DHAKA NEWS
Cultural connections could forge a commonality among the commonwealth nations, said speakers at a seminar yesterday marking Commonwealth Day, observed on March 12 this year.
Commonwealth Society Bangladesh (CSB) organised the seminar, “Connecting Cultures”, at Dhaka Club. The CSB, founded in 1993, advocates for democracy and poverty alleviation in Bangladesh.
Commonwealth Day is observed on the second Monday of March.
An eminent writer, Hasnat Abdul Hye, while presenting a keynote, said culture encompasses an entire way of life of a people and it is as old as and has profoundly benefited evolution of the human civilisation.
Cultural dissemination takes place through people to people contact. Traveling throughout the ages was the earliest mode of cultural connectivity and different religions too played a vital role in connecting cultures, he added.
Farooq Sobhan, president of Bangladesh Enterprise Institute and a former foreign secretary, said the 54-member Commonwealth makes it a family of around two billion people, two-thirds of which are youths.
The process of connecting cultures should be inclusive and democratic, he said.
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert W Gibson said the Commonwealth constitutes one-third of the world population with 500 million Muslims and one-fourth of the governments.
A prime goal of spending the UK aid in Commonwealth member countries is to alleviate poverty, he said.
CSB Vice-President Taleya Rehman read out a message of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, head of the Commonwealth, on the occasion of 63rd anniversary of Commonwealth Day.
“Our circumstances and surroundings may vary enormously, for example in the food we eat and the clothes we wear, but we share one humanity and this draws us all together,” read the message.
Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad and a former high commissioner, Prof Selina Mohsin, spoke at the seminar, presided over by CSB President Enam A Chaudhury.
Commonwealth Society Bangladesh (CSB) organised the seminar, “Connecting Cultures”, at Dhaka Club. The CSB, founded in 1993, advocates for democracy and poverty alleviation in Bangladesh.
Commonwealth Day is observed on the second Monday of March.
An eminent writer, Hasnat Abdul Hye, while presenting a keynote, said culture encompasses an entire way of life of a people and it is as old as and has profoundly benefited evolution of the human civilisation.
Cultural dissemination takes place through people to people contact. Traveling throughout the ages was the earliest mode of cultural connectivity and different religions too played a vital role in connecting cultures, he added.
Farooq Sobhan, president of Bangladesh Enterprise Institute and a former foreign secretary, said the 54-member Commonwealth makes it a family of around two billion people, two-thirds of which are youths.
The process of connecting cultures should be inclusive and democratic, he said.
British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert W Gibson said the Commonwealth constitutes one-third of the world population with 500 million Muslims and one-fourth of the governments.
A prime goal of spending the UK aid in Commonwealth member countries is to alleviate poverty, he said.
CSB Vice-President Taleya Rehman read out a message of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, head of the Commonwealth, on the occasion of 63rd anniversary of Commonwealth Day.
“Our circumstances and surroundings may vary enormously, for example in the food we eat and the clothes we wear, but we share one humanity and this draws us all together,” read the message.
Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad and a former high commissioner, Prof Selina Mohsin, spoke at the seminar, presided over by CSB President Enam A Chaudhury.
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