The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rangpur

Renowned cultural personalities and speakers have stressed the need for proper preservation, flourishing and nurturing of the rich cultural heritage of our forefathers for building a developed nation with its own entity.

The Vaoyaiya songs with heart-throbbing musical tunes not only attracted our forefathers and contributed largely in developing the civilization on the Brahmaputra basin over the centuries, but still can play a vital role in reviving the past glory of our rich culture and heritage, they said.

They also said that the cultural heritage of our predecessors must be nurtured with due honour and dignity for knowing the roots of a proud nation and bringing back the lost social b values and glories in the society.

They said this at a discussion organised on the occasion of observing the 107th birth anniversary of Vaoyaiya Samrat Abbas Uddin Ahmed at Rangpur Town Hall auditorium that ended at midnights on Monday night.

Rangpur Vaoyaiya Academy (RVA) organised the discussion and a colourful cultural evening to pay due respect to the great son of the country Abbas Uddin Ahmed.

With president of RVA Advocate Rezeka Sultana Fency in the chair, the discussion was addressed by Deputy Director General (Programme) of Bangladesh Betar from Dhaka Abdur Rouf as the chief guest.

Renowned Vaoyaiya personality Mostafa Zaman Abbasi, Rangpur DC Abdul Ahad, Regional Director of Rangpur Betar Khurshid Alam Chowdhury, renowned folklore artist of Kolkata, music composer and researcher Dr Sukh Bilap Burma, chairman of Bangladesh Vaoyaiya Academy Nadira Begum, were present.

The speakers laid stress on preserving, flourishing and nurturing the rich cultural heritage of the predecessors for leading the nation forward with its own identity and said that the songs of Abbas Uddin Ahmed are integral part of the country's cultural heritage as well as source of inspirations for the people.

"It will be the proper way to pay due respect to the great artiste if his ideals and patriotic feelings are preserved, flourished and properly nurtured by our future generation that will help them knowing our rich cultural and moral heritages," they said.

The Vaoyaiya songs with heart-throbbing tunes not only attracted our forefathers and contributed largely to the county's cultural development, but those songs still can play a vital role in reviving the past glory of our rich culture, they added.

The speakers put special emphasis on saving our national and cultural heritage from the aggression of the foreign satellite cultures for maintaining our own entity as a proud nation and flourishing Vaoyaiya songs for reviving the lost social values and humanism.

Later, a jam-packed audience of all ages in the Town hall auditorium enjoyed a very charming and attractive Vaoyaiya evening in which noted artists rendered Vaoyaiya songs to end the ceremony at midnight .