Shayan emerged in the music scene of the country with her debut album 'Shayaner Gaan' in 2008, standing out as one who sings to uphold a cause, not merely to entertain. With an educational background in psychology and law, she knew she would not live by bread alone. 'I exist because I sing,' she says. 'I want to sustain the strain of centuries-old Bangla music in my songs and add something new to it.' Keeping herself aloof from the media, she combined the politically enthused songs with a few romantic numbers in her second album 'Abar Takiye Dekh' in 2009. 'I give expression to my thoughts and emotions. Political consciousness is a very integral part of that.' She refuses to be labelled as a political or romantic singer or anything as such and is determined to take Bangla music to new heights. 
Among a host of television talk-show hosts, Kazi Jesin stands out for her unique style of confronting her guests, often politically powerful, with biting questions on sensitive issues of public importance. Her supplementary questions during a conversation speak of her strong command over the topics that she deals with - a quality not quite common among talk-show hosts in Bangladesh. Before she became a talk-show host, she had a career as a journalist, first as a news presenter and then as an investigative reporter for Ekushey TV. Soon she turned to hosting political talk-shows for TV channels in a bid to engage political leaders, and others, in dialogue to democratic accountability of the governors. 'Turning to talk-shows emanated from my commitment to journalism, from my urge to thwart the underlying ill-practices in certain fields,' she says. After 'Kalkatha' on Channel One and 'Tini' on Ekushey TV, Jesin is now hosting a popular talk-show - Point of Order - on Banglavision. 'The most significant feature of the programme lies in the transparency and accountability secured through direct interaction with viewers by phone calls, SMS and email,' Jesin says of the show. Asking the right questions and thus trying to make the politically powerful quarters accountable to the people is not an easy task in an otherwise non-transparent society like ours. Jesin has received death threats, followed by packets of shroud, from undemocratic quarters more than once. Moreover, certain security agencies of the state are never tired of advising her on the do's and don'ts of electronic journalism! But nothing has so far been able to deter her from digging deeper into the burning issues - social, political and economic. And that is exactly what makes the young woman different from many others in the trade. Apart from her television career, she is also a poet with two poetry collections to her credit. 
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