Cultural personality Kazi Arif ‘clinically dead’

Eminent cultural personality Kazi Arif has been announced “clinically dead” at a New York hospital in the United States. He was 65.
Doctors at the Mount Sinai St. Luke's hospital in New York declared Arif clinically dead at 10:30am today (BST), Bangla daily Prothom Alo reports quoting Ahkam Ullaha, general secretary of a Bangladeshi recitation organisation in New York.  
They will announce his death officially tomorrow after removing his life support, Ahkam Ullaha said.
Arif was on the life support as his health condition deteriorated following a heart operation at the hospital on April 25, the daily said.

A freedom fighter and architect, Arif was famous for poetry recitation in Bangla.

Arif was born in October 31, 1952 at Rajbari in the then greater Faridpur. He grew up and took his education in Chittagong. He got his higher academic degree from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).
He took part in the 1971 Liberation War in Sector-1 under the leadership of Major (retd) Rafiq. He was one of the pioneering organisers who took Bangla recitation to the institutional level in the 80s. He was serving as the general secretary of Jatiya Basanta Utsab Udjapan Parishad (national spring festival celebration committee). One of his most popular recitation albums is 'Patraput'.