Links of interest to Bengalis

1. Bangla songs

• Houston Durgabari (they may have removed the Music Room temporarily) you have to try twice to get in; look for the link to music; very nice collection with a Play All feature)
• Verdant Dreams (many of the songs are remixes; with ads and irritating pop-ups)
• Calcuttaweb (awesome collection w/o the Play All feature); also film clips and Chitramala (works best with Netscape 7 and beyond)
• Sangeet Bhuvan (great collection of old bangla songs, with Play All feature; need to log in)
• Anandaroop’s music page (nice write ups on various artists and some links to music)
• The best selection of Hemanta and Manna songs (with Play All feature)
• Mediatimes (slightly disorganized but good collection with some surprises)
• Music India (vast collection with Play All feature; includes remixes though)
• Bangla 2000 (excellent collection with several uncommon songs in their “adhunik” section; need some bangla fonts installed)
• Smashhits (vast collection with Play All feature; includes remixes though)
• Good collection (when the music links are working)
• Ektara (opar bangla site with a decent collection)
• Gaan (small but good collection of slightly new (post 1990) songs)
• Viswayan (songs, sruti natok, …)
• Bangali Adda (decent collection with Play All feature)
• Kishore Kumar rabindrasangeet; Kishore bangla adhunik
• Bangla music (similar to the Mediatimes collection; with Play All feature)

2. Bangla movies online (great to watch when you are “meghla deene ekla…”; includes Saptapadi, Teen Bhubaner Paare)
3. Leaning Rabindrasangeet online
4. Salil Choudhury (a site to honor that great man; such painstaking work)
5. Tribute to the greats of Indian film and film music
6. Parabaas (the first bangla e-zine, think of it as Desh potrika online!)
7. Abasar (Information on law, health, science, environment and women's issues. Includes a directory of local and community services of Dhaka and Kolkata and recreational items. Need Bangla fonts)
8. Birds of Kolkata (birds of Kolkata city in their natural environment through images)
9. Kolkata Beckons (good recipes and a generally good source on everything related to Kolkata)
10. Virtual Kolkata

     10. Wallpaper (for your desktop) of famous bengali actors/actresses of yesteryears

Thursday, June 08, 2006