Recitation and music evening at Natl Museum today
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On the occasion of Bijoy Dibos (Victory Day), Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre is organising an evening of recitation by Dr Sahadat Hossain Nipu and songs by Kamalika Chakraborty today evening at the Kobi Sufia Kamal Auditorium of Bangladesh National Museum, Shahbag in the capital. Dr Sahadat Hossain Nipu is an elocutionist, producer of theatre, writer and researcher. He studied MA in Drama at Rabindra Bharati University through ICCR scholarship, and got his Doctorate from Bardhaman University. He was trained under famous theatre personalities in India, namely, Kumar Ray, Bivash Chakrovorty, and Manoj Mitra. He also got training in elocution from the famous Indian elocutionist Pradip Ghosh.
He has taken out 25 audio CDs and written 7 research books and 12 poetry and rhyme collections. He is a special grade artist of Bangladesh Television and Betar. Kamalika Chakraborty is an Indian singer married to a Bangladeshi national and is now settled here. She has specialized in Nazrul Geeti and also sings Rabindra Sangeet, adhunik and folk songs. She has learnt Nazrulgeeti from Sangeeta Bose, the disciple of the eminent Nazrul singer Late Dr Anjali Mukhopadhyay in West Bengal and has a 6 yr diploma certificate from the Pracheen Kala Kendra, Chandigarh, India. She has also trained in Hindustani classical vocal music and light music from eminent music gurus of India, namely, Pandit Dinanath Mishra, Pt. Ajay Chakraborty, Haimanti Shukla and Kalyan Sen Barat.
Where: Natl Museum, Shahbag
When: 6:30pm, Today
