 बलो भीड, बलो उन्नात ममोशीड, शीरि नेहारि आमारि नातो शीरि शिखार ही माद्द्रीड, बलो भीड, बलो महा भिष्शेर, महा ताश्पारि, चन्र शूर्ज ग्रोटार चाडि, फूलोग, दूलोग, गोलोग, भेदिया, खोदा अशंणार श्चेदिया, बलो भीड, भीड, शीरि, बलो महाद्रीड, Nuzrul at the age of 10 was made the village Mulla and Muazin, caller for prayers at the mosque. Soon he was drawn into a group of travelling musicians, the Leto. He became conversant in Hindu mythology and the folk culture of Bengal, while composing dramas for Leto teams. Reading major Bengali newspapers, Nuzrul became aware of the world developments like the Bolshevik Revolution. Nuzrul now started writing in earnest. His first published piece was Bhāhuṁdhile Ṣaṭṭukahini or Autobiography of a Vagabond in 1919 in a literary journal of liberal Bengali Muslims. Nuzrul went on to publish several poems like Mukti or Freedom in the bongyo-musulman Shahitha Putrika. He introduced guzzles in Bengali for the first time. Nuzrul's writing career took off as a journalist. With Muzaffar Ahmed, he brought out the evening daily Nobujuq with the support of prominent Muslim politician Fazlul Haq. Nuzrul's language of protest was a unique blend of metaphors drawn from both Islam and Hinduism. In August 1922, Nuzrul began publishing his own bivikli paper with meager resources. He called it Thumketu or Comet. In November 1922, the British authorities banned Thumketu, arrested Nuzrul and sentenced him to a year's rigorous imprisonment. Prison could not silence Nuzrul's pen, stirring poems like Shikol Porachol composed in 1924 and Srishti Shukerul Lase composed in 1923, where impassioned cries of a free spirit. On his release from prison in December 1923, he hastened to Kumilla and proposed marriage to Pramila, whom he called his Bijoyini, the victorious one. An untiring advocate of gender equality, Nuzrul made an inspiring plea in his poem Nari. Nuzrul's musical career received a boost in 1928 when the British-owned gramophone company overcame its prejudice and saw the wisdom of making a handsome offer to Nuzrul to record his songs and become the music trainer. Nuzrul's Islamic music had a significant liberalizing impact on tradition-bound Muslim society. In 1931, Nuzrul entered the world of theatre and films and later joined Calcutta Radio as story and scriptwriter and music director. In the middle of a radio broadcast in 1942, Nuzrul suddenly felt the power of speech ebbing out of him, along with his mental faculties. Honours poured in. Calcutta University bestowed its prestigious Jaguttarini Gold Medal on Nuzrul in 1945. The Indian government honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 1960. On August 29, 1976, Nuzrul passed away. His wife and a son having already pre-diseased him. Nuzrul's voice may have been silenced forever. Yet his soul-rousing message of his poems and songs echoes in the hearts of millions of Indians.