Abu Jar Md. Akkas

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mobile: (+)880-1817-030811
E-mail: ajmakkas «at» ajmakkas «dot» com
Homepage: www.ajmakkas.com

More than 30 years of experience in journalism across newsroom positions.

Work

• Deputy editor, New Age, Dhaka. Since Aug. 2015.

Education

• M. A., English language, Univ. of Dhaka. 1991–1992.

Publication

• Ed. ‘হরফ বিচার: বাঙ্গালা টাইপ ও কেস’ (An analysis of letters: Bengali sorts and type case). Bodhshabdo, Hoogli. Oct. 2022.
• “সময়ের ধারায় বাংলার ছাপায় বিরামচিহ্ন” (Punctuation marks in Bengali print down the ages), Bodhshabdo. Bodhshabdo, Hoogli. Paush 1428 BS (Feb. 2022).
• Comp. & ed. The Stylebook of New Age. Media New Age, Dhaka. Oct. 2004.
• ‘The Holiday’, Banglapedia. 1st. ed., pp. 155–156. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka, Jan. 2003.
• ‘Extended Bengali Script: A Survey of Usage’, 24 Oct. 1999. Now hosted as ‘Sources for Nukta-like Objects in Bengali Text’ on Unicode mail list archive.
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Conference

• ‘Dating the first Bengali block print specimen: a review’, Two Centuries of Indian Print, Jadavpur Univ., Kolkata. July 2017.

Competence

• Writing, editing, proofreading and typesetting; FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.

Languages

• Bengali (native), English (proficient), Hindi (advanced), French (elementary), Urdu (elementary), Esperanto (elementary) and Russian (beginner).

Interests

• Reading, computing, typography and dictionary collecting.

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