History bristles with paradoxes and ironies. One such irony is that Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) is our “national” poet. For our national ruling classes and their allies have long come to stand in ...

Kazi Nazrul Islam. Till the late 1990s, recordings of Nazrul’s poem Bidrohi — in the voice of his eldest son Kazi Sabyasachi — would be played at puja pandals, political rallies and cultural ...

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) enacts insurrectionary ruptures and breaks with certain old traditions in Bengali poetry while inaugurating new ones. Because of his explosively anticolonial poem ...

On the bank of the river Arial Khan in the district of Faridpur, there stood a small hamlet called Mohanpur. Most of the villagers were Muslim farmers. On the edge of the village, at a distance ...

He responded by writing the poem ‘Aj Srishti Shukher Ullashe’ to thank Tagore. Kazi Nazrul Islam, the rebel poet. One of the greatest figures in Bengali literature, second to none. Kazi Nazrul Islam ...

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress Party chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday paid rich tributes to rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 126th birth anniversary.

Poetry dipped in electric energy defined Kazi Nazrul Islam. Beyond poetry, it was the world which moved him. And in the universe of his soul, he gave free rein to his verses, which went into the ...

People from all walks of life have paid homage to National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam on the 48th anniversary of his death. On Tuesday morning, various educational, social, cultural and political ...

It marks the birth anniversary of Kazi Nazrul Islam. He was a famous Bengali poet, musician, and freedom fighter. This day is a public holiday in Tripura. It is celebrated with joy in West Bengal ...

On the occasion of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s birth anniversary, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has stressed the ...

Highlighting the universal appeal of Nazrul's poetry, Dr Kamal, who is also a poet, stressed the need to expand translation efforts to present the rich literary heritage of Bengal on the global stage.