Mirpur: As Bangladesh celebrates their Independence day today (March 26) patriotic songs were played all night through the loudspeaker outside my hotel room. Despite reaching the hotel way past ...

Today, on 25th Boishakh, the 164th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, the legacy of his music continues to echo far and wide- not just in the hearts of Bengalis, but across the ...

In 2006, on my way back home from Mexico via Paris, I had a week's stopover in Stockholm. After long hours' of air travel, I was exhausted. I was one of the non-Europeans who were stopped by customs ...

A controversy has erupted in Assam’s Rabindranath Tagore University (RTU) over the use of a Tagore song as its anthem in the Bengali language. Ethno-regional organisations have demanded that this ...

Childhood, they say, is one of the rare joys of life. William Shakespeare called it the first age of man. Marcel Proust constantly sought to return to it. On Sunday, the duo of composer Shantanu ...