Wikipedia:Peer review/Kazi Nazrul Islam/archive1

Kazi Nazrul Islam
Hi - please help me make this an FA. This Fire Burns.....Always  18:31, 9 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, AZ t 00:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

This involves the lead and early life. will come back later with more.
 * first line uses Bengali twice, somewhat redundantly.
 * "..eligion, music and literature. Working as a journalist," -- A link is mising here. He returned to Bengal, and started working as a journalist
 * Following the death of his mentor Rabindranath Tagore in 1941, Nazrul began losing his voice and memory. --No correlation whatsoever.
 * "Whilst stationed in Karachi, Nazrul learnt Persian and the art of writing, and was exposed to Hindu religion, music and literature." -- this contradicts what is being said in "Early life", that he was exposed to hindusim when wandering around in Bengal.
 * "kaviyals" -- needs to be wikilinked or explained
 * early life -- if I remember correctly, there was an Asansol period, where he worked at a bakery for a while in the named town. This is not merely trivia information, his working class affinities can be traced back to it.

--ppm 17:47, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * More comments:
 * 'known as the "Cultural capital of India" ' -- was it? I think its more appropriate to describe it as the cultural center of Bengal.
 * I believe Agnibeena was banned. This should be mentioned
 * The discussion on women is simply too long, and similiar stuff is repeated all over the article
 * "Nazrul's creativity diversfied as he explored Hindu devotional music by composing bhajans and kirtans, " -- he write more Shyama Sangit's than :#these forms
 * "Lord Byron of Bengali literature."--honestly haven't heard this one. ref a bit weak, too.

--ppm 15:08, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Unless I missed it, there is no mention of Nazrul running for election, and his communist leanings (friend of Mujaffar Ahmed, pioneering leader of CPI and Nazrul also was involved with "Langol"-- a leftist paper for a while). But this is just an example of the problems with dealing with Nazrul. Having read a number of biographies of the guy, I know that everyone potrays him in a different light (unlike, say Rabindranath), and so there is a risk of losing large chapters of his life if one depends on too few sources. To paraphrase Nalinikanta Sarkar, Nazrul's lifelong friend, Nazrul was like the mani-faceted Krishna, showing different people different aspects of his being--ppm 18:52, 15 July 2006 (UTC)