The year 1916 was an important one for the Bengali language. The Bangiya Sahitya Parishat published a volume of poetry and songs called Hajar Bacharer Purana Bangla Bhasay Bauddho Gaan o Doha (One ...

Invoking the ‘baul’ philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, on his sesquicentennial birth anniversary, prolific singers of Bengali including Srikanto Acharya, Lopamudra Mitra, Rupankar and elocutionist ...

From here the Charyāpada has reached the world. Artists in Europe, America, Japan, China, and Sri Lanka are learning and performing Charyā songs—in Bengali.

A special Baul and folk music programme will follow in Scotland on July 15, before an international seminar and workshop at ...

For two-thirds of his life, Ismail Shah was a family man. He and his wife raised four sons and a daughter, relying on agriculture to support their family. Born to a Muslim family in a village in ...