Kazi Nazrul Islam is the National Poet of Bangladesh. He was born in Village of Churulia near Asansol in the West Bengal on 24 May, 1899. Nazrul Islam was born in a Powerfull Muslim Taluqdar family and was the second of three sons and a daughter, Nazrul’s father Kazi Faqeer Ahmed was an Imam and caretaker of the local mosque and mausoleum. At the age of ten, Nazrul started working at his father’s place as a caretaker to support his family. He, later on, became the Muezzin. He joined a leto (travelling theatrical group) run by his uncle Fazl e Karim. Nazrul showed the symptoms of keen poetic and musical talent at his tender age and started writing songs when he was a member of a Leto group. His poems, songs, novels, short stories, plays and political activities expressed strong protest against various forms of oppression- slavery, communalism, feudalism and colonialism. Nazrul Islam, throughout his career wrote and composed 4,000 songs.
Renowned Nazrul Sangeet/Geeti singers include Firoza Begum, Suprava Sarkar, Angurbala, Indubala, Anjali Mukherjee, Jnanendra Prasad Goswami, Nilufar Yasmin (deceased), Manabendra Mukherjee (deceased),Kanika Majumder, Dipali Nag, Sukumar Mitra, Dhirendra Chandra Mitra, Dhiren Basu, Purabi Dutta, Nashid Kamal,Ferdous Ara, Fatema-tuz Zohra, Shahin Samad, Ramanuj Dasgupta and Susmita Goswami.
Nazrul's direct students who recorded for HMV were Juthika Roy, Girin Chakraborty, Binapani Devi, Dhiren Das, Suprava Sarkar, Harimoti, K. Mullick, Nitai Ghatak, Abbasuddin Ahmed, Angurbala, [[Kanan Devi] (deceased)], Dipali Nag, S. D. Burman (deceased), Mrinalkanti Ghosh, Geeta Basu, Kamal Dasgupta, Dhirendra Chandra Mitra, Jaganyay Mitra, Satya Chowdhury, Jnanendra Prasad Goswami, Kamala Jharia, Santosh Sengupta, Siddheswar Mukhopadhyay, Indubala, Chittaranjan Das and Shailo Devi.
Nazrul geeti (Nazrul songs), which are widely popular today. Some Notable songs:
Dolan Chapa (name of a faintly fragrant monsoon flower), poems and songs, 1923Bisher Bashi (The Poison Flute), poems and songs, 1924Bhangar Gan (The Song of Destruction), songs and poems, 1924 proscribe in 1924Chhayanat (The Raga of Chhayanat), poems and songs, 1925Chittanama (On Chittaranjan), poems and songs, 1925Samyabadi (The Proclaimer of Equality), poems and songs, 1926Puber Hawa (The Eastern Wind), poems and songs, 1926Sarbahara (The Proletariat), poems and songs, 1926Sindhu Hindol (The Undulation of the Sea), poems and songs, 1927Jinjir (Chain), poems and songs, 1928Pralaya Shikha (Doomsday Flame), poems and songs, 1930 proscribed in 1930Shesh Saogat (The Last Offerings), poems and songs, 1958
Nazrul reached the peak of fame with the publication of "Bidrohi" in 1922, which remains as his most famous work, winning the admiration of India's literary classes by his description of the rebel whose impact is fierce and ruthless even as their spirit is deep. Nazrul launched a bi-weekly magazine, publishing the first "Dhumketu" "ধূমকেতু" (Comet) on 12 August 1922. Earning the moniker of the "rebel poet”, Nazrul also aroused the suspicion of British authorities." Anondomoyeer Agomone" a political poem published in "Dhumketu" in September 1922 led to a police raid to the magazine's office. Being arrested Nazrul entered a lengthy plea before the judge in the court. He died on 29th August 1976.
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