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updated on September 19, 2004
Some popular songs and poems of Nazrul Islam
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Nazrul Jayanti:(May 26th,11th Jaystha) Birth anniversary of poet Kazi Nazrul Islam (1898-1976) He is also known as the rebel poet. From his early childhood he showed the acumen of writing good poems. The English colonial rulers and the rich hindu influential leaders did their best not letting him publishing his works. Many of his literary works considers to be best in the Bengali literature. He is even considered to be most humanist poet India has ever produced. Unlike Tagore and many other hindu bengali literary figures he was secular. Kazi Nazrul Islam is the national poet of Bangladesh. He is widely admired in West Bengal too. He is quite unknown in the West, only a few books are translated into English which are also badly translated. Musical soirees, seminars are held every year to commemorate his birth day. Bangladesh government issued a postal stamp with his potrait. His mausoleum is situated near the Dhaka
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