DHAKA -- By day, Abu Bakar Siddique is a music producer for Bangladesh Betar -- the South Asian nation's state-run radio network -- where a typical workday includes writing music for various program segments and then pulling together all the different parts of the recording process.
"It gets monotonous sometimes. You know, an artist can never get satisfaction if he or she has to create music under a deadline," said Siddique, 59. "But that's a part of my job."







