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  Kazi Nazrul Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bangla: কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম) (1899-1976) was a Bengali poet.
Nazrul came of age under the shadow of Tagore, whom he admired, and who was fond of him as well.
In addition to his poetic corpus, Nazrul, who was a talented musician, also composed more than three thousand songs, which constitute a complete genre in Bengali music today, under the name of nazrul-geeti, and remains immensely popular, with a large number of artistes and an active recording industry, both in West Bengal and Bangladesh.
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 Birth Centenary of Kazi Nazrul Islam the National Poet of Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kazi Nazrul Islam, known as the 'Rebel' poet in Bengali literature and the 'Bulbul' or Nightingale of Bengali music, was one of the most colourful personalities of undivided Bengal between 1920 and 1930.
In 1914, Nazrul escaped from the rigours of the tea-shop to re-enter a school in Darirampur village, Trishal in Mymensingh district.
In 1921, Nazrul was engaged to be married to Nargis, the niece of a well known Muslim publisher Ali Akbar Khan, in Daulatpur, Comilla, but on the day of the wedding (18th June, 1921) Nazrul suddenly left the place.
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 Kazi Nazrul Islam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When still a school student in his teens Nazrul joined the newly recruited Bengali regiment (1916) and was sent to Mesopotamia some months before the armistice.
The regiment was not given a chance to face battle but all the same Nazrul got his fill of the fighting gusto which later-found expression in poetic effusion and warmth.
Nazrul was an emotional soul but his emotion was unstable and volatile.
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 Life history of Kazi Nazrul Islam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nazrul a Havildar (seargent) in the army in Karachi.
Nazrul faces tremendous financial hardship, especially due to non-payment for his writings by several publishers; faces health crisis as well as growing threats and harassment by both the British government and the Hindu and Muslim conservative members of society; even subjected to physical attacks.
Nazrul trained under him, and upon Ustad Jamiruddin Khan's death in 1932, succeeded him as the chief trainer, in addition to his current position as the chief composer.
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 Bangladesh showbiz - News - The 102nd birth anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam
Nazrul's songs and poems were also a great source of inspiration for freedom fighters during liberation war in 1971.
Kazi Nazrul Islam - Nazrul, the son of Kaji Fakir Ahmed and Zaheda Khatun, was born in 1899 in an undivided India.
Ashraf Siddiqui spoke from the audience row reminding that Nazrul and Rabindranath are equally honoured in the Barak valley of neighbouring state of Assam in India.
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azi Nazrul Islam, better known as the rebel Bengali poet, is considered as the second poet of the Rabindra period, at least in its later phase.
Nazrul Islam was a true poet of revolution equally keen on national liberation of India and removal of exploitation from the prevailing society of ours.
Nazrul Islam is a great modern Bengali poet who succeeded in capturing the masses through his literary charisma.
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 Kazi Nazrul Islam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nazrul was born on 24 May 1899 in the village of Churulia in Burdwan, west bengal.
Nazrul was most deeply influenced by the leadership of Mostafa Kamal Pasha, who had overthrown the feudal sultanate and turned Turkey into a secular and modern republic.
Nazrul was terribly shocked by this death and in the view of many this marked a turning point in his life.
www.nazrulsena.org /nazrulpage/banglapedia_nazrul.htm   (4163 words)

  
 KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kazi Nazrul Islam was born on the 25th May 1898 at Churulia in the district of Burdawan, West Bengal, India.
Nazrul Academy, an institution works for research and propagating the poets life, works and ideals, is situated in Dhaka with several branches in divisional towns.
The rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam was crowned in 1972 as the national poet of Bangladesh.
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 Kazi Nazrul Islam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In November/December of 1921, at the presence of Nazrul and others and under the leadership of Muzaffar Ahmad, it was decided to form the Communist Part of India at 3/4 C Taltola Lane.
Nazrul started a 39-days hunger strike in protest against abuse of political prisoners, which created nationwide agitation in his support.
On 15th December 1929, Nazrul was given a reception on behalf of the nation at the Albert Hall in Calcutta.
www.nazrulsena.org /nazrul.htm   (1735 words)

  
 Nazrul Sangeet-2 - index page - Free MP3 downloads, CDs, Bio Info, Tour Dates, Lyrics and More!"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is the noblest articulation of Bengali culture, psyche and intellect.
Kazi Nazrul Islam is the national poet of Bangladesh.
With her seasoned performance in rendering the songs and Nazrul's exceptional harmony in tune and words, melody and thoughts, theme and images; the extra-ordinary rich songs, diverse in moods and subjects, touch the chords of every mind and have indeed become a constant source of joy.
artists.iuma.com /IUMA/Bands/Nazrul_Sangeet2   (252 words)

