Pakistani (1947–1971) Alochhaya Jodi Emon Hoto Lest We Forget Nurul Momen (25 November 1908 – 16 February 1990) was a Bangladeshi playwright, educator, director, broadcast personality, orator, humorist, dramatist, academician, satirist, belletrist, essayist, columnist, translator and poet.
At the age of ten he wrote his first poem, Shondhya (Evening), in the same verse as Tagore's Shonar Tory.
After the foundation of All India Radio in Dhaka, 1939, Momen picked up on the opportunity of the new medium and became its first Muslim author.
With its progressive plot and a female main character it differed vastly form traditional Muslim plays and was actually the first modern drama of Bangladesh.
Nurul Momen encouraged Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to read the works of George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell.
On 21 February 1952; Nurul Momen & his student Mohammad Toaha was in the DU playground, when the shooting took place & martyrs were fired upon.
In 1961 he, along with his friend Justice Syed Mahbub Morshed, celebrated the birth centenary of Rabindranath Tagore.
Natyaguru Nurul Momen sometimes contributed two articles for the same newspaper at the same time using the penname "Magus".
His editorial "Lest We Forget" as Nurul Momen, spanning 5 years for The Bangladesh Times while he wrote for the literary magazine the series, "Forbidden Pleasure" under the pseudonym "Magus".
[1] His 102nd birthday was celebrated in November 2010 with a week-long festival, organized again by the BSA together with the Aurony Mohona International Foundation (AMIF).