Write a letter to your friend about your favourite poet or author.
5th Janurary, 2022
15, Chanmari Road
Lalkhan Bazar, Chittagong.
My dear Habib,
I have received your letter in which you showed your keen interest to know about my favourite poet. There are many poets in our country. Of them Kazi Nazrul Islam a poet,
philosopher and patriot whom I like most. He is our national poet. He was a poet of unique vision, a seer who could look beyond the limitations of time and place.
Nazrul, the rebel poet of Bengal, was born on the 11th Jaistha, 1342 B.S in Churulia, a village of Bardwan in West Bengal. Nazrul’s nickname was “Dukhu Miah”. Nazrul felt the pangs of slavery in his heart and turned a rebel poet. In a weekly magazine named ‘Bijli’, his famous work ‘Bidrohi’ was first published in 1328 B.S. When he was 22 years old, he began editing a bi¬weekly called ‘Dhumketu’. His most well-known works are ‘Agni-Bina’, ‘Bisher-Banshi’, ‘Praloyshika’, ‘Dolonchapa,’ ‘Sarbahara’, ‘Sammyabadi’, ‘Chakrabak’, Chandrabindu’, ‘Natun Chand’, ‘Shesh Shaogat’, ‘Bandhan Hara’, ‘Rikter Bedan’ etc. He also wrote some novels of which ‘Mrityukshudha’ and ‘Bayther Dan’ are widely known. He wrote many lyrical poems, religious songs, gazals, love-lyrics, stories, plays and comic-poems for the children. I like Nazrul more than any other man, because he stood against all sorts of oppression. He was a great revolutionary. He taught us to strike, strive and not to yield or surrender. He showed us the part to fight against the enemy of our freedom. Nazrul’s sympathies were always with the downtrodden and the humiliated. He wrote with the blade of a steel sword, as it were, defying all bans and banters. He had indeed a great heart. All his qualities make me love him both as a great poet and a person as well. This is all in brief about my favourite poet.
Let me know about your favourite poet. With love and best wishes.
Yours ever,
Tahseen
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