Nazrul in school (contd-2)

Nazrul  had studied in Darirampur School only for one year i.e. 1914.  After returning  his homeland Nazrul tried to get himself admitted in Raniganj Searsole Raj High School in  Raniganj Municipality through one of his friend But when he failed he wrote him a letter.

The  letter written by Nazrul expressing his willingness to get admission   was sent to the Headmaster of the school by the friend to whom it was written. The headmaster became charmed to notice the language and  excellency of the letter and admitted him in Searsole Raj School . He also awarded him free studentship and a stipend of merit.

Nazrul was admitted in Mathrun School in 1911 in Class VI, in Darirampur School in 1914 in Class VII, and in Searsole Raj High School, Raniganj Municipality,  in 1915 in Class VIII. He read there for three  years, 1915 to 1917 till he went to the Army. Nazrul wrote about this school in his first published book,
" Baunduler Atmakahini"
Nazrul stayed in a "Muslim Boarding House' while studying in Searsole Raj High School. The boarding house was  in a house made up of mud. Nazrul was living there along with four Mohammedan students. Nazrul was exempted to pay school fees or boarding charges which was borne by Rajbari. He was also given a stipend of Rs. 7/- pm as his pocket expenses. Nazrul's credential, as a student, was explained by his most intimate friend Sailajananda Mukhopadhyay in his book "keu bhole, keu bhole na". He wrote,
" Nazrul was  a student capable of securing scholarship. He stood first each year in his class. Once he got double promotion."
While studying in Searsole Raj School Nazrul was influenced by one of his teacher, Nibaran Chandra Ghatak in revolutionary activities of Jugantar Dal. Nazrul, in later life, wrote in his book, "Kuhelika " where he painted a teacher Pramatta with revolutionary zeal. Moreover, he got his first chance of expressing himself in the verse form in Searsole Raj School. He was always entrusted with the job of writing  farewell address of all teachers who left the school.

Nazrul tried to put his name in disguise in the poem written as a farewell address. he wrote a poem "Karun Gnatha" in the farewell of the teacher Bholanath Swarnakar, B.A.,(pic-1)
He wrote another poem in the address of Harishankar Misra,B.A.,(pic-2)

Nazrul had three friends in Searsole School, namely, 1. Saijananda Mukhopadhyay, 2. sailendra Kumar Ghosh (referred earlier), and 3. Abdul Jabbar.
Nazrul  called Sailajananda by the name "Saila". But he was not a student of Searsole School. He was a student of Raniganj School. They were very intimate friend. They used to meet every day, had exchange of thoughts by telling stories, sometimes they passed time by walking in Grand Trunk Road or on the rail line of E.I.R., sometimes in Sishy Saal forest. Some times they used took spicy

flattened rice, from the hawker in the boarding house, sometimes they learnt how to swim, sometimes they went to Christian Saheb's banglo for learning English etc. At that time Nazrul was writing Stories and Saila was writing poems. Later, Nazrul took up to write poems when opportunity was available.
Saijananda described about Nazrul's  writing of poems in his book, " Amar Bandhu Nazrul" which was published in, ( Haraf Prakashani, Kolkata 1375).(pic-3).