At a time when there was little awareness of world music, playing western tunes on eastern instruments like the flute and the ...

In the age of Spotify algorithms and TikTok trends, it may seem improbable that a body of music composed over a century ago still manages to feel emotionally urgent and eerily modern. Yet Rabindra ...

The Bengali and Assamese communities in Mumbai celebrated Poila Baisakh and Bohag Bihu, their New Year's day on Tuesday. For Bengalis, Poila Baisakh is Nobo Borsho, the first day of Baisakh, the first ...

The broadcast of Gaan Bangla, a private music-focused television channel in Bangladesh, has been suspended. The channel went off-air abruptly at around 12pm on Wednesday. It has been reported that the ...

A case has been filed over the alleged illegal takeover of 'Gaan Bangla', the country’s only music-based private television channel, against its Managing Director Kaushik Hossain Taposh, his wife and ...

An arts and cultural festival celebrating Bengali artists is taking place in Birmingham. A series of events are being held between 16-23 November for Bangla Week 2024. The festival, organised by ...

Renowned director Priyadarshan and superstar Akshay Kumar were spotted together last year, and the photo got leaked which created a lot of buzz. Everyone was waiting for the duo to come together again ...

‘Tomay Gaan Shonabo’, one of Rabindranath's iconic, most-recorded songs turns hundred years this year. The flow of this song is very mellow, just like a moment of sleepy dawn. The centenary of this ...

Legendary Bengali singer Sandhya Mukhopadhyay passed away in Kolkata on Tuesday after a brief illness. She was 90. Sandhya Mukhopadhyay took Bengali songs to new heights, whether it was playback ...

The soulful strain of Pannalal Bhattacharya wafts through Kolkata on the morning of Kali Puja. Shyama Puja or Kali Puja is synonymous with this mellifluous Shyama Sangeet, but how many of us know the ...

Kolkata in West Bengal is known as the cultural capital of India and Bengalis perhaps are known to be the proudest torchbearers of their culture and traditions. When it comes to Durga Puja, the whole ...

Unique T-shirts with popular Bangla lyrics are all the rage now! Which one are you switching your Iron Maiden tee for? It comes as no surprise that Bengalis are extremely sentimental about their ...