Nazrul in school (contd-1)

Probably, in 1911, Nazrul got admitted in Class VI in Nabin Chandra Institute in the village Mathrun by the side of the bank  Ajoy River within Mangalkot Thana of Burdwan district. The then Headmaster of the school was the renowned poet Kumudranjan Mullick (Kumud Ranjan Mullick (1883-1970) was a Bengali writer and poet. He was one of the most eminent poets of the Tagore era of Bengali literature. He was an early mentor and coach to the famous poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.) .  ( This picture of Kumud Ranjan Mallick is kept in Bangiya Sahitya parishd and drawn by an artist , probably, the name is Bhutnath mukherjee) He wrote about Nazrul,
" I became a teacher at the age of 23 in this Mathrun English High School. Nazrul was reading in Class VI at that time. The boy was lively and handsome. Whenever I entered in his class to inspect, he bowed down his head before me. I petted him smiling. He was timid but looked upon his headmaster respectfully. At his early age he attracted my attention.His classmates also loved him. But he did not continue his study in this school
. It appeared that he left the  school within a year."
The cause of his discontinuation of studies was on financial ground. He was again searching for job. He joined in the team of Music party of Basudev. Here he supplied them with lyrics and sometimes he had to sing songs by biting drums. On hearing his song in the rehearsal of Basudev, a Christian Railway Guard of Andal Branch liked him and put him in a service . His duty was to bring lunch for the guard from Prasadpur and to fetch him from railway station to Prasadpur on foot of a distance of one and half mile through rough unpolished path. Moreover, he had to bring foreign liquor by purchasing from Asansol and to sing before him. Anyway, instead of him, his wife Hirannaprava listened his songs frequently.Later on, the younger brother of the lady, Sailendra Kumar Ghosh became his classmate in Siarsole School.
It was known from the book "Keu bhole, keu bhole na " written by Nazrul's intimate friend  Sailajaranjan Mukhopadhyay that he was dismissed from the service for no fault of his own with an advance payment of two month's salary @ Rs.25/-. Narzul left prasadpur not to came back again.
He then took up a job in a "tea and bread" shop in Asansol in that year, i.e. 1911. At that time Nazrul's salary was Re 1/-with food but no shelter. Nazrul passed his night under the staircase of the adjacent twostoried building.The building belonged to the Police inspector Kazi Rafizullah. He became moved, one day,  on hearing the play of instrumental music of Nazrul.   He came to learn the distress story of Nazrul and  employed him for his domestic work. Kazi Rafizullah and his wife Samsunnesa had no children till then. they loved Nazrul and on sympathy they send him to their elder brother Sakhayatullah in his home land for continuing his study.
He was admitted in Class VII in Darirampur School in 1914 near the home-village  of Rafizullah Saheb after about two years of leaving the Mathrun School .At that time Nazrul stayed in the village Kazi-rasimla from where he had to go five miles everyday to attain his school. Nazrul got freestudentship in Darirampur School His teacher Mahimchandra Khasnabis said that Nazrul was found inattentive in his class but when a question was asked he could answer correctly. Once in the school, a Variety Performance was  held and Nazrul recited two poems of Rabindranath Tagore, 1. Dui Bigha jami, 2. Puratan Bhritya. and charmed everybody.Nazrul was a good student he always secured   1st or 2nd position in his class. After being promoted to class VIII, he went to his village. Nazrul read in Darirampur school for one year and that was his first introduction with East Bengal which deepened in due course. Nazrul, in his life time with good physical and mental condition, did not go in Trisal or Dariramur but it is found in his book "Agnigiri".     .