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Recently I came across an article about the korean boy band BTS & their fandom ARMY through your daily article . They have been directed towards negative limelight and their activities which are mostly charity donations to help out those who are in need have been totally ignored. Instead the article focused more on stating how BTS is demolishing today’s generation and it has also been seen that the amount of effort they put on their lyrics to give people a message of comfort and hope, there has been an implication about how the BTS fandom solely consists of teenage and hysterical girls when the reality is totally opposite of what has been written. For your kind information the fandom does not only consists of teenagers but also have people around 30’s-40’s from all the ethnicities and different races. So I would like to accomplish that there should be done more research on the group & fandom before comprising such baseless articles. It hampers both the Group’s and fandom’s reputation.
I hope this matter will be solved as soon as possible and I’m looking forward to your positive response.

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Recently I have seen a misinformation displayed in an article through your daily regarding Korean boy band BTS and their fandom Army. They have been put on negative light and their activities, which are mostly charity donations to aid those in needs have been totally ignored. Instead, the article showed BTS’ negative influence on today’s generation. Instead of considering BTS’ positive lyricism that sends hope and a message of self – love there has been an implication that most of the fandom includes immature teenage girls when the reality is actually reverse. Most of the fandom is comprised of people whose age ranges from 18 – 40.So I would like to emphasize particularly on the research to be done appropriately before writing down such false articles. It hampers both the artist’s and the fandom’s reputation.
I hope this matter is solved as soon as possible and I am looking forward to your positive response.

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Myself Mohammad Nayeem, 74 yrs. old Senior citizen, customer ID[protected]ananda bazaar & telegraph subscription) have submitted a cheque no. 505033 dtd. 04.02.2020 for an amount of Rs. 2502/- of SBI Bank, which has been debited on 11.02.2020 but till date subscription coupon has not received yet. In this regard I have given many reminders through WhatsApp (dtd. 23rd July, 9th September & 21st October, 2020) & email dtd. 13.11.2020 & 15.12.2020 and also sent my son to enquire about this but no proper reply received.

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The everyday newspaper which people rely on has written misinformation regarding global superstar BTS. A south korean boy group consisting of 7 members Rm, Jin, suga, j-hope, jimin, v and jungkook.

First of all let me point out that because of BTS the world is in a better place and many lives have changed because if them. And the first and foremost thing how can newspaper even publish such disrespectful things about a band that has saved millons of lives and also spoken at UNICEF and during this pandemic saved millions of lives by donating and also donated to black lives matter. And if talking about fans then let me clear out one thing ‘army matched a million’ with BTS donated for black lives matter which tollywood actor dev also disrespected the black lives matter hastag. Who is he to disrespect such an important matter? And talking about ditching schools and mobile phones then one should speak about the toxic tollywood which has spreaded toxicity onto youths. BTS just stopped that toxicity from spreading more. And a band who’s being considered as the next generation ‘beatles’ although they are BTS and not any beatles, how dare a bengali newspaper is just mocking BTS and bts armys and treating them like ###S. We bts armys also can treat tollywood lovers like ### because in the end there is no fruit. I don’t like to judge but writing these about a band who is a global superstar and hit single dynamite topped the chart this year 2020. Moreover the writers should whom they are writing about, these shows how illeterate they are, using studies in a wrong way. Just do research about BTS and then publish something. You can’t beat bts or bts armys to stop loving each other. And let me say if you think you can stop us getting to BTS, stop listening to their music and only listen to tollywood ### which is not having base then you made a wrong mistake. We won’t stop loving k-pop. Atleast talents are there unlike tollywood, for those ###S students bunk their schools to watch movies, apply the actions in the real lives. K-pop is the pillar even if the people apply it in their lives, only artistic skills would show up.

That’s all i’ll not say much more than this otherwise a whole modern history would be produced. Writers please do enough research about global superstars, billboard hot 100 no.1 singers, grammy nominated artists BTS.

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Recently I have seen a misinformation displayed in an article through your daily regarding Korean boy band BTS and their fandom Army. They have been put on negative light and their activities, which are mostly charity donations to aid those in needs have been totally ignored. Instead, the article showed BTS’ negative influence on today’s generation. Instead of considering BTS’ positive lyricism that sends hope and a message of self – love there has been an implication that most of the fandom includes immature teenage girls when the reality is actually reverse. Most of the fandom is comprised of people whose age ranges from 18 – 40.So I would like to emphasize particularly on the research to be done appropriately before writing down such false articles. It hampers both the artist’s and the fandom’s reputation.
I hope this matter is solved as soon as possible and I am looking forward to your positive response.

