Sadya Afreen Mallick

As the mercury steadily dropped, the chill in the air felt starkly different from the fiery situation prevailing everywhere across the

The late sitar maestro Nikhil Bandhopadhyay during his stay with Acharya Baba Allauddin Khan, awoke one night to the sound of

The year 2017 will always have a cloud of grief around it as the country said their final farewell to a galaxy of cultural personalities of the likes of Syed Shamsul Haque, Karunamaya Goswami, Sudhin Das, Kazi Arif, Kuti Monsur, Abdul Jabbar, Razzak, Bari Siddiqui and on November 30 Annisul Huq.

Folk legend Bari Siddiqui passed away on 24th November, leaving behind a legacy of folk music that will be difficult to replicate by anyone. He was 63 years old, and was laid to rest at his home town in Netrokona. The Daily Star was privileged enough to have an exclusive interview of the great artist a few years ago, where he talked about his life, music and his own philosophy about them.

Eminent folk singer and flautist Bari Siddiqui passed away around 2am on November 24 at the capital's Square Hospital. He was 63. Following his Namaz-e-Janaza at Dhaka University's Central Mosque and his workplace Bangladesh Television, he was laid to eternal rest at his birthplace in Netrokona after Asr prayers yesterday.

“Bashir Ahmed was one of the chief architects of the golden era of our Bangla music. Since his death in 2014 his musical presence has been a great loss. He was committed to music, and chose this as a profession unlike many who followed it as a pastime. It's a pity that many of our golden melodies will not be heard anymore,” remarked Syed Abdul Hadi, referring to the late singer and music director, Bashir Ahmed, whose birthday was on November 18.

Sudhin Das, renowned exponent of Nazrul songs for over half a century, left for his eternal abode on June 27, 2017. A pall of gloom has enveloped the art circuit with his passing.

Standing at the foot of the snow-capped mountains of the Himalayas, Rabi felt an overpowering sense of freedom.

As I entered the red brick Chhayanaut Sangskriti Bhaban in Dhanmondi, I was struck by its magnificence.

One of our favourite pastimes was to gather with our friends on the rooftops and practice broto-chari...with the daily laundry strung as 'tents' off course,” my mother would tell us whenever the women's movement came up in the conversation.

The romantic lyricist Mohammad Rafiquzzaman turns 75. Music organisation Nibedan felicitated the lyricist with a special programme conferring a citation on him, discussion and an offering of his compositions.

“As the harsh winter gradually settled in the northern region of the country, and time was ripe for harvesting, the jatra troupes were busy setting out large marquees in the open air for the enthusiastic suburbanites," said a nostalgic Abdul Aziz, who has a track record of 500 radio plays and 300 TV plays.

With the first sun rays gleaming through the thin layer of fog, Dhaka will spring to life. World class artistes - the “Kalavats” - will prepare their string, wind, percussion instruments and vocals and dance to demonstrate their mastery, to express their adulation towards their Creator.

Sudhin Das, renowned exponent of Nazrul songs for over half a century, turned 86 on April 30. Looking back, he has almost single-

When Tagore came to Rajshahi and Kushtia (1890) to take charge of his family estate, it seemed miles away from the life he was

Way back in 1993, I was presented a rare audio cassette with an original song by Dilip Kumar Roy, a celebrated singer of the

Nazrul was restless -- a defining trait of his character. He had been granted permission to come down from heaven to his beloved country to see for himself how his devotees were celebrating his 117th birthday.

“Rabindranath was one among the nearly seven hundred occupants at the Jorashanko Thakur Bari, and grew up with thirteen siblings: it was not that easy to be the shining star in an environment such as that,” says Tagore enthusiast and educationist Dr. A.B.M Nurul Anwar.

It was not so long ago that we stumbled upon Baishakh at home away from home. Grim foggy London was finally waking up to spring.

As Tagore refers to viswa veena or the lute of the universe in many of his songs...