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Native name | কাজী সব্যসাচী |
Died | c. 1979 |
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Occupation | elocutionist |
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Kazi Sabyasachi (died in c. 1979) was a Bangladeshi elocutionist. He was the eldest son of Bangladesh National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
Sabyasachi came to fame in the 1960s and '70s as a reciter. In 1966, he became the first to record the recitation of Bidrohi, a poem by Kazi Nazrul Islam.
In 2012, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs of the Government of Bangladesh initiated Kazi Sabyasachi Memorial Award for two elocutionists - one from Bangladesh and one from India. The 2012 award went to Kazi Abu Zafar Siddiqui.