A condole-nce meeting commemo-rating Ahmad Rafique, a Language Movement veteran, will be held around 3:30pm today at the Abdul Karim Sahityabisharad Auditorium of Bangla Academy in Dhaka, said a press release.

Dhaka University Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury, convener of the national committee for the condolence meeting, will preside over the programme. 

Ahmad Rafique, a renowned cultural activist, Tagore exponent, poet, essayist and columnist, passed away at Dhaka's Birdem Hospital on October 1. He was 96.