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To celebrate 50 years of Bangladesh’s independence, Bengal Foundation organised Srijone O Shekore, a 5-day arts festival, from 14 to 18 December 2021, at Bengal Shilpalay, Dhaka. Supported by BRAC Bank, the festival featured performing arts, visual art, crafts, books, film, readings, and events for children. Over 300 singers-musicians-dancers-craftspersons-artists performed on stage and engaged in various kinds of programming at the festival, over the five days.

Noted actor and recitation artist Bhaswar Bandopadhyay/ Banerjee graduated with top honours from the National School of Drama in New Delhi, India. After his return to Dhaka he formed the Kotha Abritti Chorcha Kendra in 1985. He completed his masters in Mass Communication and Journalism from Dhaka University and has a Ph. D in Dramatics from Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. He was Director of the National Institute of Mass Communication (NIMC) and is currently Adjunct Faculty of the Department of Film and Media Studies, Stamford University, Dhaka. Bhaswar Banerjee was awarded the Ekushey Padak in 2021 for his contribution in arts and literature. On the second day of the Srijone o shekore arts festival, Bhaswar Bandyopadhyay enthralled the audience with a compelling reading of Jibanananda Das’ poem Jodi benche thaki. The poem is included in Das’ seventh book of poems ‘Rupashi Bangla’ (1957). Like most of his works, Das chose to not publish the book nor any poem from it during his lifetime.

Jibanananda Das was born in 1899 in the district-town Barishal, in Bangladesh. He finished college in Barishal and then completed MA in English from the Calcutta University in 1921. His first poem was published in 1919 in a magazine in Barishal; first collection of poems, Jhara Palak (`Fallen Feathers') came out in 1927. Buddhadeva Bose was the first to discuss Jibanananda's poetry in Pragati. Later on, Buddhadeva and his poetry magazine Kavita played a seminal role in establishing Jibanananda as perhaps the most influential of the post-Tagore poets. Many poems, and all the prose fictions that Jibanananda wrote were discovered after his death in 1954.

Jibanananda Das's lyricism is unparalleled in Bengali literature. His early poems are vivid, eloquent celebrations of the beauty of Bengal; his later works, written in the 1940 and '50s, are darker, comments on political issues and current affairs like the Second World War, the Bengal Famine of '43 and Hindu-Muslim riots at the time of Partition (Jibanananda Das: Selected Poems, Chidananda Dasgupta, Penguin, 2006). While he is best known for poetry that reveals a deep love of nature and rural landscapes, tradition and history, Jibanananda is also strikingly urban, and introspective, his work centring on themes of loneliness, depression and death. He was a master of word-images, and his unique poetic idiom drew on tradition but was startlingly new. His best known collections of poetry include Banalata Sen (1942) and Rupasi Bangla (Beautiful Bengal, written in 1934 but published in 1957). Jibanananda died in a tram accident in 1954. In 1955, his Shreshtha Kabita (Best Poems) received the Sahitya Akademi Award.

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Bengal Foundation has been promoting Bengali music for decades in order to nurture and uphold the musical traditions of Bengal. The Foundation releases a wide selection of Bengali albums to the public, conducts workshops, and well as create opportunities to train under distinguished musicians at the Bengal Parampara Sangeetalay. Bengal Foundation’s music programme also frequently organises a number of large scale music events which include the Bengal Classical Music Festival.
Bengal Foundation’s music programme aims to pave the way for better appreciation and understanding of the fundamentals of music; as well as to energise, influence and promote the music industry of Bangladesh.


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