KOLKATA: Shiraz Ali Khan, a Kolkata-based sarod player with family roots in Bangladesh, was to perform in a concert at Chhayanaut in Dhaka on Dec 19. But just hours before the programme, the culture hub was vandalised amid a nationwide spiral of unrest triggered by the death of radical activist Sharif Osman Hadi.Shiraz managed to “flee” to Kolkata on Saturday evening, suppressing his Indian...
Kolkata: Bengal's cultural fraternity has strongly condemned the vandalism of Chhayanaut office in Dhanmondi — one of Bangladesh's oldest heritage-rich cultural organisations — in the wake of the death of Inquilab Moncho neta Osman Hadi. Chhayanaut was founded in 1961 specifically to defy a ban by Pakistan's military rules on celebrating Rabindranath Tagore's birth centenary. It became a symbol of...
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