+91 33 2234 5374

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+91 33 2237 8000

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ছোট থেকে বাড়িতে যে newspaper পড়ে বড়ো হয়েছি সেখানে আজকে এরকম একটা article দেখতে হবে কখনও আশা করি নি। বেশ ক বছর ধরে আমি k-pop follow করি তাই আজকে সকালে আনন্দবাজার এ বড় বড় করে লেখা k pop এর নাম টা পড়ে সত্যি খুব ভালো লেগেছিল কিন্তু সেই ভালোলাগা বেশি ক্ষণ থাকল না। প্রথমেই বলি article টি kpop নিয়ে শুরু না শুরু হয় kpop artist and a member of Bts: Suga র operation নিয়ে ।কেন তা বুঝলাম না। আপনি Suga-র heath এর বিষয় এ জানেন কতটা আর একজন fan তার bias এর একটা major operation এর পর তার জন্য prey করছে এখনে অসুবধা টা কোথায় ? আমদের Amithabh Bacchan এর যখন corona হয়েছিল, সৌমিত্র বাবু যখন hospitalized হলেন তখন তার অনুগামিরা তার জন্য প্রার্থনা করেন নি? এখানে অস্বাভাবিকতা র কি আছে? দ্বিতীয়ত লেখাটা Kpop নিয়ে হওয়ার কথা ছিল কিন্তু পুরো article টাই Bts এবং তার সদস্যদের নিয়ে কেন লেখা হয়েছে ? তবে গা বাঁচিয়ে রাখার জন্য blackpink, mamamoo, saventeen এর নামও লেখা হয়েছে। সব কিছুরি ভালো খারাপ দিক রয়েছে সেটা তো মানবেন। আপনি যে বাচ্চা মেয়েদের উল্লেখ করেছেন তারা এখনও ছোট তাদের এখনো এটা বোঝার বয়স হয় নি কি করে bts এর থেকে inspiration নিয়ে তাদের গান এর মাধ্যমে পাঠান massage গুলো থেকে influence নিয়ে সেটা র প্রয়োগ নিজের life এ করা উচিত। সবাই তো আর অন্ধ অনুগামী হয় না অনেকে বুদ্ধিমান অনুগামীদের হয়। Bts দের million million fan যাদের “Bts army” বলে, তাদের মতামত একবার শুনে দেখবেন YouTube থেকে। ‘they lived because they find a cause to live and that cause is Bts’ এরকম কথাও কানে আসবে. Some armys says that thay Bts helped them to reach to their dream and helped to become successful in their life, helped them to be a better person. এরকম আর অনেকক মন্তব্ব শুনতে পাবেন। তবে আপনি তার মর্ম বুঝবেন কিনা বা বুঝতে চাইবেন কি না তাতে সন্দেহ আছে। আমরা কোনো তত্ত্ব কোথায় যেতে আগ্রহী নই আপনাকে কে বলল? কেন আমদের kpop প্রিয় তার বিশ্লেশন ঐ বাচ্চা গুলোর কাছে না চেয়ে যারা কথা বলতে চায় এই ব্যপারে তাদের থেকে জানতে চান শুধু বিশ্লেশন কেন পরলে আপনি তদের মতামত শুনে নিজেও একজন kpop fan এ পরিণত হবেন। আরও অনেক কিছু বলার আছে কিন্তু হাত এ সময় কম। in conclusion I just want to say that Kpop rather Bts is a huge chapter that cannot define them in just 10 to 15 lines like a k.g. school paragraph. If you want a fake publicity and TRP than it’s a black mark on your face and a brand like Anandabazar. Rather You should publish about their good deeds, their good works their influential messages to the new generation. Tought the children how to use Bts to become a better person..be responcible not a hater. Thank you. No offence.

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In the recent article regarding BTS, the fandom army had been put on a negative light that shows that fans as kids who are obsessed and crazy about their idols. Army fandom mostly consists of people ranging from 18-40 years old extreme diversity and love among each other. The fandoms does some charity works influenced by the band. Instead of showing the bright side or beautiful artistry and lyricism of BTS all the article did was defame us in front of locals and fuel the haters.
I request better done to be research before publishing such articles, talk about how BTS make music about self love instead of showing that some phenomena that kids are obessed with.

