Bengal has two poets whose vintage is considered above all others: Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam. Now, with full awareness of the absurdity involved, one may have to add a third name to the footnotes: MD Ahnaf Hossain.
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Hossain, a Bangladeshi-origin New Yorker, became a social media sensation after his chant: “My mayor’s Muslim, my bagel’s Jewish, my Christian Dior, Knicks in four.” Now that’s no Gitanjali or Bidrohi, but it certainly united New Yorkers and, by extension, all members of the global order who feel they already live in New York because they have memorised every Friends and How I Met Your Mother episode.
