Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.
He was born on 18th
April, 1809 in Kolkata, West Bengal. He was a lecturer and poet. He is
considered to be an academic and educator. During his time Literary Movement of
Bengal Renaissance was undergoing. He was an Indian poet and assistant head
principal at the Hindu College of Kolkata. He was a radical thinker and one of
the first Indian educators to disseminate western Education and science among
the young men of Bengal. He died of Cholera at the age of 22.
It is a
tragic love story of a Nuleeni- a young widow and Muslim Fakeer.
The poem
begins with the description of nature and then moves into the serious issues
going in the society like “Sati-Pratha”.
Nuleeni was brought to the spot where her
husband is to be cremated. Women were singing songs praising sati, but Nuleeni
was lost in the thoughts of Fakeer. She refuses to die on the funeral pyre of
her husband and escapes with the bandit faker to his cave in Jungheera to a
life from death. She escaped death but she starts a life of forbidden love
though frightened by vicious social norms.
At last both
of them are killed by the society.
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