I also agree with Professor Momtazuddin Ahmed, as cited by Professor Subimal Chakrabarty below.
Let me add that Nazrul was not only a great Bangalee, we was a great Indian as well. He wrote "Nomo Nomo Nomo, Bangla Desh Momo" (salute, salute, salute, my country, Bangla) as well as "Udar Bharat Sakal Manobe Diachho Tomar Kole Sthhaan"; Parshi Joino Bouddha Hindu Khristan Shikh Musolman" (generous, India, you have given in your lap place to all humans; Persians, Jains, Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Muslims).
Of course, when he wrote, "Nomo Nomo Nomo, Bangla Desh Momo", he certainly did not mean today's Bangladesh. Nor did he envision a separate political identity (state) for Bangla, which at Nazrul's time included both East Bengal (most of today's Bangladesh) and West Bengal (an Indian province today). His Bangla Desh was cultural and geographical, not political.
The title of 'National Poet of Bangladesh', even if it were given with no ulterior motive, is actually not an honor that Nazrul ever needed. He was greater than that.
Well, that is all for now. I will try to write a more comprehensive article on the subject later.
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Prof. Mamtazuddin Ahmed believes that in a true sense he was even a "better" Bangali than Rabindranath. I tend to agree with him.
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We have been talking about Nazrul in this forum. You may want to know how I see this great soul.
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Actually, the great humanist poet, Kazi Nazrul Islam, has been seriously abused in Bangladesh. A large segment of the Bangladeshi intelligentsia has tried to make him their Muslim poet.
The so-called secular and communist politicians of West Bengal were also too callous about this great soul. They allowed their truly humanist poet to be used, due to his disabled brain, by the Islamists of Bangladesh, led by the military dictator, Ziaur Rahman.
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............ We have seen enough of Rabidra-Nazrul politics from Pakistani/ BNP and Jamat sides. Could not Monem bring Nazrul to Bangladesh to show his brotherly love for this great poet? I hate to see these kind of crocodile tears from the Islamist who suddenly need to find their own Muslim poet. If Nazrul were alive, he would hated these imbeciles from his guts. -SD
"I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues."
-Seuss
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Out of those amazing poems some will be blasphemous in nature. I don't think Islamic clerics will like them. He wrote many more "Hindu" songs than Islamic songs. Orthodox Muslim society has its own justification to boycott or denounce him.
Have we not shown due respect to Nazrul? What else could be done? Any suggestions.
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