Dhaka, Sept. 16 -- Poet and writer Farhad Mazhar has said that it would be an understatement to refer to Farida Parveen merely as an artist.

Her legacy, he said, lies not only in her music but in her profound role in popularising the philosophy and songs of Fakir Lalon Shah-not just across Bangladesh, but throughout the subcontinent and even globally.

He was talking to reporters before namaz-e-janaza of legendary Lalon singer Farida Parveen at the Kushtia Municipal Graveyard on Sunday night.

"Farida Parveen has created a movement," he said. "It is from this movement that many of us have drawn inspiration and grown," he said.

"We genuinely aspire to develop Kushtia as a cultural capital-one that could become the richest cultural city i...