Ripa Sarkar

Been Caught Stealing

Rishloo is a prog group from the US, best known for their immersive and technically challenging music and thought-provoking lyrics.

On 29 August 1976, the national poet of Bangladesh Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam breathed his last in the Post Graduate hospital of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Pour Some Sugar on Me

Na Ghumder Gaan

How Long We Have To Sing This Song

Jedin Jenesi Bhasar Jonno

We all look at the rainbow and wonder how it has seven colours blended into the same being. Poet Nazrul Islam aspired to filter out one colour and offer red colour to decorate the feet of his beloved. (Rang dhanu hote lal rong chani… Alta porabo pay).

Go With the Flow

Mohammad Mizanur Rahman

Back in 1978, in Dhaka University, I came across one of my juniors in the department of statistics. Her name was Rumana Omar.

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Ki Ghor Bandhimu Ami

My Guru sister Padmasree Tripti Mukherjee wrote in her Facebook status last week 'During his visit in NYC for Hoover Medal awarded by Columbia University in 2009, I and Archana Gollamudi (her friend) went to meet President Abdul Kalam, with my Guruji (Sangeet Martand Pandit Jasraj).

Chew Chew

Organised by Dhaka Pop Expo for the third time, the Dhaka Pop Culture Expo 2015 came and went in style, despite the Kamen-caused drizzles and downpour.

Playlist of the week

Durbadal Chatterjee, a child prodigy starting his first performance at the age of seven, learning violin from his father, a famous violin player Moni Chatterjee.

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