Long Distance Love: The forgotten art of waiting

Coke Studio Bangla’s latest song, “Long Distance Love”, emerges as a haunting meditation on distance, memory, and devotion.

Sung by Ankan Kumar with lyrics penned by PragataNaoha, the track unfolds like a letter from another time, a world where love was defined not by instant messages but by the endurance of waiting.

For Ankan and Pragata, the song is not merely a performance or a poem, but a reflection of what love once meant. Their words seem to suggest that love lived more deeply in absence than in presence. To them, waiting was not silence but a language of its own; one that carried trust, longing, and hope across oceans and seasons.

There was a time when lovers survived on fragments of paper. A folded letter, carried across seas by a postman, held more weight than a hundred hurried texts. The ink, the pauses between words, the smudges of hands where each carried the soul of someone far away.