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Bijli (Weekly Newspaper)
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Bijli is the name of a weekly Bengali newspaper first published in 1920. It was a film magazine started by Nalinikanta Sarkar, Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Sachchidananda Sengupta, Arun Singh and Dinesh Ranjan Das. Notable among its editors were Nalinikanta Sarkar, Prabodh Kumar Sanyal and others.[1][2]
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'The Rebel '(Bidrohi) the famous poem of the National poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam was first published in this magazine on Friday, 7 January 1922 (22 Poush 1326 BS) .[3][4][5] At that time the editor of the paper was Nalinikanta Sarkar.[6] Bijli had to be printed twice that day, numbering 29,000.[7][8] According to Muzaffar Ahmed, at least 200,000 people rebelled that day.[9]
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