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Devi Saraswati - the goddess of knowledge and wisdom [Image: exoticindiaart.com]

23 Jan 2012

This week’s program featured: (1) the worship of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge and wisdom, in the world where religion plays an important role on human lives, and (2) an informative discussion on heart disease based on Heart Specialist Dr. Devi Shety’s Interview with WIPRO employees in Bangalore, India. The second part of the program was dedicated to the students of 44th batch of the Bangladesh Agricultural Institute. The songs played in this week’s program ‘saraswati namasthubyam’, ‘saraswati ma’, 'choley gechhe bondhu amar’ and ‘bari gari aha mori’ were sung by Indian singers Anup Jalota, Manna Dey and Bangladeshi singer Nakul Kumar Biswas respectively. This week’s program was produced and presented by Ajoy Kar.

16 Jan 2012

This week's program featured architectural heritage of Lalbagh Fort in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Built around 1678, it is an unique example of Moghul Architecture in Bengal. Recently Lalbagh Fort has been proposed for inclusion in the UNESCO world heritage items register. This week's program also featured a conversation with Bangladeshi architect and historian Mizanur Rashid in Malaysia. Architect Rashid elaborated different historical aspects of the fort and told many unknown facts. The songs played in this week's program 'nurjahan' and 'ganga shindhu normoda' were sung by Bangladeshi singer Feroza Begum and Indian singer Angshuman Roy. This week's program was produced and presented by Sheikh Lana.

9 Jan 2012

This week's program presented an interview with Dr. Vernon Bailey discussing meditation and healing garden. Dr Bailey a distinguished Canberra nutritionist, who worked over fifty years in Asia mainly Indonesia, spoke about spiritual healing and multicultural reconciliation and the establishment of the Environment Meditation and Healing Garden in Canberra by the Canberra Interfaith Forum represented by the people from different faiths in Canberra. The beautiful songs played in the program: 'muchhey jaoa dinguli', 'pother klanti bhuley', 'dinguli mor shonar khanchae' and 'tui phele eshechhish karey' were sung by Indian singers Hemanta Mukhapadhay and Indrani Sen. This week's program was produced and presented by Ajoy Kar.

2 Jan 2012

The first program of 2012 has been dedicated to three Bangla Radio Canberra producers: Dr. Sadequr Rahman, Dr. Bina D'Costa and Ms. Sakiba Rahman, who recently left Canberra to take up their new roles in Kuala Lumpur and Geneva. Bangla Radio is very much in debt for their contribution in the management and production of radio programs on a wide range of topics over the last ten years. In recollection this week's program played parts of the recording from recent annual meeting presided by Dr. Sadequr Rahman, the past Coordinator, held in his residence. The two beautiful songs played in the program: 'aaj abar money porey' and 'bhuley jao prothom aalap' were sung by popular Kolkata band 'chandrabindu'. This week's program was produced and presented by Ehsan Ullah.

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