Nazrul established himself as a journalist in Calcutta after the war ended. He joined the British Indian Army in 1917 and was posted in Karachi.
He learned about poetry, drama, and literature while working with the rural theatrical group Letor Dal, Leto being a folk song genre of West Bengal usually performed by the people from Muslim community of the region. īorn into a Bengali Muslim Kazi family hailing from Burdwan district in Bengal Presidency (now in West Bengal), Nazrul Islam received religious education and as a young man worked as a muezzin at a local mosque. His compositions form the avant-garde music genre of Nazrul Geeti ( Music of Nazrul). Nazrul's activism for political and social justice earned him the title of "Bidrohi Kobi" ( Rebel Poet). Popularly known as Nazrul, he produced a large body of poetry and music with themes that included religious devotion and rebellion against oppression. Kazi Nazrul Islam ( Bengali: কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম, Bengali pronunciation: ( listen), – 29 August 1976) was a Indian/Bengali poet, writer, musician, and the national poet of Bangladesh.
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