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 | | Rafiqul Islam, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Univ. of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh, and an authority on Nazrul is also expected to attend the Symposium. |
 | | Born in poverty in 1899 in what was then British ruled India, Nazrul was a freedom fighter who advocated for liberation from colonialism, sectarianism, religious fanaticism, gender oppression, social injustice and human degradation. |
 | | The vision of a just world that Nazrul fought for in the 1920s, which he held until his tragic death in 1976, is his enduring legacy for the lessons they can teach us today. |
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