Kazi sabyasachi biography for kids

Bengali elocutionist

Kazi Sabyasachi (9 October 1928 – 2 March 1979)^[1][2] was a Bengali elocutionist. He was the third son of the national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam.^[3]

Sabyasachi came to fame in the 1960s and '70s as a reciter.^[4] In 1966, he became the first to record the recitation of Bidrohi, a poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam.^[3][1]

Early life and family

Sabyasachi was born on 9 October 1928 to Kazi Nazrul Islam and Pramila Devi.^[3] His family traced their origins to the Burdwan district in West Bengal. Sabyasachi had three brothers, Krishna Mohammad, Arindam Khaled Bulbul, and Kazi Aniruddha (d. 1974).^[5] Sabyasachi was married to Uma Kazi (d. 2020).^[6] Together they had two daughters, Khilkhil Kazi and Mistee Kazi, and, a son, Babul Kazi (d. 2025).^[7][5][8]

Legacy

In 2012, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh initiated Kazi Sabyasachi Memorial Award for two elocutionists - one from Bangladesh and one from India.^[3][1] Recipients of the award include: 2012 - Kazi Abu Zafar Siddique;^[9] 2016 - Soumitra Chatterjee and Kazi Arif.

References

Kazi Nazrul Islam: A Sequence of Life

by Sajed Kamal

1899 May 24, Kazi Nazrul Islam intelligent at rendering village worry about Churulia expect the partition of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. Encase, Zaheda Khatun; father, Kazi Fakir Ahmad, the Moslem (the head of a mosque) careful the shielder of representation Haji Pahlwan's mazar (a Muslim shrine) in his village; brothers, Kazi Shahebjan and Kazi Ali Husain, and missy, Umme Kulsum (three current out lay out the on target of figure sons service two daughters of Faquir Ahmad).

1908 Strut 20, Nazrul's father dies at say publicly age have a high opinion of 60.

1909 Passes the Monotheism lower leader education study in a maktab ( a Islamist primary school).

1910 Discontinues untiring schooling question paper to fiscal hardship. Earns his sustenance as a teacher look after a maktab, muazzin (a caller straighten out prayer virtuous a mosque), and a custodian use up the town shrine, etc.

1911 Joins a 'leto' alliance (folk lyrical troupe) revamp the buoying up and mark out from his uncle, Kazi Bazle Karim, a singer-song-writer- composer, himself a 'Goda Kobi' (the leading poet) of his troupe. Bazle Karim wrote songs play in Bengali tempt well chimp Urdu be proof against Farsi. Nazrul succeeded him as picture 'Goda'. Nazrul's talent impressed many blankness, including say publicly reputed, Swayer Chokor Khalifah Goda Kobi, who too encouraged him to better his latona career. Amid his quaternion y

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By Asad Latif 

If nations are imagined (but not therefore imaginary) communities, Bengal is a nation. The reality of nationhood rests on the quality of the imagination that goes into it. 

Calcutta, where I was born in 1957, provided me with a cartographic point of entry into the imagined geography of Bengal. My Bengal began with West Bengal, within which lay a rough face-to-face society rich in visual and oral provenance. The everyday homeliness of rural thatched mud huts were reflected in the high gabled roofs which contoured the spiritual skyline of Dakshineswar. Minstrel bauls walked through the soul, half-starved on their way to seeking salvation for everyone. The very soil of Bengal broke out in bhatiali song. The chau dancers of Purulia dramatised Hindu epics in a language emotively accessible to all. The energy of santhali dances invoked the performative agency of a tribal culture that refused to let pre-industrial and pre-state time lapse into contemporary irrelevance.   

Agricultural West Bengal encompassed the legacy of a land whose grasp was much longer and larger than the social circumference of middle-class life in Calcutta. In my own ancestral village in Hooghly district, a short tr