Please send us your comments and feedback regarding the Bangla Proshar Committee, our site or any pertinent issue by either sending us an e-mail or by fiiling out the feed back form.

Here is a selection of feedback from what we've received so far that we deem useful for the wider community.

29/06/2005 Dear friends, In order to bring the precious creations of Tagore and of Visva-Bharati to the world the university has taken up an ambitious E-Commerce initiatives in association with Brainware, the fastest growing IT company in Eastern India. Under this project, Visva-Bharati will make its premier publications, CDs and reproduction of paintings available for sale through an e-commerce portal developed by Brainware and hosted at Brainware’s website (www.brainware-india.com). The portal wiil be linked to Visva-Bharati’s official website www.visva-bharati.ac.in to facilitate access. The project aims at giving an easy and better access to Visva-Bharati’s wide range of critically acclaimed products to national as well as international buyers. Initially, only books published by Visva-Bharati will be made available through the online store. Now anybody can collect timeless classics like, Rabindra Rachanabali, Sanchaita, Galpaguchha, Geetabitan, Geetanjali or discerning works like Rabindra Jivani (by Prabhat Kumar Mookhopadhyaya), The God of R. N. Tagore (by Jose Chunkapura) anywhere anytime as they feel. Later, the product catalogue will be upgraded to include paintings, sculptures, CDs, animated films and even personalised gift items specially designed by Visva-Bharati! In all, the online store will be a cultural revelation of sorts to anyone who accesses the site. On the technical front, the web site is easily navigable with all the upgraded technologies one expects at a premier e-commerce portal. Buyers are able to select products of their choice from the online catalogue and add them to a virtual shopping cart. After checking out, they have to make online payments through the payment gateway integrated with the portal that accepts both credit card and net banking payments. The products are then delivered to the buyers through courier. We invite everyone with interest in Tagore and Visva-Bharati to visit the above-mentioned web sites and enjoy an easy and safe buying experience. Thank you. Prof. Sujit Basu Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati Santiniketan PIN – 731235, West Bengal, India

10/06/2005 I am writing to see if you can help me find a language school to learn Bengali in Sydney. I am marrying into a Bengali family and would like to learn to be able to speak to my in-laws so any help would be great as I have looked everywhere.. Thankyou, Amy Hunt Parramatta, NSW

10/06/2005 Do you know of any classes to learn Bangla for adults? I have tried to learn from the books though think having an actual class would help. Regards, Lorelle Gibson Sydney, NSW

06/06/2005 Hello, I am a year 12 student and I was really interested doing Bengali for my HSC as a Language Other Than English (LOTE) subject but due to Bangla not yet being recognized by the NSW Board of Studies I couldn't do so. I would like to help children learn Bangla. Please contact if any help is required. Aditi <- Send Aditi an e-mail Quakers Hill, NSW

02/05/2005 I would appreciate if you could inform me of your activities on occasions. Many thanks Abdul Quader Thanks for your email. Currently Bangla Prosar Committee does not have any subscription-based email newsletters (though we are thinking of one). So checking the site periodically is the only solution. - Webmaster

17/04/2005 Dear Editor, Sometimes I visit this site to get more information about the activities and progression of Bengali community in Australia, where I belong to. I highly appreciated your service to establish Bangla in every possible sphere. Please take my homage for your work first. This mail is about to show you something I felt incomplete in this site. I strongly believe we all should encourage each and every initiative taken by the people of our community. You put some address and listings of radio stations in Bangla at Sydney. I found this helpful for sure. But I realized you haven't put the name of another Bangla radio station operated from Sydney - RUPOSHI BANGLA BETAR. They broadcast their program on every Saturday 1-3 pm on 89.7 FM. I guess you missed this to put up. I hope, in your next update, you would add this in your site. Again thanks for your effort for Bangla. Thanking you. Kamrul Ahmed Marrickville, NSW-2204 Sorry about the omission. It was inadvertent. Has been put on the right panel. Thanks. - Webmaster

17/04/2005 Dear Editor, Sometimes I visit this site to get more information about the activities and progression of Bengali community in Australia, where I belong to. I highly appreciated your service to establish Bangla in every possible sphere. Please take my homage for your work first. This mail is about to show you something I felt incomplete in this site. I strongly believe we all should encourage each and every initiative taken by the people of our community. You put some address and listings of radio stations in Bangla at Sydney. I found this helpful for sure. But I realized you haven't put the name of another Bangla radio station operated from Sydney - RUPOSHI BANGLA BETAR. They broadcast their program on every Saturday 1-3 pm on 89.7 FM. I guess you missed this to put up. I hope, in your next update, you would add this in your site. Again thanks for your effort for Bangla. Thanking you. Kamrul Ahmed Marrickville, NSW-2204 Sorry about the omission. It was inadvertent. Has been put on the right panel. Thanks. - Webmaster

