By IANS
Dhaka : Bangladesh’s renowned instrumentalist Abinash Chandra Shill is dead. Shill, 54, died here Saturday following a heart attack.
He was a specialist on playing Dotara, a two-bowed instrument of the Sarangi family popular across South Asia.
Belonging to a family of musicians, he was a freedom fighter who used to broadcast on Bangladesh Betar, the radio network that contributed to Bangladesh’s separatist movement against Pakistan.
Shill had played at the cultural fest that accompanied the 14th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit in New Delhi in April this year, The Daily Star said Sunday.
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