A  recipient of  several  national recognitions,  including the   prestigious Bangla  Academy Literary Award,   Haroon Habib has been a  powerful voice in Bangladesh’s literature and journalism for past several decades .  He is a  veteran of Bangladesh’s   Liberation War of 1971 who also   had worked as  the warfront journalist for the  two prominent media outlets  run by  the wartime Bangladesh government the  – Swadhin Bangla Beter Kendra and Joy Bangla Weekly  .                                                                                                                                                     A committed writer  and an authority in the field of liberation war research,  Mr Habib   authored more than 50   books – Short Stories, novels,  essays,   plays, poetries, research works etc  --  the vast majority of which depict  the time that Bangladesh, the former East Pakistan,  had to pass  through during  the crucial 1971  and the periods  that followed after the assassination of the nation’s founding father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 .  One of his   major  research works  is  on   India’s role  in the Bangladesh Liberation War  and also the roles of the governments and people  of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam and Meghalaya, the four bordering states  which had  to shelter  10 million Bangladesh refuges who had to cross the international border to save  lives from the genocidal Pakistani army.    

Also a  senior journalist and columnist, Mr Habib   led the country’s national news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha(BSS)  as the Chief Editor and Managing Director,    worked as  the Dhaka Correspondent of leading Indian   newspaper  THE HINDU and FRONTLINE magazine for nearly three decades,  and also  served  as Bangladesh Correspondent of the  German Radio, Deutsche Welle  during his professional  career .

A well known social and cultural activist, Mr Habib has been involved  in the civil society and Freedom Fighters’ movement for the  revival of the secular national spirit of 1971 and  trial of the  ‘war criminals’, to bring those offenders  to justice  who committed crimes against humanity as cohorts of the genocidal  Pakistan army .