Roopam Podcast

"For a thousand years I have roamed the paths of this earth..."

Experience Jibanananda Das’s timeless masterpiece Bonolota Sen, rendered in a quiet, moody, and deeply immersive audio style. An exploration of solitude, memory, and timeless beauty.

Genre / Mood: Spoken Word / Classical Bengali Literature / Dark Aesthetic Produced by Roopam Chowdhury

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Poem : Tomaro Ki Ekla Laage

Poet : Salma Sultana

Recitation: Roopam Chowdhury

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After a two-year hiatus, Roopam Chowdhury returns to the microphone with a fierce, uncompromising rendition of Sukanta Bhattacharya’s iconic poetic anthem, "Aatharo Bachhar Boyesh" (আঠারো বছর বয়স).

A poem of unyielding youth, righteous defiance, and breaking through institutional stagnation, this piece sets the stage for a new wave of cultural and intellectual media critique on the channel.

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Poem: Sukanta Bhattacharya

Recitation & Production: Roopam Chowdhury

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Rahul Sen is an academic researcher specialising in the field of international economics focusing on trade policy and economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region. His research has contributed to the ex-ante and ex-post evaluation of economic integration initiatives involving New Zealand’s major trading partners such as Australia, China, the Association of Southeast Asian Member Nations (ASEAN) and India. It has been published in both high-ranking academic journal outlets, as well as those that have a more applied focus and target the non-academic audience. Rahul Sen was previously a Research Fellow with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore prior to joining AUT

Pavitra Roy is an Electrical & Electronic engineer by profession, a business consultant, and a holistic wellness entrepreneur. He is also a global coach/for Pranic Applications & Cosmic Abundance for the past many years, Pavitra has been traveling internationally to conduct variousworkshops, Info talks, group meditation, healing campsand retreats.

He has initiated and taught non-touch healing techniques that he learned directly from enlightened spiritual scientists from grandmasters Choa Kok Sui, Dr. Hazel Wardha, Master Martin Nazareth to name a few. He has been successfully training and initiating attitudinally ready students across every faith, community, and ethnicity to treat specific health issues. He is currently president of NZ PHF Inc. He conducts regular meditation classes on behalf of the foundation for free healing and group meditation for the general well-being of people in Auckland. He has also started group meditation in different countries e.g. India, New Zealand, and Japan.

Shekhar Gomes is an highly acclaimed singer and musician in Auckland who is originally from Bangladesh. He was honored by The Pope in 1977 for the sing ‘Shorger Shiri’ which is globally popular till date. Now a retired teacher, he is well travelled and focusses fully on his music and apart from New Zealand, he has performed to packed audiences in Australia, USA and Canada.

In this podcast, he talks about his overall journey with a huge emphasis on the importance of staying true to the art as a musician and his views on Bengali music as a whole and his love for stalwarts like Shamal Mitra and Hemanta Mukhopadhyay. At present, he is gearing up for his upcoming shows in the 2024/25 season in New Zealand, Australia and America as he also prepares for an upcoming album which will focus on Rabindrasangeet. He also talks about his son Swapnil who is a member of the band Yoko-Zuna.

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Amit Sengupta is one of the most well-known Bengali origin artist in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a singer, music teacher and composer. He is also the founder of Md Rafi Academy of Music NZ and the man behind the popular live music event 'Old is Gold'. He boasts of a wide body of work in Bengali and Hindi and also has been actively associated with politics. In this episode, he talks about his journey in and outside NZ and his interactions with legends like Satyajit Ray, Pt Ravi Shankar and also touches on his future endeavors

Amit Sengupta in NZ Media:

Indian Newslink:

https://indiannewslink.co.nz/music-masters-do-not-sing-final-notes/

https://indiannewslink.co.nz/memories-and-melodies-of-mohammed-rafi-to-stir-you/

Stuff NZ:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/8425770/Sitar-maestro-to-be-honoured

Old is Gold 5 snippet ('Kahin Ek Naazuk Si Ladki' originally by Md Rafi):

https://youtu.be/RHEGeZCVxnI?si=7K2nc3urRsUxolFM

Roopam is a filmmaker and musician with past experience as a radio broadcaster who has worked in radio stations like Aamar 106.2 FM (Kolkata), Sunrise Radio (London) and Humm FM (Auckland)

The Roopam Podcast is New Zealand's first Bengali podcast and Probasee Bangali series is aimed at showcasing Bengali expats in New Zealand

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