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, Fahmida Khatun and Sadi Muhammad have been recipients of the honourable award for their contributions.
Professor Anisuzzaman, managing director of the channel Faridur Reza Sagor and head of news Shykh Seraj, educationalist professor Zillur Rahman Siddiqui and noted Tagore singer Rezwana Choudhury Bannya, among others were present at the programme.
A crest, an uttorio and a cheque of taka one lakh were handed over to professor Anisuzzaman at the programme. In expressing his feelings, the recipient stated, ‘In past years, the award has been conferred to different noted Tagore researchers and performers. It is a great honour indeed that this year the award has been bestowed to me. It makes me proud.’
It was also informed at the conference that Channel-i organises a fair each year on its premises in celebration of Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary. This year the channel is going to hold a day-long fair tomorrow marking the Nobel Laureate poet Tagore’s 151st birth anniversary tomorrow.
The greatest attraction of the fair will be the launching of a Tagore album of renowned playback singer Sabina Yasmin.
Noted Tagore artistes of the country will present songs and dance at the fair that will be inaugurated at 11.15am. The fair will include 20 stalls that will be displaying and selling books, CDs, souvenirs on Tagore. Artists will paint portraits of the poet at the fair. The funds that will be raised from the painting sale at the fair will be used for research on life and work of the poet.
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