Privileged to meet Padma Vibhushan, Maharaja @drkaransingh in Delhi.
A man of exceptional letters, he recounted how his esteemed father, Maharaja Hari Singh, sent him to @doon_school departing from tradition; how he joined politics; how he witnessed birth of #Bangladesh (1971). A man whose life was shrouded with regality yet who remains so firmly resolved to champion empathy, harmony, values.
Shared his reflections on embedding and advancing 🇧🇩🇮🇳 ties.
Truly a rarity to listen to his world views spanning nearly one century, including nearly six decades in public life and eventually in spirituality.
@IIC_Delhi@iccr_hq@rajya_sabha
#politics #people #India #jammukashmir
নোবেলজয়ী বিশ্বকবি রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর তাঁর সৃষ্টির আলো ছড়িয়েছেন #ভারত ও #বাংলাদেশের হৃদয়ে।
সাহিত্যের ঊর্ধ্বে যেয়ে, তিনি নিজ্ দেশ ও দেশের মানুষের গণ্ডি ছাড়িয়ে, প্রকৃতি ও মানবতার প্রতি সহানুভূতিকে অমর করে গেছেন।
তাঁর অবিনশ্বর কীর্তি বাংলাদেশের ভবিষ্যৎ প্রজন্মের কাছে জাতি হিসেবে আমাদের পরিচয়কে সমুন্নত রাখবে।
তাঁর প্রতি আমাদের (@bdhc_delhi) শ্রদ্ধাঞ্জলি।
#RabindranathTagore #Literature #Bangladesh #India
My dear RAGHU bhai (@RaghuRai1), I won't ever hear your heartfelt voice again over phone, greeting me in immaculate Urdu and filling void with your signature warmth!
Last (2025) April, within two weeks of joining in Delhi, a call comes to me from him, "Reyaz bhai, I dare address you as 'bhai', hope you would grant me that allowance...". He sends his book, BIRTH OF A NATION, thru his daughter (based on all rare negatives of 1971 War that he misplaced in the pile of his archive).
He was one of my childhood heroes. Many #youth who may not know: in August 1971, a 29-year-old photo-journalist in @TheStatesmanLtd, Raghu Rai, entered #Bangladesh to cover 🇧🇩Liberation War. He shared with me accounts of intense suffering, agony and humiliation of #people that he witnessed in battlefield - villages - Refugee Camps. Raghu bhai narrated to me a chilling account of an ambush when he kept clicking even braving splinters!
What he saw on the ground reminded him of his childhood when his family had to cross over to India (1947) braving so much of uncertainties. He was barely 5, then.
In 1972, 🇮🇳 Govt. awarded a young Raghu Rai #PadmaShri for his epochal photography on 🇧🇩War.
Since April '25, Raghu bhai embraced me just as a younger brother. A giant of man in the world of #photography #art #aesthetics, each time I would call him, he would greet me on phone almost like hugging me. Words just won't suffice.
Raghu bhai, in eight decades, you touched so many souls, across lands. You didn't belong just to #India but to the world.
Adieu, Raghu bhai. RIP.
@IndiaToday
In celebrating #bengalinewyear in #India, team @bdhc_delhi presented today an authentic mix of traditional #food (spread of ভর্তা & পিঠা) from #Bangladesh to 🇮🇳friends.
Food was blended with cultural performances by 🇧🇩🇮🇳 student musicians & Embassy family members. Friends from West Bengal - Bihar - Orissa even joined to showcase their popular food!
As Tamils, Assamese, Punjabis and others celebrate their new years, we got all under one roof - to underline how #people across boundaries interact seamlessly and #culture #music blend smoothly, blurring lines and distinctions.
In a graceful and profound commemoration, @bdhc_delhi colleagues and I joined men | women in uniform & diplomats for #ANZACDay Dawn Service at Delhi War Cemetery.
It's to honour courage | sacrifice of those who laid their lives in Gallipoli (1915) during WWI and in battlefields since.
Thanks Amb Philip Green (@AusHCIndia) for drawing us together, to stand in solemn reflection and salute unknown men | women who did their most to secure us in peace and harmony.
