Nazrul and Different Magazines

After coming to Calcutta Nazrul had talks with Afjal- Ul-Haq Saheb to supply writings in " Moslem Bharat". At that time the first copy of Moslem Bharat was going to press for publication. Nazrul expressed his desire to publish a "Patra-upanyas" ( a novel in letter). The name of the Patra-upanyas was "Bandhan Hara". The novel was started publishing from the first issue of Moslem Bharat [ Baishakh 1327, (1920)] and ended in 8th issue..


Nazrul's creative personality was visible since his boy hood when he was in Leto group and when he was in teens and a student of High school his creativity was remarkably mention able. After going to Army he devoted himself full fledged in writing stories, poems, novels, songs etc and send them to different magazines from Karachi and other places. At that time his writings was published in Saugat, Bangiya Musalman sahitya Patrika, Pravasi, Nur etc.
Nazrul was also deeply attached with Moslem Bharat . Moslem Bharat published Nazrul's "Biraha bidhura", Hafizer Gazal, Bangiya Muslim Sahitya Patrika published  short story Sanjher Tara, Narayan Patrika published the song "Pathik ogo chalte pathe' with notation of Mohini Sengupta. In Falgun issue of Moslem Bharat two songs of Nazrul was published; 1. Marami, 2. sneha Bhitu. The first song was Ore e kon Sneha suradhani,  In Chaitra Sankhya  the second song was published "amar Gharer Pash Diye".
In the first year Nazrul had written Poetries, Short Stories, Songs, Some famous poems of Nazrul when he was 22 years old, are Bodhan, Shat il Arab, badal prater sharab, Agamoni, Kheya parr Tarani, korbani, Moharam, Abelay, Fateh -e- doyaj-daham. These were published within seven months only. These were published before publication of "Bidrohi, and Kamal Pasa and made Nazrul popular.
Nazrul could never forget the opportunity rendered by Bangiya Muslim Sahitya Samity at the beginning of his carrer in literature. He showed his gratitude in his presidential address in the Silver Jubilee celebration of Bangiya Muslim Sahitya Samity in 1941. He said;
" If the Sahitya Samity had not given me the shelter, I would have floated like a straw."