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Sonna Rele

New York, NY, March 8, 2013 (Washington Bangla Radio): Three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, actor and philanthropist NE-YO has signed singer/songwriter and burgeoning ingénue Sonna Rele to a recording contract with renowned music label Universal Motown. With intent to make the occasion memorable, NE-YO - also the Senior Vice President of Artist & Repertoire (A&R) at the recording shop - surprised Sonna by presenting her with the life-altering record deal onstage during his performance at MasterCard’s “Priceless Gig” show, held March 7 in London, England. NE-YO discovered Sonna, a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, while perusing her captivating 'MusicMonday' clips on her Facebook page.

NE-YO and Sonna Rele

On signing Sonna, NE-YO stated, “There is a quality about Sonna’s voice that lingers in your ears after she performs a song. Her musicianship, which caught my attention via her 'Music Monday' videos on Facebook, is refreshing and undeniably authentic.”

Mihir Chakraborty, Rajib Sur Roy, Debasish Mullick Chowdhury, Dheeraj Chowdhury, Mrinal Ghosh, Prasanta Daw inaugrating the exhibition

Kolkata, March 8, 2013 (Washington Bangla Radio): With the objective showcasing the brilliant works by the young artists of West Bengal, the ‘Colours’ group came up with their second group show of Paintings and Sculptures.  The exhibition was inaugurated by eminent personalities from the field of art including eminent painter Dheeraj Chowdhury, art critic Mrinal Ghosh, Professor Mihir Chakraborty, painter Rajib Sur Roy and Prasanta Daw. The curator of this exhibition was Debasish Mullick Chowdhury.

Debasish Mullick Chowdhury, Mrinal Ghosh, Rajib Sur Roy, Dheeraj Chowdhury, Prasanta Daw

This exhibition featured the works of seven artists from various parts of West Bengal. Debadeep Ghosh, Malay Jana, Pravat Kumar Manna, Sanjay Samanta, Shakti Das, Subrata Karmakar and Tushar Das are the artists who are showcasing their arts to the people. Subrata Karmakar was the only artist dealing with sculptures. All other artists showcased their paintings. Watch a slideshow of some of the wonderful paintings and sculpture from the exhibition.

Ustad Rashid Khan, Parambrata Chatterjee, Rudranil Ghosh, Neha Panda and others - Picture Courtesy: Official Facebook Page

The forthcoming Bengali film "Haoa Bodol" released it's music album on Feb 28 at a major shopping mall in south Kolkata.

Parambrata Chatterjee, Neha Panda and Rudranil Ghosh - Picture Courtesy: Official Facebook Page

Haoabadol is directed by Parambrata Chattopadhyay. The music director is Indradeep Dasgupta, who has composed music to lyrics penned by Angshuman and Prosen.

Listen to free samples and Download the Haoa Bodol Bengali film audio songs in MP3 format »

The track-list of the Hawa Bodol OST album is:

1. Din Khon Mapa Ache - Arijit Singh
2. Bhoy Dekhas Na Please - Sunidhi Chowhan
3. Mone Porle - Arijit Singh
4. Mor Bhabonare - Saptarshi Mukherjee, Sahana Bajpai
5. Bhoy Dekhas Na (The Agnee Version) - Mohan Kannan
6. Ghore Ferar Gaan - Vishal Dadhlani
7. Mor Bhabonare - Sahana Bajpei
8. Mor Bhabonare - Saptarshi Mukherjee
9. Bhoy Dekhas Na - Arijit Singh

Gargi Dutta Chowdhury, Manoj Gupta, Subhen Chatterjee, Rupam Sarmah, Anjan Sinha, Papiya Adhikari

Rupam Sharmah with Guinness World Record

Kolkata, March 6, 2013 (Washington Bangla Radio): Rupam Sarmah and his team of 500 musicians with their 315 kinds of musical instruments created a new Guinness World Record in the category of “Most number of unique instruments used in a musical composition”. The group performed for thirty-two minutes and broke the earlier record by a Japanese group. which had performed with 181 instruments for a seven-minute Japanese song.

To popularize the benefits of scientific knowledge, every year 28th February is celebrated all over India as National Science Day – NSD to mark the discovery of Nobel Prize winning Raman Effect by the great Indian Physicist Sir C. V. Raman in 1928 on same day. Raman Effect is a phenomenon in spectroscopy discovered by the eminent physicist while working in the laboratory of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of science - IACS, Kolkata. It’s indeed a matter of Pride that Chandrasekara Venkata Raman popularly known as CV Raman was the first Indian, Asian and non white to win the coveted Nobel Prize.