If you're in Bangladesh and you have the national anthem as your ringtone, you better change it quick: On Monday, the country's Supreme Court banned the use of the song for any commercial purpose. Upholding a 2010 high court ruling, the Supreme Court stated that "the national anthem can't be used as a business tool." "Amar Shonar Bangla," or "My Golden Bengal," is based on the first 10 lines of a 1905 song by Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, and became the anthem in 1972. Bangladesh has o...
In Bangladesh, it's now illegal to have the national anthem as a ringtone
The Week - 12 May 2015 05:08
If you're in Bangladesh and you have the national anthem as your ringtone, you better change it quick: On Monday, the country's Supreme Court banned the use of the song for any commercial purpose. Upholding a 2010 high court ruling, the Supreme Court stated that "the national anthem can't be used as a business tool." "Amar Shonar Bangla," or "My Golden Bengal," is based on the first 10 lines of a 1905 song by Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore, and became the anthem in 1972. Bangladesh has o...
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