A two-day Rabindra festival celebrating the 152nd birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore ended at Barisal Aswani Kumar Hall on Thursday. The festival was organised by Barisal unit of Jatiyo Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad. The festival featured discussion on life and works of the Nobel laureate poet, recitation of Tagore’s poems, rendition of Tagore songs and ... Read more
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Tagore anniversary celebrated in Manikganj
Manikganj district unit of Jatiya Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad celebrated Tagore’s 152nd birth anniversary at Manikganj Government Women College on Wednesday evening. Professor Abul Islam Shikder, president of Manikganj district unit of Jatiya Rabindra Sangeet Sammilan Parishad, presided over the discussion session.
Chhayanaut’s Tagore festival begins
Beautiful lyrics blended with charming composition of evergreen Tagore song Parbi na ki jog dite ai chhondey rey rendered in chorus not only pleased the ears but also the eyes of the spectators as a synchronized, vibrant group dance was presented at a programme on Thursday evening. This was the introductory recital Chhayanaut’s two-day festival ... Read more
Swapno O Droher Jatiya Natyautsab begins
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy has been beautifully decorated to celebrate a special moment: the inauguration of the eight-day National Theatre Festival 2013 on Thursday. Almost everyone who passed by the area was drawn to the programme by its zeal and fervour, colour and sound. The festival is featuring 64 plays in total, one from each district ... Read more
Leading artistes perform
Leading artistes and troupes presented timeless songs, poems and dance of Rabindranath Tagore on Wednesday evening at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy. It was the second part of the day-long Tagore 152th birth anniversary celebrations programme organised by ministry of cultural affairs. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
Karunamaya Goswamy, Papiya Sarwar honoured
Bangla Academy honoured researcher professor Karunamoy Goswamy and eminent singer Papiya Sarwar with ‘Rabindra Award 2013’ in a programme celebrating the 152nd birth anniversary of the Nobel laureate poet on Wednesday. Professor Zillur Rahman Siddique and Bangla Academy director general Shamsuzzaman Khan handed over certificates,
BRSSS holds three-day celebration
Bangladesh Rabindra Sangeet Shilpi Sangstha’s three-day programme began with an average arrangement on Wednesday at the Shawkat Osman Auditorium of the Central Public Library due to nationwide general strike. The celebrations lacked its customary colour and fanfare compared to previous arrangements of the past 23 years
Shunte ki Pao screened in Munich
Bangladeshi director Kamar Ahmad Simon’s Shunte Ki Pao was screened at the prestigious Munich International Documentary Film Festival 2013 on Thursday. Screening of the documentary will be repeated on May 12 at the same festival. The festival, which began on Wednesday, will screen a total of 131 documentary films from across the world. Shunte
Tagore classics can make good films
Experts tell New Age Rabindranath Tagore wrote in a letter to Murari Bhaduri (theatre legend Sisir Kumar Bhaduri’s brother) in 1929 that cinema should ideally be a ‘flow of images’ that should not rely on the written word to communicate. This was even before India’s first talkie Alam Ara had been made. Perhaps it is ... Read more
Bangladeshi Film Fest to be held in US
A week-long Bangladeshi film festival featuring five local films will be held in New York, US. The festival titled ‘Ruhana-Channel-i Film Festival USA-2013’ will feature Channel-i produced films including Humayun Ahmed’s Ghetu Putra Kamola, Nasir Uddin Yousuff’s Guerilla, Goutom Ghosh’s Moner Manush, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s Third Person Singular Number and
CELEBRATING BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Today is the 152nd birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, the man who molded the language, literature and music of the Bengal. He introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from the rigidity of models based on classical Sanskrit. He is as great in music ... Read more
Rabindranath Tagore as a Rebel
Rabindrantath Tagore is essentially the foremost poet, writer of Bengali language and as such, we quite legitimately take pride in this extraordinarily talented man known to the entire world. A great part of our being is filled with Tagore’s spirit- hope and despair. He is the torch bearer in our journey through smooth path as ... Read more
Special TV programmes on Tagore
The television channels of the country have chalked out special programmes to celebrate the 152nd birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. The list consists of plays and telefilms; shows featuring music, dance and recitation; talk shows; and magazine programmes. ATN Bangla will air a documentary titled Rabir Chithite Bangladesh at 11:15am. The channel will also air ... Read more
Tales of Commoners in Jahangir’s Drawings
Any impartial assessment of our country must bring into light the vital significance of its industrious destitute people and the rivers. Eminent artist Syed Jahangir has tried to give vent to this assessment in his ongoing 39th solo exhibition titled Ink Drawing, Drawing and Color held at Shilpangan Gallery in Dhanmondi. The exhibition includes 45 ... Read more
Prof Anisuzzaman receives lifetime achievement award
Professor emeritus Dr Anisuzzaman, who is also a renowned scholar and Tagore researcher, was conferred with the eighth Channel-i Rabindra Mela lifetime achievement award at a programme held on Monday at Channel-i office in Tejgaon, Dhaka. In past years, Tagore singers and researchers including Kalim Sharafi, Ajit Roy, Rezwana Choudhury Bannya,
Dhaka to be centre of Asian children theatre
Chairman of Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation Liaquat Ali Lucky has been appointed the president of Asian regional centre of the International Amateur Theatre Association for the next four years in a recent council held in Singapore. Earlier, he had served as the vice-president of the organisation for the past four years.
13 Jatra troupes receive registration
It once seemed that jatra, a very old and traditional form of entertainment of the country, is at the verge of becoming extinct due to both people’s and government’s negligence in the new era of high-tech forms of entertainment. But to the joy of jatra lovers, ministry of cultural affairs has taken a commendable initiative ... Read more
Patachitra exhibition at AFD continues
Dhaka audience got the real flavour of the traditional patachira (scroll painting) on Friday at Alliance Française de Dhaka as the troupe led by Binoy Krishna Bishwash and Arun Das presented patagaan based on the narratives of Nikhil Chandra Das’ patachitra. The exhibition titled ‘The Dream’s Wear’ features patachitras by four renowned traditional patacitra artists ... Read more
Makbul Chowdhury’s 3 short films screened
Expatriate filmmaker Makbul Chowdhury’s three short films were screened at Dhaka Art Centre on Friday. The films made by Chowdhury depict various interesting subjects. The presentation style is also different from each other. The session began with screening of Raktajoba, made in 2006. The UK based maker gives an interesting aspect of circumcision,
Four singers perform in Sydney
Four young musicians performed at the Baishakhi celebrations in the Australian city Sydney last month. Prakash Banik, Selina Aktar Chumki and Safiul Alam Raja presented songs and Sayeed Hasan Babu played flute at the celebrations programme organised by Bangabandhu Council of Australia on April 20 at the Olympic Park in the city. Bangladeshi expatriates under ... Read more