Nazrul Academy is an academic research institution devoted to the study of the national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam, and his works including Nazrul Geeti. The academy is located in

Moghbazar Maghbazar or Mogbazar ( bn, মগবাজার) is the name of a neighborhood in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is located near the neighborhoods of Tejgaon, Ramna and Malibagh. It is under Ramna thana and administered by the Dhaka South City Corporati ...

, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

History

Nazrul Academy was established by the poet

Talim Hossain Talim Hossain (29 October 1918 – 21 February 1999) was a Bangladeshi poet. He was the founder of Nazrul Academy in Dhaka. He was the editor of the literary magazine '' Mahe Nao'' in the 1960s. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1982 by the Govern ...

on 24 May 1968 in Dhaka in the then East Pakistan. Justice

Abu Sayeed Chowdhury Abu Sayeed Chowdhury (31 January 1921 – 2 August 1987) was a jurist and the President of Bangladesh. Besides that, he held the positions of the Chairmen of the United Nations Commission on Human rights, the vice-chancellor of the University ...

, the future president of Bangladesh, was the first chairman of the academy.

Functions and activities

''Nazrul Academy Award''

Sohrab Hossain Sohrab Hossain (9 April 1922 – 27 December 2012) was a Bangladeshi singer and an exponent of Nazrul Sangeet. From his childhood, he was interested in music and started learning music. He met singer Abbas Uddin in a function in Ranaghat. Then he ...

(1982) * Abdul Alim (1996) * Begum Uma Kazi and

Nilufar Yasmin Nilufar Yasmin (13 February 1948 – 10 March 2003) was a Bangladeshi singer of Nazrul Sangeet, Rajanikanta Geeti, Dwijendra Geeti and Atul Prasdi genre. She was the fourth of five Yasmin sisters of Bangladesh music. Her siblings are Farida ...

(2003) * Shahabuddin Ahmed and Mintu Rahman (2005) * Rafiqul Islam and Abdul Mannan Syed (2006) *

Khalid Hossain Khalid Hossain (4 December 1935 – 22 May 2019) was a Bangladeshi Nazrul Geeti singer. In recognition of his contribution in music, the government of Bangladesh awarded him the country's second highest civilian award Ekushey Padak in 2000. Earl ...

and Asadul Haq (2007) * A H Saidur Rahman and

Askar Ibne Shaikh M Obaidullah (known by his pen-name Askar Ibne Shaikh; March 30, 1925 – May 18, 2009) was a Bangladeshi writer and theater activist. Career Shaikh served as a faculty member of the University of Dhaka at the Department of Statistics. Works * ...

(2008) * Mohammad Abdul Qayyum and

Rawshan Ara Mustafiz Rawshan Ara Mustafiz is a Bangladeshi singer of Nazrul Sangeet genre. She was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2006 by the Government of Bangladesh. Early life and career Mustafiz learned music from her mother Rashida Khatun Chowdhury and started to perf ...

(2009) * Mustafa Zaman Abbasi (2012) * M.A. Mannan (2014) * Syed Abdul Hadi (2016) *Begum Jamila Alim (2019)

Notable alumni

* Dilshad Nahar Kona * Rafiqul Islam

References

Research institutes in Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam 1968 establishments in East Pakistan Organisations based in Dhaka {{Bangladesh-org-stub