He began composing songs for leto singing groups from his early teens when he was exposed to Hindu myths and Puranic stories. ![]() ![]() Nazrul began writing as a young boy and was deeply attracted to the traditions of bardic and folk poetry of rural Bengal, especially around his village Churulia near present day Asansol. The answer to that may lie not just in Nazrul’s life but in his radical poetics as well. In the public sphere, why has Nazrul remained a slightly indistinct figure if we compare him to other stalwarts of Bangla poetry? Is there a reason why we fail to remember his name when we discuss poetry that had shaped Bengali imagination? However, it is also true that Kazi Nazrul Islam, who is revered in Bangladesh as her national poet, is much less admired than Rabindranath in popular imagination. ![]() On May 25, we ought to have celebrated the 121 st birth anniversary of a great poet and a revolutionary thinker but in West Bengal, where he was born, a natural calamity and a virus put an end to that.
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