Mushtari Shafi

Begum Mushtari Shafi (15 January 1938 – 20 December 2021)[1] was a Bangladeshi writer, entrepreneur, women's leader and social organiser.

Shafi was born on 15 January 1938 in West Bengal of the then British India.

[2] She worked as a Shobdo Sainik at the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

[1] Shafi was selected an honorary fellow of Bangla Academy in 2016 for her contribution to the Bangladesh Liberation War.

[3] Shafi died on 20 December 2021, at the age of 83 in Dhaka.