29/03/2005 It's a fine site.. Mamun Khan Samungli Road Quetta

27/03/2005 Dear Madam/Sir, I like this site very much , can I get job there in your place? I am a Bengali Muslim from Kolkata. If anyone have any suggestions for me please email me mhmmdsadique@yahoo.com. Thanking you, Md Sadique <- Send Sadique an e-mail 21, Jannagar Road Kolkata # 009339763389 Thanks for your email. Unfortunately, Bangla Prosar Committee is a voluntary organisation that does not employ any paid personnel. So we cannot be of any help to you in this regard. - Webmaster

18/03/2005 I really liked this site and am interested to know more about your activities. I am a journalist of a Bengali newspaper of West Bengal, India. I am 27 yrs old. My ancestral home was in Chattagram, Bangladesh. So I always have an interest about things happenning in Bangladesh. Rajarshi Dutta Gupta A/123, Baghajatin, po: Regent Estate Kolkata-700092 Thank you very much for your feedback. We are in Sydney, Australia and we work for all Bangla speaking people of the world. So feel free to participate if you'd like to. - Webmaster

15/03/2005 Dear Banglaproshar, I am Sabbir,from Japan... I am a big fan of this web site ... Whenever I am free, I listen to the songs of Kaderi Kibria and Sabiha Mahbub... I just get nostalgic listening to those wonderful songs .. since my childhood, I am a huge fan of Sabiha Mahbub.. I had one of her wonderful albums "Nijere haraye khuji".. unfortunately,somebody stole it.. then I searched for this album everywhere in Bangladesh... but I was disappointed ... after I came to Japan, I searched for Sabiha Mahbub, I got your site ... I request you to send me Sabiha Mahbub's address and phone number, if you have or if you can manage it... you also please let me know, if any of you have this album in your collection .. I will be very grateful, if you help me to get the album of Sabiha Mahbub... I look forward to your kind cooperation .. yours sincierly Sabbir Japan

15/03/2005 Akkhor Bangla Software is Unicode supported free Bangla software. Anyone can write Bangla easily with this software. It has phonetic Bangla writing support, customizable keyboard Bangla calendar and a lot of other features. This software won several awards in Bangladesh. I have made this software free to encourage Bangla computing and give away all confusion to use Bangla in computer.. I would like to help this committee as it has also same type of goal. I hope your committee can also help me to make this software more popular to NRBs. It will really be great if you could inform the non-resident-Bangladeshi people to use this software to write in Bangla. Please give me valuable suggestions to improve this software to increase Bangla computing. I am doing another project which is an Interactive Bangla Learning Software. My main target audience of this software are foreigners interested to learn Bangla and kids. As I know there is no good software to that serves this purpose I decided to make this one. What is the benefit if I did these projects but people who are keenly interested to use this softwares don't know about this? Thanks, Anwarus Salam Hopefully more people will come to know about it from our site. Thanks. -Webmaster

15/03/2005 Dear Brother, I would sincerely appreciate if you could provide me the approx. figure of Bangladeshi & Bengali (from West Bengal) population in NSW as well as in Australia. If you are unable to find out the exact figure. That's fine. But I would greatly appreciate if you could direct me to a reliable source to discover - as it is very important for my research project. As a matter of fact I have failed to collect this piece of information from any sources. I therefore would appreciate your kind assistance in this regard. I look forward to your prompt response. All the best and regards, Reaz Hyder <- Send Ehsan an e-mail Sydney Australia. Thanks for your email but unfortunately, I do not know the exact answer to your question. If anybody knows the answer please let Reaz know. - Webmaster

14/02/2005 Dear Webmaster Would you please put a link to Bangla School of Canberra from your website? Thanks for your nice effort. But missing some important updates. The news of Bangla being included in LOTE has not been posted yet. Tanvir Canberra Australia Thanks for the info, have put it on the rightpanel of the site. The news of Bangla being included in LOTE that you've heard is not really correct. Please read the Proshar Committee's press release about this on the homepage or on the About BPC page of the site. - Webmaster

06/02/2005 Hi It is a wonderful site for local community. Please visit my site at http://www.bangladeshilivingabroad.com and pass this site link to every Bangladeshi around the globe to help building this database. Please also let me know if you can put a link of my site at your page. Thanks Mir Delwar Hossain Toronto, Canada

02/02/2005 Akkhor Bangla Software is unicode supported free bangla software. We would appreciate it if you could add a link to www.akkhorbangla.com from your website. Anwarus Salam Dhaka, Bangladesh

