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A three-day German-Bangla poetry recitation festival, which started on November 17 at the Goethe-Institut, ended on November 19.
   The festival, the second time of its kind, was jointly organised by Meghdut and the Goethe-Institut. The slogan of the festival was Shantir Sapakshe Kabita or poerty for peace and it was dedicated to the memories of late poet Shamsur Rahman.
   Along with the recitation artists of Muktadhara Sangskriti Charcha Kendra, Abriti Academy, Meghdut and Prama of Chittagong, teachers and students of the Goethe-Institut took part in the recitation.
   The German ambassador Frank Meyke inaugurated the festival in the evening of November 17 and the artists of Muktadhara and the teachers and students of the institute recited the original poems in Bangla and German. The translations of German poems were also recited at the festival.
   On the second day, eminent poet Al Mujahidi was present as chief guest. The artistes of Abriti Academy, Meghdut and Prama recited poems of noted German and Bengali poets including Rabindranath Tagore, Rainer Maria Rilke, Buddhadev Basu and Nirmalanda Goon.
   The concluding day of the festival, inaugurated by Belal Chowdhury, was participated by a good number of young and noted Bengali poets. The poets, Belal Chowdhury, Asad Chowdhury, Mahadev Saha, Abdul Mannan Syed, Samudra Gupta and others recited their own poems.
   About the festival, the chief organiser of Meghdut, Masud Mannan told this correspondent that they aim to strengthen
   the relation between two
   friendly nations.
   According to him, German poetry is well known to the poetry lovers of Bangladesh and many poems of German masters have been translated in Bangla.

As part of Chobi Mela IV, the photographs of noted Singaporean photographer Richard WJ Koh are being displayed at the gallery of the Goethe-Institut in Dhanmondi.
   Twelve photographs by Koh are on display, and the exhibition will remain open from 10:00am to 8pm till November 30.
   On Koh’s works, the organisers say that light has fascinated the photographer since childhood. It led him to photography which he now considers a mystical art where ‘one harvests light, which comes from Above’. One of his great joys is to be able to harvest the light anywhere on earth.
   Koh’s photographs on the dried remains of plants, including trunks and leaves, become lively and attractive due to his play of light on the images.

Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti’s dargah committee has decided to issue notice to actress Katrina Kaif for wearing a knee-length skirt inside the dargah premises.
   Filming a sequence for Namaste London, which featured Kaif wearing a knee-length skirt inside Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti’s dargah in Ajmer, over 140 km from here, had created uproar among ‘khadims’ (servers) and the shrine administration.
   A similar notice has been issued to actor Rishi Kapoor, director Vipul Shah and Babu Bhair Goshi, the shooting arranger for rolling the cameras without taking prior permission of the dargah authority. The notice reads that all the accused should feel sorry for their act or they would be sued in the court of law.
   ‘We have located the addresses of all the people except that of Katrina, which is being searched by the committee,’ Dargah Nazim Abdul Alim informed.