![]() ![]() But Nazrul is more than a didactic poet of principles. His own line-“Of equality I sing”-constitutes a leitmotif in a number of his poems. These principles, I argue, deeply inform Nazrul’s entire work. Indeed, to re-read Nazrul today is to re-assert the three distinctly pronounced principles of our own unfinished National Liberation Movement of 1971- equality, justice, and dignity. For our national ruling classes and their allies have long come to stand in for almost everything-every system of oppression-Nazrul himself continued to confront, challenge, and combat: capitalism, colonialism, communalism, racism, and patriarchy. One such irony is that Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) is our “national” poet. History bristles with paradoxes and ironies. Republished from DT archive: Tribute to Nazrul ![]()
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