High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tofail Ahmed (1920 at Baralia village, Lakshmipur District in Bangladesh - 2002 in Dhaka, Bangladesh) was a well known Bangladeshi researcher of Folk Art. He was also a collector of Folk artifacts and has authored several books on Bangladeshi Folk arts and Crafts. He was awarded the Shilu Abed Karushilpa Prize (Shilu Abed Crafts Award) for his contribution to Folk Arts and Craft in 1998. He was also elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Bangla Academy in 2001.