[1] Chowdhury was born on 2 February 1907 in his maternal home at the village of Changaon in Madan, Netrokona of the erstwhile Bengal Presidency's Mymensingh district.

The younger brother, Ghazi Askar, permanently settled in Sonajor, where his descendants live and were granted the title of Chowdhury.

For a long time, he was the director of Netrokona children's organisation Modhumachi Koci-kacar Mela and the elected general secretary of Red Crescent Society.

He became a literary editor of Nazrul's Daily Nabajug and simultaneously directed the Aguner Phulki children's paper under the pen name of "Atashbaz".

From Netrokona, he used to edit and publish the fortnightly Uttar Akash and literary periodical Srijani to motivate the young Bengali writers of the time.

Notable writers that wrote for these two magazines were Rafiq Azad, Helal Hafiz, Jivana Chaudhury, Shantimaya Viswasa and Nirmalendu Goon.

Following his death, essayist Abu Jafar Shamsuddin wrote an article in which he said: ... Kazi Nazrul Islam was the full moon in the young Muslim society of that time.

[3] Every year on Pohela Falgun, a poet or literatteur is awarded this, and past winners include Rafiq Azad, Kabir Chowdhury, Rabeya Khatun, Bulbon Osman, Abu Hasan Shahriar, Anisul Hoque, Helal Hafiz, Selim Al Deen, Humayun Ahmed, Mahadev Saha, Nirmalendu Goon, Jatin Sarker and Muhammed Zafar Iqbal.