28/01/2005 Help! Im looking for Bengali/Bangla classes for adults, I'm having no luck what so ever. I would realy like to learn. Can you please recommend someone or some institution that could help me please? Meegan Cannot readily think of an institution that teaches Bangla to adults in Australia. I'm afraid, probably there is none. There are some links to material on learning Bangla on the home page of the site, if that's of any help. Do not know the situation with individual teachers though. If there are any teachers who teach Bangla to adults, please let us know about you. - Webmaster

24/01/2005 Could you inform me contact details to subscribe to Bengali magazines published from India/Bangladesh that is available through Australia based dealers? Thanks Anjan Das Have you tried the Bangladeshi and/or Indian groceries? Also, dealers, if there are any, can contact Anjan directly if they want to. - Webmaster

11/12/2004 Hi This is Ehsan from Bangladesh. I was in Australia and studied Bachelor in IT and came back to Bangladesh and now working as Software Engineer in a USA Based software company. My company is seeking for IT Pros who studied in Australia, Canada, UK and USA to join our Open Source, GIS or Windows Application department. If you could pass on my email address to people studied in Software Development (Web Application - PHP & MySQL, GIS Application or Desktop Application) and have them send me their CV it will be a great co-operation. I know there are many people who are looking for right opportunity in Bangladesh to come back. I can assure this is one of the best opportunity that one can have here in Bangladesh. Thanks and keep up the good work with the web site. Cheers Ehsan <- Send Ehsan an e-mail Ok there you go, it's on the site and hope you get a fair few enquiries. Thanks. - Webmaster

11/12/2004 Please visit www.krishibid.info and if you find useful, then add this site link to ur site please. With regards webmaster www.krishibid.info Link to your site has been added to the rightpanel of BPC site. Thanks. - Webmaster

21/09/2004 Good afternoon, Was wondering if their is a Cultural or Support Group in the Community of Griffith for the Bangladesh Community? Regards Karen Egan Griffith, Leeton, Narrandera, Murrumbidgee Not very sure but I do not think so. If anybody happens to know otherwise, can they please respond? - Webmaster

13/09/2004 Dear Sir, I would like to know your details. I would like to know: do you help those Bangladeshis who have no legal paper in Australia? Thanking you. Best regards S.M.Khasrul Alam Unfortunately, Bangla Proshar does not offer any help on immigration issues. - Webmaster

13/08/2004 My sister need help to find a place to live in Melborne as a paying guest for 3 months. Mahbub

05/08/2004 Hi I am Anand Rao. I had lived for quite some time in Kolkata and have now been living in Sydney for the last twenty years. I am interested in finding out when and where various bangla cultural events get hosted in Sydney. Do you have a magazine or other means by which one can find out? Also, I would like to know where I can find details of matrimonials within the bangla community either from those who have migrated from India (Kolkata) or those who are already residents here for a number of years? Is there a magazine or other means by which I can find out ? Appreciate your response in regards to this matter. Regards Anand Rao The Community Events page on the site at http://www.banglaprosar.org.au/commevents.php should serve your first purpose. I do not know the answer to the second question though. If anybody happens to know the answer, can they please respond? - Webmaster

12/06/2004 I am of the Australasian Bangalee Council. We are desperately trying to correctly identify ourselves as Bangla language speakers (Bangalees). So, the language is Bangla (not 'Bengali') and we are Bangalees (not Bengalees/Bangalis). We are trying to retain our distinct identity and asking everyone to let us live with dignity. That's all. Jamil Shibli Canterbury NSW 2195

06/05/2004 Hi, ..any Bengalees around this area.. also any shops selling Bengalee items around here? Shampa Sen Gupta Toowoomba QLD 4350 Sorry Shampa we are in Sydney. Any Toowoomban to help Shampa out? - Webmaster

06/05/2004 ANNOUNCEMENT Dear All, We are proudly announcing that on 1st Baishaakh 1411, 14th April 2004 www.BD-BAZAAR.com will be opened for your ultimate choices for shopping. We are providing best quality of handicrafts, clothes, ornaments, gift items, interiors etc. So everyone is cordially invited to visit our BD-BAZAAR on following days during our Bengali New Year promotional sale at 50% off at Joondalup and Fremantle Shopping Mall Area. Places and Dates for Bengali New Year Sale: Joondalup Lake side Shopping Mall WA 6027 - Date : 13th April 2004 to 24th April 2004 Time : Shopping Mall Hours ( 6 days a week ) Wools Stores Shopping Mall Fremantle WA - Date : 27th April 2004 to 9th may 2004 Time : Shopping Mall Hours ( 7days a week ) Thank you for your co-operation. Best Wishes Shuvo Naba Barsha 1411 from BD-BAZAAR Team web: www.bd-bazaar.com e-mail: info@bd-bazaar.com

