Mir Mosharraf Hossain, also known as Rajib Mir, former teacher of Journalism department at Chittagong University and Jagannath University, and also a writer, researcher and an activist in various human rights movements, died in India early Saturday.

Rajib, a former student of Dhaka University’s Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, was undergoing treatment for liver cirrhosis at a hospital in Chennai, breathed his last 1:37am, reports the UNB.

He left behind his 15-month-old daughter Bibhor and wife Sumona Khan.