Ohidul Alam was a Bangladeshi writer, poet, historian, and journalist.
[1][2][3] Alam was born on 1 January 1911 into a conservative Muslim family in Fateyabad, Hathazari Upazila, Chittagong District, East Bengal, British India.
He was able to interact with Abdul Quadir, Habibullah Chowdhury, and Kazi Nazrul Islam, when they visited his house.
He also worked at the Satyabarta weekly and The Daily Naya Jamana, both of which were based in Chittagong.
He was the editor of the East Pakistan-based Daily Purba Pakistan which was owned by the poet Abdus Salam, who was also his relative.