Friday, July 19, 2013

Nazrul and his first son

At the initiative of Bhupati Majumdar Nazrul came to Hooghly with his wife but he could not procure a rented house for them. At last he managed to stay in Kathghara in the house of Khagen Ghosh, the elder brother of the revolutionary and patriotic Biren Ghosh. He had to face several difficultes there. He was then shifted to the house of the Moktar, Hamidul Nabi. At this place his first son , Krishna Muhammad or Azad Kamal was born.
Many litterateurs and artists used to come to this residence of Nazrul. Revolutionary and patriot like Gopinath Saha also used to come to get inspiration from Nazrul. At the "Akika" ceremony of his first son, held on 21 days of the birth of the child,  all the writers of Kallol and and his friends who were not invited at the marriage ceremony, came to his residence to celebrate the occasion. The persons among them were, Dinesh Ranjan Das, Achintya Kumar Sengupta, Premendra Mitra, Nripendra Krishna Chattopadhyay, Pabitra Gangopadhyay, Nalini Kanta Sarker, Gokul Chandra Nag, Bhupati Majumdar, Muralidhar Basu, Dr. Lutfar rahman, Mainuddin Hosen, Khan Muhammad Mahinuddin, Md. Oyajed Ali. Nazrul accorded welcome to all of them on the Hooghly Strarion Platform and shouted " De gorur ga Dhuiye". this was his typical sayings of welcome address .
There were heavy arrangements of dinner with polau, Goshta, Dadhi, Chatni etc. But most of them was so joyful so that there were more wastage than the consumption of food by the guests. But as ill luck would have it, the child had an untimely death within few days.
 Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das expired on 16th June 1925 at Darjeeling when Nazrul was at Hooghly. He wrote a poem "Argha" as a mark of respect to the sad demise of Deshabandhu.. This nice song was published in his book "Chittanama" which Nazrul dedicated in the name of Basanti Devi  on the occasion of condolence meeting of Chittaranjan Das at Chinsura.  He also wrote a poem "Indrapatan" which was read there in the meeting.
Due to some uses of words unacceptable by the Muslim community he had to change those words .
During his stay in Hooghly he had to face extreme economic stringency. He had an attack of Small-pox there. One day a severe storm took place when he wrote in his ailing stage the poem "Jhar"..

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