Arts, Music & Culture

Arts, Music & Culture

Here, I publish articles on arts, music, and culture.


Diwali is a Symbol of Enlightenment

13 Nov 2023 1 minute read 5 comments Debesh Choudhury

What is Diwali? Diwali is not just a festival of lights and crackers. Diwali is a token activity of enlightenment of the human soul. Source   Diwali is a symbol of enlightenment. Diwali is a symbol of enlightenment, to free our minds from all sor...

Vintage Podcast with Vivien Leigh

6 Nov 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury

Have you watched any movie of Vivien Leigh? You may ask why Vivien Leigh? I watched a very few of her movies. Today, I discovered an interview with Vivien Leigh recorded in the late 1950s. It was probably telecast over the television in 1958 and...

Music Teaching in Afghanistan

26 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury

Music in Afghanistan, yes. A Sitar maestro couple from Bengal, India, lived in Kabul and taught classical music to youngsters in Afghanistan at the National Institute of Music Kabul in 2017. Video Source Watch how Sitar exponents Abhishek Adhikary...

Expert Piano Player Italian Kid

23 Sep 2023 1 minute read 6 comments Debesh Choudhury

Today, I discovered a video of a 5-year-old kid playing piano. Is he performing the Mozart Piano Sonata number 16? Enjoy 5-year-old Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani performing Mozart's Piano Sonata. Source I discovered the video on Twitter = X. I reposte...

What an Expert Piano Player!

18 Aug 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Debesh Choudhury

Today, I saw an amazing piano-playing video. I saw the video on LinkedIn shared without any reference to the source. So, I don't know the name of the piano player. But I couldn't stop sharing it on Odysee and here. If anybody happens to know about th...

Music of CARO Emerald

21 Mar 2023 2 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury

Who doesn't like music? Can we find anybody in this world who dislikes music? Maybe yes. I am not sure. On the other hand, I have come through innumerable people who very much like music. I admit that music and education are my easy turn-ons....

A Film of Small People

6 Apr 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury

Have you ever met a small person? I mean, have you got an encounter with a dwarf person? In our locality, I see a dwarf person almost every day. His height is hardly two and a half feet. He works in a roadside snacks shop. He is so energetic. I can n...

Music is the Language of Peace: Yohani Sings

25 Mar 2022 4 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury

Can you find anybody who doesn't like listening to music? Singing is so natural. If you have a vocal cord and you can produce vocal sounds, you can try singing. I know some of us can't produce audible sound due to problems in the vocal cords. Some pe...

Why Can’t Women be Priests?

5 Sep 2021 4 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury

Society doesn’t support women in the roles of priests I watched a movie recently. It is a Bengali move, “Brahma Janen Gopon Kommoti.” The story is about a girl who breaks the male domination to become a priest for Hindu religious and social rituals,...

My Most Favourite Japanese Song

4 Sep 2021 4 minute read 0 comments Debesh Choudhury

When I visited Japan for a research study in 2000, I never knew that a famous Bangla song was adapted from a famous Japanese song by Kyu Sakamoto. I was mesmerized when people started singing a song, the starting music I knew very well. The song is f...