Today Google Doodle celebrates Bengali artist, performer, author, and extremist Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 121st birthday. A noticeable voice of the Indian autonomy development, Nazrul was a furious supporter for strict resistance, opportunity, and the battle against bad form, winning him the nickname “Bidrohi Kobi” (“Rebel Poet”).
Kazi Nazrul Islam was conceived on this day in 1899 in what is today the Bardhaman area of the Indian territory of West Bengal, and as an adolescent, he built up an enthusiasm for verse and writing through his contribution with his uncle’s voyaging theater gathering. Following quite a while in the British Indian Army during World War I, Nazrul moved to Kolkata and in 1922 distributed his now-acclaimed progressive poem “Bidrohi” (“The Rebel”), which was set apart by a heartfelt position against imperialism and worldwide abuse and enlivened the present Doodle craftsmanship.
Nazrul’s rebellious composition—quite a bit of which he distributed in his own magazine, Dhumketu (The Comet)— brought about regular detainment, which thusly enlivened one of his most notable works, “Rajbondir Jobanbondi” (”The Deposition of a Political Prisoner,” 1923). He utilized his foundation to battle bias in the entirety of its structures, and through his verse upheld the equity of ladies when not many of his friends were eager to do likewise. Not to be restricted to the composed word, Nazrul likewise kept in touch with somewhere in the range of 4,000 melodies, which brought him national notoriety and generated a completely new classification called Nazrul Geeti (Music of Nazrul).
For his mind boggling scholarly commitments, Nazrul was named the national writer of Bangladesh in 1972.
