In 1974, three years after Bangladesh's independence, a famine occurred due to rampant corruption that resulted in food shortages in the country at that time.
[1] At that time, Aftab Ahmed, a journalist of The Daily Ittefaq,[2] took photo of one person wearing a net and published it in the newspaper on 11 September.
Consequently, Azad's brother-in-law, Anwar Ul Alam, Deputy Director of the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini, took him to the prime minister.
[7] Even though the then prime minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman did not tell him anything, Rafiq Azad had to submit the reason for writing the poem to the Deputy inspector general of police in written form as an accountability at the Special Branch office.
[1] Columnist Aktar Hosen thinks that the poet blamed Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for the famine in the poem and called him "Haramzada".
[13] According to writer Zakir Talukdar, despite being a blind devotee of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, regular irregularities by the government during the famine forced Azad to write the poem.
[16] According to Farid Ahmad Dulal, although Azad was originally a fantasy-driven poet, he became popular by writing this poem which is rebellious in nature.
[20] In 2023, Rumeen Farhana, politician of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, wrote that no one has the courage to write such a poem present day.