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, ...
Without these cultural interventions, it is hard to imagine how the world might have recognised our struggle as its own. Art endures because it does what politics alone cannot: it fixes memory, ...
George Harrison helped redefine pop music as part of The Beatles. As the band changed its sound, Harrison found ways to incorporate Indian music (“Within You Without You”), his slide guitar talents ...
About 3,000 Catholics, from children to the elderly, thronged to Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Bonpara in Bangladesh's Natore district to attend the annual feast of Mother Mary. As the feast day Mass ...
Cutting across faiths, ethnicities and classes, Bangladeshi people are mourning Andrew Kishor, one of the country’s most popular and prolific singers for nearly four decades. Kishor, 65, a member of ...
As religious hardliners tighten their grip in Bangladesh, Baul singers face arrests, attacks and bans. It raises fears that ...
A refrain from a well-known old film song loops in my head: "Baba bole gelo/ Ar kono din gaan koro na/ Keno bole gelo/ Shey kotha ti bole gelo na/ Gaan jodi prithibi te nai thakto/ 'sa re ga ma pa dha ...
Bangladesh’s education system is facing renewed pressure from fundamentalist groups opposing the government’s plan to introduce music and dance teachers in primary schools. Organisations such as ...
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