  
 Black History Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Throughout the 1920s, Kagi Nazrul Islam was one of the cultural pillars of the Indian Independence movement.
Nazrul mixed with students and intellectuals in bookshops and cafes and enthusiastically entered into discussions on literature, art and politics.
Nazrul was, at the same time, developing the Bengali version of the "ghazal" - a type of song inspired initially by Persian poetry and sung hitherto only in Urdu and dealing primarily with personal love and yearning.
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 GN Online: Poet for all lands, all ages, all people   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nazrul regarded Rabindranath Tagore as his artistic guru and in 1921, went to Santiniketan to seek the blessings of his mentor.
Nazrul, who by then had penned several inspiring patriotic poems and songs including the sensational Bidrohi (The Rebel), now found a new platform to express his revolutionary fervour.
Nazrul broke his fast more than a month later and was eventually released from prison in December 1923.
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 Kazi Nazrul ISLAM - Vikipedio
Kazi Nazrul ISLAM, (bengallingve কাজী নজরূল ইসলাম) nask.
Ankaŭ la de li uzataj formoj estis Hindi-tipike sinkretismaj : Li uzis sanksritajn kaj arabajn versojn tiom bone kaj facile kiom tradicie bengalajn, li aludis je hinduaj mitoj tiombone kiom persaj poeziaj temoj, kaj instigoj naskitaj de la Rusa Revolucio de 1917
Vivo: Male al TAGORE (kiu naskiĝis en riĉega kaj klerega familio) li naskis en malriĉa familio, lia patro zorgis vilaĝan moskeon, kaj pro ties morto Nazrul devis ĉesi frue studon, kaj anstataui lin eĉ infane.
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 Crime News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nazrul is also the editor of the daily Tathya and presently the vice president of Khulna Press Club.
Nazrul Islam, director of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), was not present when the elite anti--crime force raided his house and his newspaper office.
When contacted over phone this evening, an official of RAB said that they raided the residence of Nazrul Islam to nab a "top-ranking leader of an outlawed party who was already staying there." The official said that the outlaw escaped from the house sensing the presence of RAB members.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/oct/09/09102004cr.htm   (694 words)

  
 Kazi Nazrul Islam:Poet-icon of Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
azi Nazrul Islam was born on the 25th May 1898 at Churulia in the district of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the poet was moved to Dhaka, capital of newly liberated Bangladesh situated 125 km west of Trishal a small township in Mymensingh district where Kazi Nazrul Islam spent several years during his boyhood.
Pakistan issued also a set of 2 stamps on the great poet,musician and patriot Kazi Nazrul Islam in the year 1968.Pakistan made mistake by writing the poets birth year 1889,these stamps were not issued.Some are known to have released in error.Pakistan postal authority again made mistake and stated the poet's birth year 1899.
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 The ephemeral Jhinge Phool
For some strange reasons only known to Nazrul and his would-be bride’s own folks, the marriage never solemnized (some say that he married the girl but only to fled the house where the marriage was supposed to be consummated).
Nazrul himself had said before that his personal life should be kept separate from his literature.
Nazrul was such a odd personality that there are much confusion about the year he was born.
humanists.net /avijit/jaffor/nazrul_jayanti.htm   (1246 words)

  
 Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nazrul stopped writing when he was in his forties and remained buried in a mental abyss for four long decades.
Nazrul Islam, a most versatile and prolific genius of this sub-continent, has at least 50 books of poetry and songs, 4,000 songs and ghazals, 6 books of stories and novels, 3 books of translations, 53 plays, verse-plays and operas, 2 movie scripts, 5 books of essays and other kinds of prose writings.
Nazrul, being a highly sensitive man was also extremely grateful to her because she defied the whole society when she agreed to give her daughter’s hand to Nazrul.
independent-bangladesh.com /news/may/27/27052005mg.htm   (19446 words)