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I recently came across an article on kpop boy band BTS which was published on 14th Dec 2020. There were many hateful comments on the boy band as well as racist comments on our fellow North East Indians. With the growing popularity of kpop in India as well as all over the world the said article was very disrespectful. You described their fandom as ‘teenagers who are obsessed with looks’ but the fact is this fandom consist of people of different age, cast, gender and creed. BTS is well known as the Global Ambassador o[censored]NICEF. They are known for donating 1 million usd to BLM and their fandom (ARMY) matched that 1 million usd and donated it to BLM. During the recent Assam flood the Indian Fans donated a sum total of 6 lakh and 2+ lakhs to the government for the Corona patients. The said fandom also raised money to donate to the ngos who provide food and fodder to cancer patients in India even donated to an organization who runs night schools in India. There might be a part of our fandom who are teens but beside of all our craze we donate as well. BTS taught us to love ourselves, to become a better version of ourselves and to cherish all the little things in our lives.

I’ve seen you quoting the negativity but not the positive influence the band and the fandom has. Please do further reserarch before writing any article on someone. You lack of research can leave a negative impact on others. Considering how big you are in West Bengal this was quite unprofessional of you and your team.

Thanking You

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The article that was published abt Kpop in this newspaper, I find it somehow wrong and that theme of the writing was really offensive, there you mentioned kpop fans as children which is wrong, AR. Rahman, The Beatles’s sir Paul praised BTS. John Cena, Rashmika Mandana, S.Korean president, James Corden, Lauv, Max, Halsey, Charlie puth and many more are BTS fans and not only BTS you’ll see there are so many fans of kpop in the world even the number is much much bigger than any other fandom, and ofc you must know that ARMY (BTS FANS) IS THE WORLD’S BIGGEST FANDOM, so it can’t be only kids, so the thing I fing underrated.
And second of all I find the words like ‘Rong chonge and others (I didn’t remember all) really bad, but I know it all happened because of lack knowledge, then you must know that kpop is way better than any industry nowadays. Because they talk about self love, social injustice, depression in their songs, also many more things like that they use deep theories in their songs like ” The garden of Eden”, “sins I life” And many more. They also promote and support LGBTQ, and the biggest thing is please don’t write in such way, because of BTS so many people came out of depression and difficulties in their life, go and search for it in Google. They works for children from all over the world, their “End violence against children campaign” Is the reason behind so many smiles, their fandom ARMY also get award from UN. Not only that they donated 1M dollar to support their artist and also to support people in BLM, Indian BTS ARMY always do this kind of thing they help financially in Assam flood etc. Now BTS is Grammy nominated artist with Unicef Inspire award, they topped US I tunes, Indian Spotify, broke several record on YouTube, had sold highest number of album in 2019 in the world, Billboard #1artist in hot 100 and hot 200, MTV award winning ner, AMA winner, VMA winner and many moreeeeeeeee. So please be careful from now on because their fandom and every people are way more sensitive abt their idols because they gave us meaningful songs and also helped us in life with theories like self love and many more. After our parents, loved ones and others kpop idols played a major role because they also helped in difficult times because music has the healing powers.

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আমি জানি না Aritcal টা এমন ভাবে লেখার কারণ কি, কিন্তু এইটুকু বুঝতে পেরেছি Negativity ছড়ানো টা উদ্দেশ্য, এতে Parents দের মনে K POP সম্মন্ধে একটা খারাপ মনোভাব জন্মাবে এছাড়াও যারা K POP সম্মন্ধে অবগত না তাদের মনেও খারাপ ধারণা হবে, যারা K POP শোনে তাদের সবাই এমন না যে সারাদিন নিজে পড়াশোনা বাদ দিয়ে নিজের কাজ বাদ দিয়ে K POP নিয়ে পড়ে থাকে, কেও কেও Inspiration হিসবেও নেই

BTS K POP er অন্যতম একটি নাম ওই 7 টা ছেলে কত ভেঙে যাওয়া মানুষ কে বাঁচতে শেখাই কত মানুষ কে প্রতিদিন স্বপ্ন দেখতে শেখাই,

Artical টা যদি ওদের Struggle এর Stroy লেখা হতো কীভাবে ওরা একদম শূন্য থেকে আকাশ ছোঁয়া সাফল্য পেলো এবং পাচ্ছে এই সন্বন্ধে লেখা হতো তাহলে কত ছেলেমেয়ে Inspiration পেতো ।।