23/04/2004 Greetings!!! I just want to know where can I find the list of winners of your International children's Art Competition. Thank you very much and hope to hear from you at the soonest possible time. Teacher Sen The Philippines Teacher, we are trying to find the info out for you. Thanks for the beautiful photo in the meantime. Where did you take it? - Webmaster

30/03/2004 I just visited the BPC and found the section on Palindrome. It's interesting. How about two names such as Subol Bosu and Haran Raha. Does it sound same if you roll over it? Cheers, Saswati Bathurst,NSW Saswati, Nice try with the palindromes. But you got to come up with longer ones for them to replace the current record holders on the site. Thanks anyway. - Webmaster

11/02/2004 Dear All, I am Atri Ray a Bengalee from India. I am working in a managerial position in a multinational at Mumbai. Today while surfing the net I came across your fabulous site. I felt ecstatic and proud to see what my Bengalee brothers and sisters are doing in a far away distant land. The site is an all encompassing one and caters to all that one seeks from a probashi site. Its also very interesting to know our achievements and the key events taking place. It was a pleasure knowing about the site, the work we are doing and the pride that we jointly and individually share being a Bengalee. "Proud to be a Bengalee and proud of all of you". Keep up the good work. warm regards, Atri Ray

27/01/2004 Thanks a million to sort out the font issue. I have enjoyed very much reading the poems. I must applaud and praise the quality of these poets. Moreover, thanking the efforts of making this website meaningful. I, personally, do not live in Australia but am interested in it. By the way, do you archive your old issues? Cheers indeed, Debashis Barua Belgium Banglaprosar is a new site and hence it does not have an archive as yet. But we plan to add a Google-based search to the site very soon though. - Webmaster

21/01/2004 Dear Webmaster, I have tried to open some of the poems published on your website Bangla Proshar through Acrobat reader 6.0 but I am getting an error saying "font missing". May I ask for your assistance. Looking forward to hearing your response. Debashis Barua Belgium This has been fixed. The font previously used was not 'embeddable' in Acorobat Reader. Should be fine now. Thanks for pointing out. - Webmaster

14/12/2003 just perused the 'live' website of the committee and was fascinated with the aims and mission statements that form part of its core charter. and this mail is a follow up based on my surfing. allow me to introduce ourselves. we are the Ankur Bangla Project - collaborative effort of programmers, developers, graphic artists, linguists, technocrats from West Bengal and Bangladesh. our home page is at :: www.bengalinux.org. the Ankur Bangla Project was initiated with the objective of 'Empowering People' by making computing in Bangla possible. Computing in Bangla encapsulates all possible aspects of computing that can be made to undergo localisation to bridge the digital divide. a recent article in the leading english daily in West Bengal (The Telegraph) is available here and neatly lays out the roadmap for the future (URL maybe wrapped) :: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1031208/asp/business/story_2655609.asp the Ankur Bangla Project aims to reach out to the members of the Bengali diaspora which form vibrant communities all over the world in order to create a completely collaborative platform that addresses and resolves issues on the very important concept of 'Bangla Computing'. sankarshan mukhopadhyay member, Ankur Bangla Project www.bengalinux.org Bringing Bangla to the GNU/Linux desktop

14/12/2003 Well, have gone through some of the pages of this web site. Really really good effort for such enthusiasm, however, did find out that before launching or publishing anything on the net, the words and contents should be properly edited and simplified. And, lastly, thank you for such a tremendous good effort after establishing a Bangla web site like this. Taha B. Bashar Sydney NSW, Australia

10/10/2003 Can you PLS do some thing about Bangla letter with English spelling? I want to know how to write my name with Bangla letters and maybe there is a very easy way to learn. We want to see big Bangla letters on this web site. Thanks. Liza Islam Macquarie Fields NSW, Australia Age: 13

8/10/2003 Excellent, Bangla Proshar Committee. Thanks to all of you for this excellent job. Is it possible to say \"Bangla Proshar Committee\" instead of \"Bangla Prosar Committee\". \'h\' is missing. Please note: could not see the current committee, may be under construction. But go ahead and contribute for our great Bengali community. Regards and thanks Anwar Akash Hammondville NSW, Australia

7/10/2003 We can see that it is a very good effort for the Bangla community. Thanks for my daughter Liza's photo. But there is no photo of my other daughter Anita. Anyway, it is still a very good effort. Taru Islam Macquarie Fields NSW, Australia