Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 1,383 views
This is a fairly old natok, it stars the famous Bangladeshi band "Black". The theme song for this natok is Arnob's famous song "Shey Je Boshe Ache". I actualy did the encoding myself for this video so excuse an errors of audio/video syncronization if you see any.
Also, as ...
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Thursday, March 13th, 2008 260 views
ASSAM, the New BANGLADESH?
Assam? Where is it?
Well if you look towards the East in the Indian map, the place lies behind Bangladesh, connected to mainland India by a small gap called "Chickens Neck" near Siliguri-Darjeeling section. The airport serving this particular region is Bagdogra, which also is a defence ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008 558 views
I am astonished to see how many Bengali singers there are in Indian Idol and Sa Re Ga Ma. No doubt Bengalis are great singers and musicians who have resonated their talents to others places. One of these gifted singers is Runa Laila, a Karachi born Bengali who ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 259 views
A lot of parents are crazy for young grooms from abroad who are settled in western countries and who have a good education. However, a lot of the Desi parents overlook the culture that some of these young men experience while living abroad. Some of the factors of ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 873 views
Bangla is spoken by millions abroad by Probashi Bengalis (Bengalis abroad) and non-Bengalis. In my observation a lot of Bengali youth of America have forgotten a lot of Bangla; they either speak Banglish (Bangla+English) or banga Bangla (broken Bangla).
What's stopping the spread of Bangla
More and more people ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008 254 views
Bangladesh is one of the few countries that has close to all of the inhabitants, about 98% of the country, to be one ethnicity. Unlike India and Pakistan there aren't any ethnic clashes other than against indigenous tribal people and the Bengali invaders. After the 1971 liberation war, ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 1,160 views
Bangladesh's music industry, unlike West Bengal's music industry, isn't influenced by the Bollywood atmosphere. I love Bollywood songs, don't get me wrong, and I also love West Bengali songs, but West Bengalis singers always seem to imitate the Hindi song style. Few small timer Bangladeshi singers imitate and sing ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 310 views
Bangladesh (known as East Bengal prior to 1947) and West Bengal, India were once together but split up by the British powers due to Muslim-Hindu struggle for power over the region. To the main stream Bengalis there are two Bengali states; however in my opinion there is a third ...
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