The year 2017 will always have a cloud of grief around it as the country said their final farewell to a galaxy of cultural personalities of the likes of Syed Shamsul Haque, Karunamaya Goswami, Sudhin Das, Kazi Arif, Kuti Monsur, Abdul Jabbar, Razzak, Bari Siddiqui and on November 30 Annisul Huq.