Opinion: Kazi Nazrul Islam, his Political Ideology, Activism and Literature
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The Indian Freedom Struggle was a time of glorious achievements. It produced luminaries in the field of peace like Mahatma Gandhi and the war like Subhash Chandra Bose. It gave us important spiritual figures like Swami Vivekananda and literature was graced by the presence of bards like Rabindranath Tagore, Muhammad Iqbal, and Jibanananda Das. But very few can lay claim of being a pioneer in each of these fields like Kazi Nazrul Islam was. He was a beacon of peace, secularism, and universalism against communalism, yet he was a person of revolutionary ideas who fought in the First World War. Kazi Nazrul Islam was a spiritual awakener of the masses through his contribution to Islamic and Hindu...