Mahbub ul Alam Chowdhury (7 November 1927 – 23 December 2007) was a Bangladeshi poet and language movement activist. His poem Kandte Ashini, Fanshir Dabi Niye Eshecchi (Have Come Not to Weep, but to Rally for Their Hanging) (1952) is the first among poems written on the background of the Bengali language movement. Source: Wikipedia (en)