Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976), was a poet, novelist, lyricist and musician in Bengali, and was popularly known as the rebel poet.

Kazi Nazrul Islam’s work remains just as relevant and beautiful 123 years after his birth.

Today marks the 125th birth anniversary of our National Poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam. His philosophy of life vastly reflects upon his works.

Like a wounded bird, my songs/ tumble down at your feet, my love.

I wonder at how these frugal, accessible pleasures define her daily existence and get elated with the fact that reading takes up a significant space on the shelf

Renowned singer and youngest daughter-in-law of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, Kalyani Kazi is no more. The artiste, who was the wife of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s youngest son Kazi Aniruddha, breathed her last this morning in Kolkata, at 87.

How can you talk about peace without taking into account war? Both are subjects not only of Tolstoy’s great novel but also of the two founding epic poems of Greek as well as Indian literature.

The event featured Sumon Chowdhury and Professor Dr Asit Roy, who presented performances and held discussions on related events.

On a Thursday, I went back home, and I took a walk./ On the sidewalk, I saw a splash of maroon on a grey block.

The difficulty of translation is one of the reasons why Nazrul is not discussed as extensively as Tagore in the west.

The High Court today (July 20, 2022) issued a rule asking the authorities concerned of the government to explain why they should not be directed to issue a gazette notification, officially declaring Kazi Nazrul Islam as “National Poet of Bangladesh”.

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) has been customarily characterized as a rebel poet, particularly, if not exclusively, because of his 1922 poem called “Bidrohi” (the Rebel)—a poem that fiercely stages his political, linguistic, even metrical rebellion all at once.

It has been 50 years today since an independent Bangladesh got its national poet.

Nazrul’s iconic poem uses both Islamic lore as well as Hindu myths to rebel against all that dehumanises and discriminates against human beings.

From Churulia, Bardhaman to Dhanmondi, Dhaka. And so many places in between - College Street, Taltola Lane, CIT Road. And of course Kolkata, dear city. During his lifetime, the bohemian poet Kazi Nazrul Islam wandered and dwelled in many places. On his birthday, we look at those towns, cities, and localities bearing his memories.

The adoption of the ghazal by Nazrul, with renewed fervour in the late ’20s and ’30s, signaled an understanding that his earlier literary and linguistic world was an impermanent one, as was a politics in which the unity of Hindus and Muslims was achieved through an appeal to a shared culture and language.

Today is the 45th death anniversary of the younger of the two icons.

While learning how to subtract and multiply, a boy surprised his uncle, Kazi Abul Hossain, by discovering the rules of division in advance. Later, this young boy gained fame as the first statistician, scientist, educator, chess player and prominent literary figure of

The 43rd death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam has been observed in a befitting manner.

I am a poet of the present, and not a prophet of the future. […] My birth in this country and this society does not mean that I shall remain constricted and confined to them. No, I belong to all countries and to the entirety of humanity. —Kazi Nazrul Islam