Kazi Nazrul Islam Bidrohi Kobi (Rebel Poet)

Posted: 5 Feb,15 on Achievement

Kazi Nazrul Islam (24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary who spearheaded poetic works upholding serious profound rebellion against dictatorship and oppression. He has a outstanding contribution in Bangladeshi literature. Born into a Bengali Muslim Quazi (Kazi) family in the village of Churulia near Asansol in the Burdwan District of Bengal Presidency (now in West Bengal), Nazrul got religious training and filled in as a muezzin at a neighborhood mosque. He learned of poetry, drama, and literature while working with theatrical groups. Nazrul’s writings investigate topics, for example, love, freedom, and revolution; he contradicted all extremism, including religious and gender. All through his career, Nazrul composed short stories, books, and articles however is best known for his lyrics, in which he spearheaded new structures, for example, Bengali ghazals. Nazrul composed and created music for his about 4,000 tunes (counting gramophone records), on the whole known as Nazrul geeti (Nazrul melodies), which are generally prevalent today. Invited by the Government of Bangladesh, Nazrul and his family moved to Dhaka in 1972, where he passed on after four years. Dukhu Miya, the scratch named kabi, Kazi was rebel poet (Bengali dialect: বিদ্রোহী কবি) of Bengal. In any case he was additionally ace in composing poetry on romance, nature, brotherhood, nationalism and a lot more.

Nazrul came to the crest of fame in 1922, which remains his most popular work, winning the appreciation of India’s artistic classes by his portrayal of the rebel whose effect is wild and merciless even as their soul is profound:

I am the unutterable grief,
I am the trembling first touch of the virgin,
I am the throbbing tenderness of her first stolen kiss.
I am the fleeting glance of the veiled beloved,
I am her constant surreptitious gaze…
…
I am the burning volcano in the bosom of the earth,
I am the wild fire of the woods,
I am Hell’s mad terrific sea of wrath!
I ride on the wings of lightning with joy and profundity,
I scatter misery and fear all around,
I bring earth-quakes on this world! “(8th stanza)”
I am the rebel eternal,
I raise my head beyond this world,
High, ever erect and alone! “(Last stanza)” (English translation by Kabir Choudhary)

Distributed in the “Bijli” “বিজলি” (Lightning) magazine, the rebellious language and subject was famously gotten, concurring with the Non-collaboration development — the first and foremost, mass patriot battle of common rebellion against Britis rule.

Nazrul in the role of Narad in the stage drama Dhruba

List of works by Kazi Nazrul Islam

Poetry

Agni Bina (The Fiery Lute), 1922
Sanchita (Collected poems), 1925
Phanimanasa (The Cactus), 1927
Chakrabak (The Flamingo), 1929
Satbhai Champa (The Seven Brothers of Champa), juvenile poems, 1933
Nirjhar (Fountain), 1939
Natun Chand (The New Moon), 1939
Morubhaskar (The Sun in the Desert), 1951
Sanchayan (Collected Poems), 1955
Nazrul Islam: Islami Kobita (A Collection of Islamic Poems; Dhaka, Bangladesh: Islamic Foundation, 1982)