He urged the unity of Hindus and Muslims. He also contributed to the founding of the pro-Communist Workers and Peasants Party. He came back to Calcutta in 1920 and plunged himself to the radical literary movement.
Having lost his father, he had joined the British Indian army in 1917. Nazrul was born in 1899, the same year Swami Vivekananda established the Belur Math on the western banks of Ganga. In most of these melodious, soul-stirring hymns, one finds the marvellous poems of Kazi Nazrul Islam along with that of Ram Prasad Sen, an eighteenth-century devotee of Mother Kali.
Today, with the proliferation of digital media, Shyamala-Sangeet or the Bengali devotional music for the Mother Goddess is more accessible for even those who are outside the immediate sphere of Bengali tradition. Today is the birth anniversary of one of the greatest of the modern poets of the Shaktic tradition – Kazi Nazrul Islam.
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