![]() ![]() However, what he had seen during these three years influenced Nazrul's writing deeply. After serving for three years in the British Army, during which he also witnessed the first world war, Nazrul left the army and went on to seek his writing career. At the age of eighteen, he joined the British Army to quench his thirst for adventure and to enhance his understanding of the politics of the time. It was also then that his understanding of Hinduism broadened as he read Hindu scriptures along with Persian and Sanskrit literature. Although he received his education at a local mosque, it was when he travelled with a theatrical group Letor Dal that he started writing poems and songs. But one good thing is that Kazi Nazrul University in Asansol has taken the initiative to translate Nazrul's work."īorn in a Muslim Bengali family in Burdwan district, West Bengali, Nazrul, as he is popularly called, was drawn to poetry and art ever since he was a child. Nazrul work has been translated into several Indian and foreign languages but most of that is not available now. But sadly, Nazrul's work couldn't transcend linguistic boundaries. Tagore's work was widely popular and his work has been translated into almost all Indian languages and also foreign languages. ![]() Thus, Nazrul received a huge readership at that time. Bengala itself is a language that was spoken in several regions, also in eastern parts of the Indian subcontinent. Sarkar further says, "Nazrul was extremely popular in Bengal. High, ever erect and alone!" (Translated by Kabir Chowdhury)Īlso read: Nida Fazli: The people’s poet who distilled life I ride on the wings of lightning with joy and profundity, I am the burning volcano in the bosom of the earth, I am the fleeting glance of the veiled beloved, I am the throbbing tenderness of her first stolen kiss. I am the trembling first touch of the virgin, Nazrul is a poet epitomizing the variety and the manyness of India." I believe that if Nazrul's work is translated properly into several languages, he will be established as a great voice of national integrity. ![]() This poem has been translated into as many as 80-85 languages by Kazi Nazrul University. ![]() Subodh Sarkar, a poet and a professor from Kolkata and a member of Sahitya Akademi, while talking about Nazrul says, "Nazrul's 'Bidrohi' was not just Nazrul's most popular poem, but remains the most popular Bengali poem to date. Today marks the 123rd birth anniversary of this rebel, who went to become one of the most celebrated Bengali writers of all time. In the midst of the times when communal dissonance, class and gender oppression built a sad omnipresent reality of British India, emerged a young poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam. ![]()
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