Wikipedia:Peer review/Kazi Nazrul Islam/archive1

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

Please see automated peer review suggestions here. Thanks, AZ _t 00:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

'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)[reply]

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)[reply]