Date: August 27, 2005 Time: 5:00PM Venu: Marobra Police Citizen Youth Club  Details...

-Dr. Qaiyum Parvez & Dr. Nurur Rahman

CITY TO SURF 2005

Australia’s biggest Community event _ The City to Surf _ 14 km fun run from Hyde Park to Bondi Beach was held on 14^th August (Sunday). Like previous years, a large number of people from Bangladesh Community participated along with the 60,000+ participants. Reports... Photos...

Sent By: Nawshad  Shah 

Two programmes are scheduled for this month at the ANU:

1. Australia South Asian Centre, ANU----18th August " Economic Diplomacy of South Asia" at the Innovation Building, ANU

 2. Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy, ANU, Coombs Extension Building. Below is the notice by the College for  25th August Public seminar on the "Third World Diplomacy".

PUBLIC SEMINAR:  Third World Diplomacy , Hosted by the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Speaker: Ambassador Harun-ur-Rashid, Former Ambassador of Bangladesh

When:   Thursday, 25 August 2005, 12:30-1:30pm

 Where: Lecture Room, Coombs Extension Building, Fellows Rd, ANU

  All welcome, Details...       Sent By: Kamrul Ahsan

 Sent By: Dr. Abdul Haq, Success list for 2005...

Dr. Qaiyum Parvez is an academic of the University of Western Sydney. E-mail:Q.Parvez@uws.edu.au

Priyo Canberra has a number of voluntary vacancies for young people who wish to contribute to the growth of Bangla media and culture in Canberra and Australia generally or who wish to gain practical work experience in online media and internet publishing. These positions would suite people who are considering career options in the growth area of internet design, editing or management or who simply want to have some fun in a creative and technologically sophisticated environment. Details...

Open Competition for Kids
Bangla Proshar Committee is going to organize an open competition of
writing, recitation of poems/rhymes and debate. 

Venue: Matraville Public School, Bunnerong Road, Matraville, NSW.
Time:12.30 pm.      Details...

Sent By: Rafiqul Islam

Protity Presented Rabindra and Nazrul Jayanti

On the 6^th of August Saturday, Protity organised a musical program for Rabindra and Nazrul Jayanti at The Pavilion, Castle Hill Showground. The program was divided into two parts. The first part was ‘Jai Din, Srabon Din Jai,’ which was dedicated to world famous poet, Rabindranath Tagore. The second part ‘Hridoye Thar Srithi Jage,’ was dedicated to the national poet of Bangladesh, Kazi Nazrul Islam. This program included solo, chorus, dance and narration performances. Photos...

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

Date: 1 April 2006, Venue: John Clancy Auditorium, UNSW

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...

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.

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...

On the 27^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...

Dilruba Shahana lives in Melbourne.