Arts

Colombo, September 25 (newsin.asia) The Guangxi Cultural Week being held  in Sri Lanka to mark the 60 th. anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Sri Lanka, got off to a colorful start here on Monday, with a program of songs, dances and acrobatics which kept the audience spell bound. The items chosen presented China’s cultural and...

Colombo, Aug 13 (newsin.asia) - The Future of Tourism Summit will be held in Sri Lanka on Sept 26, on the theme of Innovation, Technology and Authenticity. This year’s summit will feature a host of leaders in the international travel and tourism sphere. Sebastian Rassmann and Rene Massatti will be in Colombo sharing their insights at the Summit that will...

Colombo, Aug 13 (newsin.asia) -  Colombo's Choral Music lovers will be uniquely privileged to experience a week long festival of choral competitions, friendship concerts and gala celebration concerts when the Asia Pacific Choir Games and Grand Prix of Nations take over the city Oct 21 to Oct 28. This celebration with the arrival of thousands of international participants, chaperons and...

Lahore July 18 (Express Tribune):  Noting that “the world has become a global village”, the Lahore High Court (LHC) lifted on Tuesday a ban on the airing of Indian drama serials imposed by the broadcast media watchdog last year. Chief Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah passed the order after hearing arguments on a petition filed by a local media company praying...

By Meera Srinivasan/The Hindu Colombo, June 5: The Chitrasena dance school is located on one of Colombo’s busiest roads, but once you enter its premises, all you hear is exuberant drumbeats. On Saturday morning, the large thatch-roofed hall was brimming with children dressed in red and black. Seated at different spots, three generations of teachers from Sri Lanka’s first family...

By Azzam Khan/www.southasianmonitor.com Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet of Bangladesh, the pride of the Bengali nation, the revolutionary who stood up against the British colonialists, against religious hypocrisy, against class and caste discrimination, is now being used for all the wrong reasons. He is being embroiled in the exact kind of propaganda that he abhorred. Nazrul now lies buried...

Dhaka, April 27 (AFP): Kasem bin Abubakar was told nobody would buy his chaste romance novels about devout young Muslims finding love within the strict moral confines of Bangladeshi society. And yet his tales of lovers whispering sweet nothings sold millions in the 1980s and proved a huge hit among young girls from Bangladesh's rural, conservative heartland. Now his work...

Chennai, March 19 (TNIE): In a shocking development versatile singer S P Balasubrahmanyam in his Facebook post claimed that he had received a legal notice from music director Ilayaraaja's attorney for singing the songs composed by 'Maestro' Ilayaraja at various concerts. S P Balasubrahmanyam's Facebook post reads "Couple of days back, an Attorney representing Shri.Iliayaraaja, sent legal notices to me, Smt.Chithra,...

Bali March 11 (AFP): Bali, a Hindu majority island in Muslim Indonesia, has decided not to cover up its statues for Saudi Arabia’s King Salman who was holidaying in the Indonesian island with a large entourage. A Hindu pocket in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, Bali is known for its statues of deities and semi-naked women. "We're just going...

Colombo, March 6 (www.bdnews24.com): Sri Lanka’s earliest contact with the outside world was with Bengal since it is believed that the Sinhalese race was created after the arrival of Prince Vijaya of Bengal with his camp followers in 543 BC. In the 19 th. and early 20 th. Centuries, it was Bengal which stirred and influenced  nationalistic consciousness in the...