Today is the 64^th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore's death.

Venue: Harvey Lowe Pavilion, Castle Hill Showground

Bangladesh Association of NSW Annual Cultural Night 

Bangladesh Association of NSW organised the annual cultural night, as they do every year, at Parramatta Town Hall on 30^th July 2005. There were many people who came to the function. The program started with speeches from invited guests including many High officials and guests who were present there such as The Bangladesh High Commissioner, H.E Ashraf-Ud Doula, Parramatta Federal MP Julie Owens and many others. After the speeches, the Cricket Tournament Prizes were presented with a dinner break following the trophy presentation. Ferdous Ara, a famous singer of Bangladesh, sang some popular Nazrul Geeti and Modern Bangla songs after the intermission.. Photos...

Sent by: Mohammed Fahimul Islam, 2nd Secretary, Bangladesh High Commission

The good news is that 100% fund has been collected for Hridoy's treatment. The final figure will exceed the latest estimated figure of 80 Lakh Taka. It's also good to see that more than 50% was donated by the people living outside Bangladesh. Our final contribution from Australia is about AU$ 17,000, after we have successfully Double our first lot of contribution ($6914)....Photos... Details...  Prothom-Alo 

HANIF SHANKET concert at Sydney Town Hall on 28th August 2005,  by " The Australian Association for Bangla Institute of Culture" The other singers from Bangladesh TV that will perform in the same venue are: AKBAR, ANDREW KISHOR, BABY NAZNIN, MOMTAJ and, others. Tickets are ON SALE now at various Bangladeshi Grocery stores. Details...

Dilruba Shahana lives in Melbourne.

Campbelltown Bangla School Annual Cultural Night

Campbelltown Bangla School arranged an annual cultural night on the 23^rd July, 2005 at James Meehan High School Auditorium. The program started with speeches delivered by many invited high officials and the Bangladesh High Commissioner, H.E. Ashraf-Ud Doula. This was followed by the prize distribution ceremony for the winners of the open competition and then the childrens’ program, which included singing, dancing and poetry recitations. The night ended with the solo performances of the three guest artists Abdullah Al Mamoon, Amia Matin and Sirajus Salekin. Photos...         PROGRAM PRESS RELEASE...

Dr. Qaiyum Parvez is an academic of the University of Western Sydney.

This year marks the 35th anniversary of The Sun-Herald City to Surf.
You can expect it to be an exciting year for Australia's greatest
community fun run.In 2005 two new changes will be introduced to The Sun-Herald City to Surf. The race will start at the earlier time of 9.30am on the 14th August 2005 and due to the narrowing of William Street it has beendecided to divide The Sun-Herald Start (previously known as Group A)into two separate starts. Details...

-Nawshad Shah

An Array of Environmental Problems Threaten  Bangladesh: Contamination of drinking water; the level of arsenic is more than 500 percent of the WHO recommended safe mark for over 80 million people. Desertification of large parts of the country due to construction of dams and barrages upstream in India.  Sea Level rise and the prospect of large-scale inundation. Air pollution in urban areas, periodical flooding,  pollution of rivers, the destruction of forests and wetlands. Details...

Sent by: Kamrul Ahsan Khan

Postcolonial light on three Bengali playtexts

There is no full-length investigation of post-coloniality in Bangladeshi Bengali literature. This is partly because Bangladesh had no separate identity under colonial rule, being just another part of greater India. Then at partition, it became one section of the unnatural union that was Pakistan. These two identities have kept Bangladesh as a relatively unknown domain, at least to the Western academy. The other reason in the context of literary postcolonial studies is that these have concentrated on writing in English, whereas Bangladeshi literature is almost completely in the national language. This study offers a discussion of the post-coloniality of contemporary Bangladeshi theatre via analysis of selected playtexts. You are invited to visit the following website:
http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20020219.094704/
-Khairul Haque Chowdhury, khairul@uow.edu.au

Mohammed A Razzaque Ph.D. is currently teaching at UNSW.

Organized by Bangladesh Islamic centre. Details...

Listen a Modern Bangla Song  By Al Mamoon

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On the 20^th August, 2005, the Bangabandhu Parishad Australia will remember ‘Jatio Shok Dibosh’. Details...

-Dr. Qaiyum Parvez & Dr. Nurur Rahman

 Sent by: Bangladesh High Commission, Canberra. Details...

Bangladesh High Commissioner Meets With Media Representatives

Dilruba Shahana lives in Melbourne.

CHARINDAA's 2005 debut event is an Australian concert tour by A.R. Rahman accompanied by celebrated singers Hariharan, Chitra, Sadhana Sargam, Shankar Mahadevan, Alka Yagnik, Blaaze, Madhushree and Kailesh Kher. 

Venue: Sydney SuperDome, NSW Sydney Seating

Abed Chaudhury is a scientist and writer who currently lives in Canberra. E-mail: abed@kanihati.com More poems