BANGLADESHI FAVOURITE POET

        Kazi Nazrul Islam is Bangladeshi favorite poet. We admire all the great poets but we simply love Kazi Nazrul Islam. His poems have a great attraction for us.

        Kazi Nazrul Islam is our teacher, our guide; we turn to him for inspiration and guidance. We like to recite some of the most famous lines of his poems. They give us hope and curare at the time of my despair. Our heart dances when we read his poems. Though we not a good singer, we like to sing some of his famous songs. We love and admire Kazi Nazrul Islam for his writings of revolutionary spirits.

       Kazi Nazrul Islam was born at Churulia in the district of Burdwan in 1899. He was born in a poor but noble family, but he did not get a good chance for reguar education. He was a restless child of Nature. The school education had no charm for him. He walked about and received his lessons from whatever he saw or heard all around him. As a school pupil, as a soldier in the First World War, he gathered a lot of experiences.

     His books ‘Agnibina’, ‘Bisher Banshi’, ‘Bidrohi’, ‘Sarbanhara’, ‘Bulbul’, ‘Dhumketu’ etc. are his notable works. They have a great contribution towards Bangla literature. He composed thousand of songs and ‘gajals’. He also wrote many novels, stories, dramas and poems. He was sent to jail for his ‘Dhumketu’ and ‘Agnibina’. His poems inspired thousand of people to fight for our independence.

    Kazi Nazrul Islam’s life was full of struggles. He always led a reckless life. He seldom took care of his life. As a result, in 1945 he was attacked with an incurable disease. He suffered from this disease till his death. In 1972 he was brought to free Bangladesh from West Bengal and he was honoured as the national poet of our country. He breathed his last on 29^th August, 1976 in Dhaka.

     Kazi Nazrul Islam was at the same time a poet, a musician a novelist, a story- writer and a dramatist. He is well-known as a rebel poet. He was also a politically conscious person. He always fought for establishing social justice. His Islamic poems and songs inspire the Muslim community. We the bangalees are very proud that we could bring him in Bangladesh and honour him greatly.