#LestWeForget #Australia #NewZealand
ঝরে যাক পুরনো দিনের ভার,
নতুন আলোয় ছুঁয়ে যাক মন।
রঙ, সুর আর আলপনায়
জন্ম নিক নতুন অনুভব।
শুভ #বাংলা নববর্ষ ১৪৩৩।
���ीते हुए समय का बोझ धीरे-धीरे मिट जाए,
और नई रोशनी धीरे से दिल को छू ले।
रंगों, संगीत और अल्पना की छुअन में
एक नई भावना जन्म ले।
शुभ बंगाली नव वर्ष 1433।
As Bengali-speaking women | men | children across #Bangladesh | #India welcome the new Bangla (1433) Year, millions across India immerse in similar celebrations.
We join all in #Punjab (Baisakhi), #Haryana (Baisakhi), #TamilNadu (Puthandu), #Kerala (Vishu), #Assam (Bohag Bihu/Rongali Bihu), #Odisha (Pana Sankranti/Maha Bishuba Sankranti), #Manipur (Sajibu Cheiraoba), Tripura (Boisu/Bwisu), #Bihar (Jur Sital/Maithil New Year), #Arunachal (Sangken)...
ఉగాది శుభాకాంక్షలు
ಯುಗಾದಿ ಹಬ್ಬದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು
புத்தாண்டு வாழ்த்துக்கள்
വിഷു ആശംസകൾ
ৰঙালী বিহুৰ শুভেচ্ছা
ਬੈਸਾਖੀ ਦੀਆਂ ਵਧਾਈਆਂ
ꯆꯩꯔ��ꯎꯕ ꯌꯥꯏꯐꯔꯦ
#Culture #Festival #Heritage
#बांग्लादेश में कई पीढ़ियों ने पद्म विभूषण, #आशाभोसले जी (92) के जाने का गहरा दुख जताया है। RIP.
भले ही वह #भारत से थीं, लेकिन सीमाओं के पार लाखों लोग उनके दीवाने हैं।
वह हमारे 🇧🇩यादों में हमेशा रहेंगी, उनके 12,000+ अमर गानों🎶 की वजह से, और मेरे लिए तो #बॉलीवुड#हिंदी#चलचित्र उमरावजान और सौदागर में मेरे पसंदीदा गानों की वजह से।
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Generations across #Bangladesh deeply mourn the departure of 🇮🇳Padma Vibhushan, #AshaBhosle ji (92). RIP.
While she hails from #India, millions beyond borders own her.
She ‘ll remain etched in our 🇧🇩memory thanks to 12,000+ of her immortal songs🎶, to me indeed for my favourite in #Bollywood #Hindi #film UMRAAO JAAN and SAUDAGAR.
এছাড়াও #বাংলা গান....
...মনে পড়ে রুবি রায় কবিতায় তোমাকে. একদিন কত করে ডেকেছি
আজ হায় রুবি রায় ডেকে বল আমাকে তোমাকে কোথায় যেন দেখেছি...
...চিরদিনই তুমি যে আমার
যুগে যুগে আমি তোমারই
চিরদিনই তুমি যে আমার
যুগে যুগে আমি তোমারই
আমি আছি সেই যে তোমার
তুমি আছো সেই আমারই!..
@MEAIndia
🇧🇩Foreign Minister, HE Dr Khalilur Rahman, articulated 🇧🇩 perspectives | approach at Ninth Indian Ocean Conference in Mauritius, to accomplish | secure shared prosperity, for all, indeed to ensure freedom of navigation in blue waters of Indian Ocean.
As multilateralism is so much under stress, stressed that 'collective action' merits to be rediscovered. All need to re-think Indian Ocean governance.
Urged Dr @rammadhav_ | @indfoundation to take lead in articulating "a shared cooperative vision" for Indian Ocean countries.
For RECORD, pl see the attached txt👇🏼
#India #Bangladesh #BayofBengal
@MEAIndia@BDMOFA
56th 🇧🇩NATIONAL | INDEPENDENCE DAY celebrated in Delhi on 26th March evening, was an evening
of remembrance,
of color,
manifesting cuisine | culture.
