ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio USA

Germantown, Maryland, Feb 10, 2011 (Washington Bangla Radio) Sanchalika Acharyya has performed more than 70 stage shows of dance, recitation and sruti natok (Bengali audio drama). She counts Kathak dancing, Recitation and Gardening among her varied interests. Sanchalika is a District-level champion in recitation for three consecutive years, 1996, 1997 and 1998, at the Chatra Yuva Utsav.

Listen to Bangla Kobita Abritti by Sanchalika.

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To celebrate Sharodiya Durga Puja 2010, Bratati Paul presents a couple of new audio recitations of poems she wrote herself.  The first is titled Sharadiya and the second, Thokbaaj.

Listen to Brototi's recitation online.

My homage to Kobiguru on his 150th birth centenary this year - 'Duhsamay' from his "Kalpana" selection of poems.

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Poet-songwriter-singer-elocutionist ILA ROY is perhaps not known to you, but after a few minutes you may get a idea of who she his through her words.

Ila Roy was born to Promila and Subodh Chandra Roy  and lives in Duttapukur, a little village in West Bengal, India. . She considers herself a simple lady, a patriotic Indian, and proud of her country's heritage of great personalities of the stature of Rabindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda.

Ila says, "Mother is the most favorite word in my world." Unfortunately, Ila lost her mother in 2007, and remembers telling her mother "Bhalo Theko" (take care) just after she embarked on her final journey.  Ila's first book of poems, titled "Bhalo Theko", dedicated to her mother, was published in 2008.

After her first book, Ila has been busy writing poems which are regularly published in many Bengali Little Magazines, including Prometheus-er Pothe, Samajdarpon, Annoman, Nirbed, Choitali, etc.

Ila has a graduate degree from Calcutta University and a Masters degree from Rabindra Bharati  University. She has hosted Radio shows on All India Radio (Akashvani) from 2003 to 2007.

Ila says, "I love nature and want to help the poor and the solitary people because I think I am born for others."

Listen to recitation by Ila Roy of her own poems . Washington Bangla Radio is also broadcasting these recordings on our live Radio channel online.

PARAMITA PALIT is a molecular biologist by profession. Paramita has an inborn creativity from the age of three years when she performed first time on stage and received an award. A poet, elocutionist, dancer - all together a multifacet personality, Paramita feels herself most comfortable as an anchor. She has won various awards in inter-state, inter-college and inter-university competetions in debate, extempore and recitation. She has trained herself through the workshops conducted by famous group thetre of Kolkata Nandikar and has successfully performed in Nandikar Jatiya Natyamela as a child artist. Being a post doctoral student in molecular biology in NRCPB, New Delhi , she spends most of her time in her research work. She has published her research work in a number of scientific journals of international repute. In spite of that her passion drives her to spend her leisure time with poetry.

Paramita has anchored a number of programs in New Delhi too. Here is a small bouque of her selected recitation mostly of Rabindranath Tagore:

• CAMELLIA - A famous creation of Rabindranath Tagore that portrays the silent love of a Bengali boy..
• SADHARAN MEYE a story of a common Bengali girl next door whom the poet made immortal by beautifully painting her love and agony in this poem. 

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