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Event: Children painting competition

Staff Reporter

A children painting competition was held at the National Museum in the city on December 26. The National Museum authority organized the competition to celebrate the Victory Day. A total of 1,000 children took part in the painting competition.

Director General of the National Museum Samar Chandra Pal inaugurated the event as chief guest. Secretary of the National Museum Md Abdul Bari, guardians of the participants, among others, were present on the occasion.

Main theme of the painting competition was focused on our Victory Day.

Gonosangeet Samunnay Parishad forms human chain

Staff Reporter

Gonosangeet Samunnay Parishad formed a human chain at the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the city recently. General Secretary of the Gonosangeet Samunnay Parishad Mahbubul Haider Mohan and President of the Parishad folk artiste Fakir Alamgir spoke at the human chain. Gonosangeet artiste Habibul Alam conducted the programme. In the human chain, speakers demanded all to boycott war criminals and corrupted persons in upcoming elections.

Album News: HMV Saregama brings Himadri’s solo album

Entertainment Desk

Famous Indian music production house 'HMV Saregama' brings the second solo Rabindra Sangeet album of Bangladeshi artiste Himadri Shekhar. This is for the first time HMV releases solo Rabindra Sangeet album of any Bangladeshi artist.

Himadri Shekhar is now teaching in a private university in Dhaka. He was a student of 'Santiniketan.' He is reputed for his sweet voice and divine melodious tone creates soft feelings all around the listeners. The album contains tracks like 'Tumi kemon kore gaan koro he guni,' 'Megh bolechhe jabo jabo' and other renowned songs. The album is a collection of known-famous songs.

It is mentioned that noted Esraj player Shuvayu Sen Majumder played Esraj for the album. He has directed music of the album and used beautiful combination of different musical instrumental instruments. Himadri's first album 'Akarone Gaan Gai' had been released in 2007.

Career Line on Dtv

Entertainment Report

Career show 'Career Line' to be aired on Diganta Television (DTV) at 3:30pm today. Former national cricket player Khaled Mahmud Sujon will discuss about his career and future of cricket in Bangladesh. Enamul Karim is producer of the show.

TV Show: Amader Rannaghar tonight

Entertainment Report

Cooking related television show 'Amader Rannaghar' to be aired on Banglavision at 9:05pm on Monday. Ushnish Chakraborty has produced the programme, while Parvin Sultana Diti has moderated the show.

In each episode, a cooking expert presents as guest at the show and gives cooking tips and replies questions from the viewers. Besides, other segments like 'Tips' and 'Letters' will be presented at the show.

Telefilm: Potro Mitali on ATN Bangla

Entertainment Report

As a part of the election programmes telefilm 'Potro Mitali' to be aired on ATN Bangla at 1:20pm on December 29. Brindaban Das has scripted the story of the film, while Salauddin Lovlu has directed it. ATM Shamsuzzaman, Chanchal Chowdhury, Alvi, Dolly Zahur, Shamim Zaman, AkhM Hasan, among others, have performed in the telefilm.

Story of Potro Mitali:

Safed Ali is an aged person in a village. At his old age he decides to communicate by pen friends. His grandson Chand is young and he is also fascinates with pen friends. Unfortunately Chand and his grandfather communicate with same girl. But both of them did not understand the matter. While reading an advertisement in the newspaper two friends Asif and Dewana felt interested to become pen friends. Then many interesting incidents happened.

TV Watch: Made in Bangladesh on Channel i

Entertainment Report

Full length Bengali feature film 'Made in Bangladesh' to be aired on Channel i at 2:30am today. Mostafa Sarwar Farooki has directed the film. Shahiduzzaman Selim, Zahid Hasan, Rosy Siddiqui, Tarique Anam Khan, Shahidul Alam Sachchu, Marjuk Russell, Dilara Zaman, Joyonto Chatterjee, among others, have performed in the film.

Publication of disputed Holocaust memoir cancelled

AP, New York

The publisher of a disputed Holocaust memoir has cancelled the book, adding the name Herman Rosenblat to an increasingly long line of literary fakers and bringing down with a crash his story - embraced by Oprah Winfrey, among others - of meeting his future wife at a Nazi concentration camp.

Rosenblat's 'Angel at the Fence' had been scheduled to come out in February, but Berkley Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), withdrew the memoir Saturday following allegations by scholars, friends and family members that his tale was untrue.

"Berkley Books is cancelling publication of Angel at the Fence after receiving new information from Herman Rosenblat's agent, Andrea Hurst," the publisher said in a statement. A couple of days earlier, Berkley had offered a qualified defence of the book, saying it was a work of memory, a story whose truth was known only to the author.

Rosenblat, 79, a resident of the Miami area, was virtually unknown to the general public until the 1990s when he began speaking of how he came to know his wife, Roma Radzicky. According to Rosenblat and his wife, he was a prisoner at a sub-camp of Buchenwald in Nazi Germany and she a young Jewish girl whose family was pretending to be Christian and lived nearby.

For months, they would meet on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence, where she would sneak him apples and bread. Rosenblat was then transferred to another camp and the two lost touch, until the 1950s, when they were reunited by accident - on a blind date - in New York. They soon married and earlier this year celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

Will AR Rahman do it this time at the Globes?

When the director of the film Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle, which has been nominated in 7 categories for the Golden Globe Awards, claims that it is Rahman who, according to Boyle fancies chances of wining the Golden Globe in his category than any in any other category, it sure is a monumental achievement for the musical acumen of Rahman. If there is one music director who has whetted the appetite of the Hindi music lovers, and has provided an exposure to songs based on Western classical tunes, but arranged to create an appeal of enigma on the sensibilities of the Indian audience, Rahman is the person. From the time when he made his debut with Roja up to Yuvvraaj, Rahman has gone on to explore new frontiers of Western music through his oeuvre. His latest exposition Yuvvraaj testifies to the same, as he provided a window to the average music aficionado of India to understand the charm that is evoked when the strings of a bow play on the cello.

He is also one music director who has literally cast spell on whole of the country, as his proficiency is expressed through music that he gives in Tamil, Telugu and Kannada films. As a matter of fact, the music of Roja when it was released in Hindi was the same but with the lyrics being translated into Hindi. - Agency