Converging 'friends of Bangladesh in India' from as diverse as politics | society | business | media | academia | think tanks | culture.
To remember the past.
To reflect on the future.
Pledging shared prosperity,
in shared interests.
#Bangladesh #India #People #Politics #Diplomacy #Harmony #Culture #Heritage
@MEAIndia@BDMOFA
In hrs, this evening, ace 🇧🇩musicians to render 🇧🇩🇮🇳 NATIONAL ANTHEMS - as we get set to celebrate 56th 🇧🇩NATIONAL | INDEPENDENCE DAY in Delhi.
A modest mark of friendship & fraternity, between #Bangladesh and #India...
to walk in shared interests,
to accomplish shared prosperity.
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कुछ ही घंटों में, आज शाम, बांग्लादेश के जाने-माने संगीतकार बांग्लादेश और भारत के राष्ट्रगान प्रस्तुत करेंगे—क्योंकि हम दिल्ली में 56वां बांग्लादेश राष्ट्रीय | स्वतंत्रता दिवस मनाने की तैयारी कर रहे हैं।
बांग्लादेश और भारत के बीच दोस्ती और भाईचारे का एक विनम्र प्रतीक...
साझा हितों की राह पर चलने के लिए,
साझा समृद्धि हासिल करने के लिए।
#People #Freedom #Bangladesh1971 #1971War #peace #harmony
In joy - sombre remembrance - prospecting into the future, celebrated 56th 🇧🇩National | Independence Day with #music#cuisine#culture in Delhi.
Hon. MoS | @MEAIndia, @KVSinghMPGonda, as Chief Guest of the Ceremony, underlined #India's expectations for deeper friendship | robust partnership with #Bangladesh.
@shomebasu displayed 20 spontaneous black & white clicks of life in bazaars-streets-riverside, captured during his sojourn.
My Remarks, as attached👇🏼.
Thanks all distinguished friends from #politics thru #media for joining us at @bdhc_delhi.
#Bangladesh1971 #1971War #Genocide
সংযম সাধনা শেষে,
প্রশান্তি হাসি যখন আকাশে ভাসে,
উৎসবে মুখরিত হয় সব,
যদি প্রিয়জন ঘরে ফিরে আসে।
সব ভেদাভেদ দূরে ঠেলে কোলাকুলি,
বাজে শিশুদের প্রাণভরা মধু-কাকলি।
সবাইকে ঈদুল ফিতরের মিষ্টি শুভেচ্ছা।
#ঈদ মুবারক।
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End of days of patience, devotion, and grace,
The smiling new moon lits up the sky.
And joy engulfs hearts all around,
When loved ones return with warmth to share—
All differences fade as we hug with glee,
While children’s sweet laughter flows wild and free.
Wishing everyone a joyous #Eidlfitr day,
#EidMubarak.
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सबर और इबादत की महीनों के बाद,
रोशन करे आसमान आज मुस्कुराता नया चाँद।
जब हर दिल में खुशियाँ जगमगाती हैं,
और अपने घर लौटकर अपनापन लाती हैं—
सारे फ़ासले मिटते, गले मिलते हम,
बच्चों की मीठी ���ँसी गूँजे हर दम।
आप सभी को ईद-उल-फ़ितर की ढेरों खुशियाँ,
#ईद मुबारक।
#Harmony #Religion #Festival #Islam #Bangladesh #India
Its a privilege to call on 🇮🇳Hon. Commerce & Industry Minister (@CimGOI), HE @PiyushGoyal, in Delhi - a leader with exceptional wisdom, passion and foresight. He shared his vision of deepening economic partnership. Discussed ways to advance wider 🇧🇩🇮🇳 economic partnership aside addressing prevalent #trade-related issues to driven by shared benefits for both people.
At the end, he was struck learning about 🇧🇩 Jamdani weaving heritage!
@DoC_GoI #Bangladesh #India
Privileged to pay Courtesy Call on to 🇮🇳 EAM and affirmed #Bangladesh's readiness to walk | work with #India, together, in shared interests and for shared benefits.