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Celebrating Kazi Nazrul Islam, Rebel Poet of Bengal Kazi Nazrul Islam. Unknown author, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. In November of 1922, the young poet Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976) was arrested in Calcutta, India, accused of sedition by the British government. He had recently published the poem “Anandomoyee Agomone” (“The Coming of Anandamoyee”), invoking the Hindu goddess Durga, who is beloved and celebrated with particular verve across Bengal. In the poem, however, Nazrul ...