Amar Latif [SEP] occupation
Amar Latif
Amar Latif (born 4 December 1974) is a blind British entrepreneur, television presenter, actor, director, motivational speaker and world traveller. His blindness is due to the incurable eye condition retinitis pigmentosa. By the age of 20, he had 95% sight loss.
Traveleyes.
Amar is the founder and director of Traveleyes, the world's first commercial international air tour operator company to specialise in serving blind as well as sighted travellers. Established in 2005, Traveleyes now runs over 60 holidays a
Congress Literature Group from the age of 16.
Career.
He moved to Dhaka in July 1948 and joined Radio Pakistan as a staff artiste. He started writing songs since then. He wrote over 1500 songs. Latif was a government officer in various capacities from 1974 to 1993.
In 1953, first Latif composed the song "Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano", written by Abdul Gaffar Choudhury which is later re-composed to the current form by Altaf Mahmud. He wrote songs like "Ora Amar Mukher Kotha"