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Expansion of Alor Ishkool Countrywide

Approx 50 new branches with present activities of Alor Ishkool will be opened very soon said professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed Founder of Bishwo Sahitto Kendro (BSK) on their 41th anniversary 17 December 2019.

Aalor Ishkool (School of Enlightenment) is a BSK’s latest program to create the intellectuals for the tomorrow. It may be considered as the enhanced and enriched phase of the Developing Readin Habit and Nationwide Enrichment Program operating in schools and colleges by BSK..

A cycle of five-year-long programme in which around 75 courses on subjects as varied as literature, world music, dance, paintings, sculpture, architecture, film, world history, religion, science, philosophy, sociology, economics, politics, psychology, education, environment, photography etc. are offered. People from all walks of life above the age of 18 can participate in this programme.

The study circle programme had been a unique programme of BSK since its foundation but  later it was merged with the Aalor Ishkool. It is designed mainly to fullfill the intellectual appetite on different fields of knowledge.

Study circles are a small group engaged in academic discussion, debate, and critique on various topics on selected books. This is a training to expand the logical thinking of the participants to analyze any problem differently and find the alternative solutions to the social or community issues. 

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Bishwo Shahitto Kendro - BSK (World Literature Center) is a civil organization aiming at building enlightened, enriched and committed citizens among the future generation of Bangladesh through various educational and cultural programmes since in 1978. Renowned educationist and social activist Professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed took this great initiative of enlightenment.

BSK believes that like other successful nations, Bangladesh needs many enlightened, honest, progressive and committed people at different positions of the society to provide the leadership. All the programs of BSK are designed to achive the success.Their Slogan Is ‘Alo Kito Manush Chai” (We want enlightened people).

Beside Alor Ishkool BSK have many programs of enlightenment such as  Nationwide Enrichment Programme (NEP), Developing  Reading Rabbit  (DRH),  Nationwide Mobile Library Programme (MLP), Publication Programme, The Mobile Book Fair.

BSK aslo has a library of  200,000 books on different disciplines on their buidlig situated at Banglamotor Dhaka.The Nationwide Enrichment Programme (NEP) is a program where secondary school students get listed books according to their age and class. 

In 2017-18 BSK reached 55,182 Schools and Madrasahs and enrolled 8.3 Million readers in 8 academic years,59% of readers were girls.Total 6.7 million readers participated in reader evaluation test during the programme period which accounts for 81% of total enrolled readers. BSK distributed 3.5 million programme-books for reading and 4.5 million reward-books among the better performing readers.

At present a total of 76 mobile library units are covering 3000 spots in around 400 Upazilas under the 64 districts of Bangladesh. The number of readers of this programme is now 300,000.

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Music Community & Fests of Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a country which is rich with its music. But from the early age there were no musical fest happened united together but recently during past 2-3 years the central music fest started. Where all of the participants came from different places of the country under one Umbrella.This centralization of music is making our musical community strong. Now we have a facebook group naming Bangladeshi Band Music Fan Community. Which was founded by our country’s respectable guitarist Dr. Saadi Muktafi. He started his music life openning a band along with his younger brother Avoid Rafa, the band name was Cral.

Besides the rock music there are several organization supporting and practicing the traditional and classical music. The well-known institutions are Bengal Foundation, Chayanot, Nazrul Institute, Bulbul lalitokola Academy,Bangladesh Academy of Fine Arts etc.

For the past 2-3 years there’s a lot of musical fest took place. The biggest fest is Bengal Classical Music Fest, then comes Folk fest , then Bamba which is rock project etc.

Bengal Classical Music Festival

Folk Fest

Bamba Rock Consert 

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Bangladeshi Rock Music

Bangladeshi rock music was originated in  Chittagong with Souls, which was formed in 1970. Distortion, electric and bass guitars and drums are used, sometimes accompanied by piano or other keyboard instruments. In the past, it was accompanied by saxophone, flute, violin and bass violin.

Short history: Azam Khan (Uchharon), a.k.a. the Legend, a.k.a. the Imaginative Composer, emerged during the 1970s. Happy Akhand's "Abar Alo Elo Je Shondha" was a popular song, and his premature death was a blow to the musicians he influenced. Akhand's contemporaries include the late Firoze Shahi, Ferdaus Wahid and Fakir Alamgir. Many old bands are still active, including Souls in 1970 , Feedback in 1976, Miles in 1978, Nagar Baul in1980 and Warfaze in 1984.

By the early ears of the 21st century, bands such as Aurthohin, Dalchhut, Shironamhin, Moruvumi, Black, Artcell, Poizon Green, Kronic, Reborn and Nemesis became active on the Bangladeshi music scene with the release of debut albums and songs. Newer bands emerging during this period, such as Stentorian, Arbovirus, Shunno , Ashes and Lalon, also became established. The era also saw the revival of the Chittagong rock-music scene. Although the city is considered the birthplace of Bangladeshi rock it declined during the 1990s, when most local musicians and bands began moving to Dhaka for more opportunity and better facilities. During the early 2010s, the Bangladesh Music Bands Association (BAMBA) and the Chittagong Musical Band Association (CMBA) began organising rock concerts in the city, which gave exposure to local underground bands. This resulted to the emergence of new rock bands in the city, such as Hemorrhage and Blunderware.

Warfaze

Souls

Artcell

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Traditional Music

Bangladesh’s music world is rich with its traditional music.These are practicing from very early to yet.The most common traditional musics are Rabindra sangeet, Nazrul sangeet, Lalon geeti, Folk song, Vaitiali song and regional songs etc.

Rabindra Sangeet: Rabindra Sangeet also known as Tagore Songs. This are songs written and composed by Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was a prolific composer with around 2,230 songs to his credit. The songs have distinctive characteristics in the music of Bengal, popular in India and Bangladesh. It is characterised by its distinctive rendition while singing which includes a significant amount of ornamentation like meend, murki, etc. and is filled with expressions of romanticism. The music is mostly based on Hindustani classical music and folk music of Bengal.

Nazrul Sangeet: Nazrul Geeti literally refers to the songs written and composed by Kazi Nazrul Islam, a Indian Bengali poet and national poet of Bangladesh and active revolutionary during the Indian Independence Movement. Nazrul Sangeet/Geeti incorporate revolutionary notions as well as more spiritual, philosophical and romantic themes.Nazrul wrote and composed nearly 4,000 songs gramophone records, which are widely popular in India and Bangladesh.

Lalon Geeti:  Basically Lalon Geeti is those songs which were written and co posed by Fakir Lalon Shah. He is also known as Lalon Sain, Lalon Shah, Lalon Fakir or Mahatma Lalon. He was a prominent Bengali philosopher, Baul saint, mystic, songwriter, social reformer and thinker. Considered an icon of Bengali culture, Lalon inspired and influenced many poets, social and religious thinkers including Rabindranath Tagore,Kazi Nazrul Islam,and Allen Ginsberg.

Regional Songs: Regional songs are the songs of local regional people of Bangladesh. Sung by their own dialect and tune . Sylhet, Chittagong, Mymensingh made our regional songs very rich. This songs are practiced from ages to ages . For example, modhu hoi khoi bis hawaila, lalpahari deshe chol etc etc.

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Bangladeshi Music

Bangladesh is a cosmopolitan region. From the earlier age many people from different places of the world came to this bengal delta region. That's why its an diverse area. So the music of area have a lot of variety or genre. There are Rabindra, Nazrul, Lalon, Folk,Modern,Rock, Metal etc. Rabindra, Nazrul, Lalon and folk are this area's influenced. And the rest are from western so they are western influenced.