Bangla folk music is a rich and diverse genre that has evolved over centuries in the eastern part of the subcontinent comprising the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, and Bangladesh. From the ...

“The kids come here because their parents push them to come,” said Athena Akram, instructor at the Bangla School of Music. The tiny school, which nurtures the music, language and culture of Bangladesh ...

The guitars screamed, the drums hammered and the crowd sang along—not in English, but in Bangla. That night in September, we pushed through the throng at Dr. Jeckyll’s Beer Lab in Pantego, Texas, ...

On a Friday afternoon, on the way to work, I got a text that Nirob Islam, a Sweden-based, Bangladeshi songwriter, would be taking a 'Songwriting Masterclass' at our The Daily Star premises. While many ...

The power of rock music and literature can still unite people in Kolkata, that too on a humid afternoon. However, when the psychedelic Bangla rock band Shonar Bangla Circus started its soundcheck at ...

The debate in Bangladesh often proceeds as if music education were a luxury and a cultural ornament that can be stripped away without academic consequence. The scientific evidence says otherwise ...