Museum and gallery, Mymensingh

Nazrul Smriti Kendra, Kazir Shimlaনজরুল স্মৃতিকেন্দ্র, কাজীর শিমলা

Time needed: About 30 minutes.
best months: Nov–Feb

The Darogabari, home of the police officer who brought the boy Nazrul to Trishal in 1914, now a memorial centre.

At a glance

Nazrul here: From 1914, as a schoolboy
Set up by: Ministry of Cultural Affairs

About

In 1914 Kazi Rafizullah, a daroga (police sub-inspector) from the village of Kazir Shimla, brought the young Kazi Nazrul Islam to Trishal and enrolled him in class seven at the Darirampur school. Nazrul spent part of his boyhood here and was already writing poems; he would later become the national poet of Bangladesh.

Rafizullah's house, still called the Darogabari, is now one of two Nazrul Smriti Kendras set up in Trishal by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs; the other is at the Bichutia Bepari house in Namapara, by the banyan where the university now stands. It is a small, quiet place in a village in Boilor union, best combined with the school where he studied.

Getting there: In Kazir Shimla village, Boilor union, Trishal upazila, north of Trishal town.

Things to do

See the house where Nazrul lived with the daroga's family.

Good to know

Come on 11 Jaishtha (late May) for the birth anniversary celebrations in Trishal.

Getting there

Read the Mymensingh guide

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The school of 1913 where Nazrul studied, with the two rooms he used kept as they were.

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