Kazi Nazrul Islam was born on 25 May 1899 and died on 29 August 1976, moniker Bidrohi Kobi (Rebel Poet), known universally as Nazrul, was a Bengali poet, musician and innovative who forged poetic works adopting penetrating spiritual insurgence against fascism and persecution. Kazi Nazrul Islam‘s poetry and nationalist involvement received him the most popular title of “বিদ্রোহী কবি” Bidrohī Kobi (Rebel Poet). Accomplishing a great body of applauded works through his life; Kazi Nazrul Islam is authoritatively recognised as the national poet of Bangladesh and greatly commemorated in India.
Kazi Nazrul Islam born into a Bengali Muslim Quazi (Kazi) family, Nazrul acknowledged religious education and worked as a muezzin at a native mosque. Kazi Nazrul Islam learned of poetry, literature, and drama whereas working with theatrical groups. After serving in the British Indian Army, Nazrul recognized himself as a journalist in Calcutta. He stormed the British Raj in India and discoursed rebellion through his poetic works, such as “Bidrohi” (“The Rebel”) and “Bhangar Gaan” (“The Song of Destruction”), as well as his publication “Dhumketu” (“The Comet”). His passionate involvement in the Indian independence effort often led to his incarceration by British authorities. While Nazrul stayed in prison, Kazi Nazrul Islam wrote the “Rajbandir Jabanbandi” “রাজবন্দীর জবানবন্দী” (“Deposition of a Political Prisoner”). Reconnoitring the life and conditions of the browbeaten crowds of India, Nazrul worked for their liberation.
Nazrul’s writings discover themes such as love, freedom, and rebellion; he conflicting all prejudice, including religious and gender. Throughout his career, Kazi Nazrul Islam wrote short stories, novels, and essays but is best known for his poems, in which he established new forms such as Bengali ghazals. Kazi Nazrul Islam wrote and composed music for his nearly 4,000 songs (including gramophone records), cooperatively known as Nazrul geeti (Nazrul songs), which are extensively popular today. In 1942 at the age of 43 he began pain from an unknown sickness, dropping his voice and memory. It is frequently said, the cause was slow poisoning by British Government but later a medical team in Vienna identified the disease as Morbus Pick, an erratic irredeemable neurodegenerative disease. It caused Nazrul’s health to weakening progressively and forced him to live in segregation for many years. Invited by the Government of Bangladesh, Nazrul and his family moved to Dhaka in 1972, where he died four years later.
Nazrul’s poetry is categorized by a plentiful use of bombastic devices, which Kazi Nazrul Islam employed to take opinion and sensuousness. He frequently wrote without maintenance for organisation or polish. His works have often been assessed for egotism, but his devotees counter that they transmit more a sense of self-confidence than ego. They cite his capability to rebel God yet preserve an innermost, modest dedication to Him. Nazrul’s poetry is observed as craggy but unique in contrast to Tagore’s erudite style. Kazi Nazrul Islam‘s use of Persian vocabulary was contentious but it broadened the possibility of his work. Nazrul’s works for children have won commendation for his use of gorgeous language, imagination, enthusiasm and a capability to captivate young readers.
Kazi Nazrul Islam is considered for his secularism. He was the first person to quote of Christians of Bengal in his novel Mrityukhudha. He was also the first manipulator of folk terms in Bengali literature. He first printed the Sickle and Hammer in any Indian magazine. Kazi Nazrul Islam established new styles and articulated fundamental ideas and emotions in a hefty body of work. Scholars credit him for fronting a cultural revitalization in Muslim-majority Bengal, “liberating” poetry and literature in Bengali from its primitive pattern. Kazi Nazrul Islam was endowed the Jagattarini Gold Medal in 1945 — the highest honour for work in Bengali literature by the University of Calcutta — and endowed the Padma Bhushan, one of India’s highest civilian honours in 1960. The Government of Bangladesh consulted upon him the status of being the “national poet”. He was endowed the Ekushey Padak by the Government of Bangladesh. He was endowed Honorary D.Litt. by the University of Dhaka. Many centres of learning and culture in India and Bangladesh have been established and devoted to his memory. The Kazi Nazrul Islam Benefaction is one of numerous scholarly institutions established to reservation and explains upon his thoughts and philosophy, as well as the conservation and analysis of the big and varied collection of his works. The Bangladesh Nazrul Sena is a large public organization working for the education of children throughout the country.
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