![]() ![]() ![]() But this great writer claimed world citizenship: ‘I don’t belong to just this country (Bengal), this society. Nazrul is best known in the Indian subcontinent as ‘the Rebel Poet of Bengal’. Yet his writings continue to be little known in the West. Both countries have educational institutions named after Nazrul and Bangladesh declared him their national poet. With passionate zeal, he championed Hindu-Muslim solidarity and equality for women, youth, the disabled, the poor and all who are oppressed.īorn in India, he died in Bangladesh, and, in his latter years, received many honours from both countries. He was the world’s most prolific songwriter-composer and some of his most productive years were spent working for All India Radio. Nazrul is a great literary hero, poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist, journalist, singer, actor, soldier, and revolutionary, who used his pen to fight colonialism, fascism, religious fundamentalism and elitism. Her child’s corpse lying in her hut, she goes begging from door to door.įriends, I can say no more: poison burns in my breast.Īll I’ve seen and heard have made me mad, so I say whatever comes to mind. Heedless of the hunger of millions of children….Ī child is snatched from the mother’s breast and we appeal to the tiger to eat grass! … We raise grand slogans to bring about independence. Image licensed via Wikimedia Commonsīrothers, I am no prophet of the future I am a poet of today.Ĭall me a poet or not, in silence I’ll bear whatever you say….
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