ওয়াশিংটন বাংলা রেডিও Washington Bangla Radio

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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Pinaki was awarded ABRITTI RATNA (2004) in a function at Bangla Academy by Padmashree Debdulal Bandopadhyay on behalf of Samantaral for his contribution in recitation and his youthfulness in performance (‘tarunyo r abrittir hridoye hridoy joge korechhen….’). The function was covered by DD News and other media.

His audio album DECEMBER 6 was released by Washington Bangla Radio partner Music 2000. Listen to audio clips online from his Bengali recitation album December 6.

Creative writer, painter and elocutionist Brototi Paul won her first award in a recitation competition at age 3. Since then, she has won numerous awards in elocution at local and regional levels.  Her first book ASWAD, a book of poems, and her second book ATO TUKU ASHA – a novel, were inaugurated at the Kolkata International Book Fair in 2004 and 2005. Listen to Brototi's recitation of her own poems.

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