Thursday, July 3, 2008

Nazrul Islam (National Poet)






Nazrul was born on 24 May 1899 in the village of Churulia in Burdwman, West Bengal. His father, Kazi Fakir Ahmed, was the Imam of a mosque and the caretaker of a mausoleum. After his father's death in 1908, Nazrul took up his father's job as caretaker and also served as muazzin of the mosque to support his family. He passed the lower primary examination from his village Maktab.

National poet of Bangladesh, called the 'rebel poet' for his fierce resistance to all forms of repression. His poetry, with its vibrant rhythms and iconoclastic themes, forms a striking contrast to Tagore's poetry. Though he respected and admired the older poet, he wrote outside the sphere of Rabindranath's influence and paved the way for the modern Bangla poems of the post-thirties. Please visit http://banglapedia.org/HT/I_0109.HTM for more information about Nazrul.