https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcnPmlqRXzc The title means, roughly, everyone asks me what group I belong to, this world. Lalon was a Bengali mystic, and the second greatest Bengali composer of music after Rabindranath. Regardless of all that, this song slaps.
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কার ভাবে নদে এসে (Kar Bhabe Nade Ese) by নির্মলেন্দু চৌধুরী (Nirmalendu Chowdhury)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWdLn9uK77g Song title translates as "Who knows to come to the river?
এই রাত তোমার আমার | This Night, Yours & Mine by Hemanta Mukherjee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_DLXmzoaoE A classic Bengali song.
At the Maacher Bazaar, Fish For Life
"The daughters are to stay at home. The wife, more so. The dead are never accompanied to the cremation grounds by women. We aren’t allowed. Not in our custom.And so, we went to the cremation grounds — Ma and her daughters, to cremate our father, her husband. I took Ma’s hand and guided her from … Continue reading At the Maacher Bazaar, Fish For Life
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