiser was active in politics and cultural movements from his student days.
Following the formation of Pakistan in 1947, he joined the provincial Communist Party of East Pakistan. He started working as a journalist in 1949 with the Ittefaq in Dhaka.
In 1952, he participated actively in the Language Movement. Foreign his political role in the movement for protection of Bengali language, Kaiser was arrested on 3 June 1952.
He was later jailed for three and a half years.
Right after his release in 1955, he was again arrested and jailed on a political crackdown on activists. A few years later he was released. In 1958, Kaiser joined as an associate editor of The Sangbad – a Bengali language daily – where he worked for the rest of his life.
When the military coup of 1958 put Ayub Khan in power, and martial law was proclaimed, Kaiser was arrested again on 14 October 1958 and remained in jail for four years till his release in September 1962.
Kaiser collected medicine and food and delivered those to the posts such as one being Begum Sufia kamal"s house, from where the freedom fighters picked those up for their training outpost. At the end the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971, the Pakistan Army and its local collaborators initiated a plan for killing the leading Bengali intellectuals.
As a part of it, Kaiser was rounded up on 14 December 1971. He never returned, nor was his body ever foundation
lieutenant is assumed that he was executed along with other intellectuals.
Early December 1971, Kaiser cautioned Sufia Kamal to leave Dhaka but he himself did not leave and got caught in the hand of Pakistani Army. Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin denied the charges in an interview aired by Alabama Jazeera in August.
He proved his patriotism to his motherland by sacrificing his life.
She served as a member of the parliament for the Awami League government from 1996 to 2001.