Thursday, July 11, 2013

Nazrul and Dhumketu (contd-4)

In 12th issue , 26 sept 1922, a poem "Anandamayeer agamane"was printed. Nazrul was arrested and convicted to imprisonment. The poem was in the form of metaphor.
This poem was written for Anandabazar, but lastly he printed it in Dhumketu. After the failure of Non-cooperation movement, Khilafat movement, and plan for armed revolution the country became frustrated. At the same time leaders like Gandhi, Arabinda, Chittaranjan, Surendramohan, Rabindranath, Barin Ghosh could not give any definite line to obtain freedom.  Nazrul wrote this poem criticizing all the leaders ironically.
The contemporary News papers "Hitabadi", weekly "Bijoli", "Satyabadi", "Basanti", and Ananda Bazar wrote;
Non-Muslim papers openly greeted Dhumketu but the Muslim paper like "Mohammadi' could not do the same open heartedly;
In the thirty first issue nazrul wrote in his editorial " Dhumketur Path"
In the next issue dated 17th 1922, Nazrul wrote in the  editorial "Kamal";
The first book of Nazrul which was band was Yugabani .
In the 21st issue of Dhumketu a suspicion was expressed about the band of Yugabani;
The police made a raid at the office of Dhumketu in the morning of 8th Nov 1922 and they seized 12th issue for"anandamayeer agaman" and 15th issue for Bidrohir Kaifiyat. Inspite of this raid the 22nd issue was published with the following information;

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