Kazi Nazrul Islam
Rebel
Kazi Nazrul Islam PB EP IA, also known as the Rebel Poet, was a popular Bengali poet, writer, lyrist and the national poet of Bangladesh. Wikipedia
Born: May 24, 1899, Churulia, India
Died: August 29, 1976 (age 77 years), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Spouse: Pramila Devi (m. 1924–1962)
Children: Kazi Sabyasachi and Kazi Aniruddha
Grandchild: Khilkhil Kazi
Awards: Padma Bhushan (1960), Ekushey Padak (1976), and Independence Award (1977)
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The paper examines the many lives of Kazi Nazrul Islam during the tumultuous decades of anticolonial nationalism, separatism and Partition, and East Pakistan.