  
 GN Online: Duty Calls: Keeping the streets clean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nazrul Islam works for the Dubai Munici-pality as a cleaner.
At the end of the 32-day festival, 28-year-old Islam will have extra money to send to his family, and this will come in handy for the Eid Al Adha festival when his brothers will probably sacrifice a goat as part of the religious ritual.
Islam paid 130,000 taka (Dh9,000) to the manpower agent in Bangladesh to get the job, visa and air ticket five years ago.
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Although numerical superiority cannot be used as a gaze for devotion it may be argued that Nazrul had as much devotion for the Hindu gods as the Islamic Allah at least as a songwriter.
Nazrul wrote sixteen plays although many of them are hardly known to the readers.
That thesis will be as incredible as claiming Nazrul as a Bangladeshi poet (I heard it several times) as he was born in Churulia, Bardhowan, a typical heartland of West Bengali culture and spent the most creative period of his life in Calcutta.
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Kazi Nazrul Islam is popularly known as rebel poet (Vidrohi Kabi).
The resiment was not given a chance to face battle but all the same Nazrul got his fill of the fighting gusto which later-found expression in poetic effusion and warmth.
Nazrul Islam wrote a good numbers of valuable poems, songs, novels, dramas.
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 News Item
Often known as the "Rebel Poet," Kazi Nazrul Islam, the National Poet of Bangladesh, described himself as "belonging to the world." A creative genius beyond compare, Kazi Nazrul Islam has had a profound and lasting influence on the cultural backdrop of Bengali music and literature.
As a passionate champion of communal, religious and ideological harmony, Nazrul Islam directed a significant portion of his creative efforts to eloquent and inspiring works of poetry and music, dedicated attempts to quell the rising tide of communal strife and violence, endemic of his times.
An extraordinary voice of Islam, Kazi Nazrul Islam not only proclaimed the universal Islamic values of peace, freedom, justice, harmony, and cooperation, his "Shyama Sangeet" compositions have been loved and revered by the Hindus of Bengal all along.
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 Virtual Bangladesh : Literature: Poetry : Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam, popularly known asbidrohi kobi (Rebel poet) took the bengali literary world by storm by his poem, bidrohi or the Rebel.
Both Nazrul's poems and prose writing exuberate a certain force and energy, denouncing all social and religious bigotry and plurality, cultural differences and oppression as the principal reasons for national discord and disharmony.
Nazrul also got equal prominence and popularity in writing songs, almost 3,000 of them, the largest by any Bengali poet and composing music.
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 .:: THE BANGLADESH OBSERVER - Net Edition ::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Later, a discussion was held at the auditorium of local Shilpakala Academy with M. Tariqul Islam, Deputy Commissioner and President of Nazrul's Birth Celebration Committee in the chair.
It is mentioned here that Kazi Nazrul Islam stayed at Daulatpur with his first wife Nargis Akhter Khanam and composed many poems and songs.
"Nazrul created a style of his own breaking the strong circle created by Rabindra Nath Tagore, Muhitlal Mazumder and Biharilal in Bengali poem and his rhythm in music was also unparalled" the speakers asserted.
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 Prof
Islam is married to a physician(Gyaenocologist) and has a daughter studying.
Nazrul Islam and syeda Anjumanara Begum, “Synthesis of Substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrido[3,4-C] coumarins”.J. Bangladesh Academy of sciences,Vol-23(2),193-198,1999.
Nazrul Islam, “synthesis on the basis of 9-Phenacyliden-10-sila-2-azanthracene,” Proceedings of The international Conference on chemistry” Indian Chemical Society, Calcutta,1999.
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 banglarglimpse.com
Nazrul Institute, an institution works for research and propagating the poets life, works and ideals, is situated in Dhaka with several branches in divisional towns.
Under the auspicious of Bangladesh government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the poet was moved to Dhaka, capital of newly liberated Bangladesh situated 125 km west of Trishal a small township in Mymensingh district where Kazi Nazrul Islam spent several years during his boyhood.
Muzaffar Ahmed was a regular contributer of the Dhumketu(eng: Comet), a bangla literary magazine edited by Kazi Nazrul Islam from Calcutta.
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 Main page for SOUTHASIA TIMES
Kazi Nazrul Islam, better known as the “Rebel Poet” of Bengal for his famous poem “The Rebel” that shook the entire Indian subcontinent in 1920s, is still barely known to the West.
Nazrul holds the world record of recorded songs, many of which he himself composed the music for as well as sang.
For the extraordinary universal appeal of Nazrul's works, their popularity around the world is bound to flourish, as evidenced by the growing number of languages—at least twenty to this date, varying in number from just a single poem to more—into which his poems have been translated.
www.southasiatimes.com /article/june2000/al-culturec.htm   (1110 words)

  
 Birth Centenary of Kazi Nazrul Islam , the National Poet Of Bangladesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nazrul Institute was established in February 1985 by the Government of Bangladesh, with a view to keeping alive his memory as well as conducting research on his works.
A large number of Nazrul lovers visited the stall every day during the fair and a good number of books published by the Institute are sold.
Nazrul Institute is now a leading cultural centre of the country.
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 nazrul
The national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam was born in Churulia, Burdhaman district, West Bengal in 1899 (1306 Bengali year.) He didn't grow up with the luxury of enjoying his boyhood, rather lost his father in his early life.
Nazrul holds the world record of recorded songs, most of which, the music were composed by Nazrul himself.
of August in1976, The national poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam was laid to eternal rest by the mosque of Dhaka University.
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 art & culture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A lot of cultural programmes are being held across the country to celebrate the 105th birth anniversary of the National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam from May 25.
Besides the presentations of Nazrul's songs, the artistes are also presenting dance, drama and recitation of Nazrul's poems.
Among the celebrity singers Khil Khil Kazi, grand daughter of Kazi Nazrul Islam, and Shabnam Mushtari sang Nazrul's song at the inaugural function.
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