Omar Ali is Bangladesh’s unlikely new music star – he’s a white-bearded rickshaw puller from an impoverished village a day’s drive from the capital, Dhaka.
But his voice is golden and millions of viewers voted for him to win a television “Pop Idol”-style talent show, which has just reached its climax.
Magic Tin Chakar Taroka, or Three [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 31, 2008
Rickshaw men excel in ‘Pop Idol’
October 26, 2008
From the Times archive
The Times has just posted up this eyewitness report from 1971, after Pakistan had made the fateful decision to put down the pro-independence movement here with an overwelming display of force and cruelty. Notwithstanding the racial stereotyping, it makes for powerful reading, and has a surreal ending…
