Kazi sabyasachi biography for kids

Kazi Nazrul Islam: A Chronology of Life

by Sajed Kamal

1899 May 24, Kazi Nazrul Islam born at the village of Churulia in the district of Burdwan, West Bengal, India.

Mother, Zaheda Khatun; father, Kazi Fakir Ahmad, the Imam (the head of a mosque) and the custodian of the Haji Pahlwan's mazar (a Muslim shrine) in his village; brothers, Kazi Shahebjan and Kazi Ali Husain, and sister, Umme Kulsum (three surviving out of the total of seven sons and two daughters of Fakir Ahmad).

1908 March 20, Nazrul's father dies at the age of 60.

1909 Passes the Muslim lower primary education examination in a maktab ( a Muslim primary school).

1910 Discontinues formal schooling due to financial hardship.

Earns his livelihood as a teacher at a maktab, muazzin (a caller for prayer at a mosque), and a custodian of the village shrine, etc.

1911 Joins a 'leto' group (folk musical troupe) with the encouragement and help from his uncle, Kazi Bazle Karim, a singer-song-writer- composer, himself a 'God