![]() ![]() Nazrul suffered a sudden cerebral attack and completely lost his power to speak and write in the year 1942. Eliot needs no introduction, popularly put, he is a world literary megastar, but for readers beyond the Indian sub-continent, Nazrul is not that well known, even though he is the national poet of Bangladesh and enjoys the unique position of being equally popular both in Bangladesh and the Indian side of Bengal as he spent his entire literary career in undivided India and post-1947, continued to live in Calcutta. Two seminal texts of early twentieth century literature, namely, The Waste Land written by British poet T S Eliot and Bidrohi (The Rebel) by Kazi Nazrul Islam, both published in 1922, both recognized as landmark poetic marvels because of their radically transformative “modern” content, texture and style, something that took their respective literary cultures by storm, are marking their centenaries in 2021.
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