The sixth edition of the International Children Film Festival organised by Bangladesh Children Film Society in association with UNICEF was inaugurated on Saturday simultaneously at 22 venues in six divisional towns in the country. With the slogan, ‘Future in Frame’, the festival features 200 films, created by children filmmakers from forty two counties will be ... Read more
Art & Culture
Nipa researches on folk dance
For the last few years, Shamim Ara Nipa has been conducting vast research on Bangladeshi folk dance forms. With her great passion for folk dance, the dance diva is trying to popularise the folk genres like jari, lathi, dhamail, bratachari and more. ‘Folk are the only dance forms which are uniquely ours. To represent our ... Read more
Radio Mahananda celebrates 1st anniversary
Cultural and rights activists, journalists, teachers, students, entrepreneurs, along with government officials of Chapanawabganj celebrated the 1st anniversary of Radio Mahananda FM 98.8, a community radio, last Saturday. Proyash Manobik Unnayan Sangstha, a local NGO, launched the radio station last year. To mark the anniversary, the organisers arranged several programmes including rally, discussions
Haradhan Bandopadhyay passes away
Veteran Bengali film actor Haradhan Bandopadhyay passed away on January 5 at a hospital in Kolkata. The 87-year-old actor is survived by his wife and two sons. The actor worked with Satyajit Ray in films like “Shonar Kella” (Golden Fort), “Jai Baba Felunath” and “Mahanagar”, among others. He also worked with other
Cavalcade Of Prints
Kibria Print Fair, being held at Dhaka Art Center, covers major and emerging artists, including Wakilur Rahman, Shishir Bhattacharjee, Abul Barq Alvi, Laila Sharmeen, Nisar Hussain etc. The event marks 84th birth anniversary of artist Mohammad Kibria and 3rd anniversary of Dhaka Art Center. The participating institutions are: Printmaking Department, Faculty of Fine Arts
Film industry hopes for a better future
The concerned people of the country’s film industry hope for a better year to get rid of the ongoing slumped trade in the mainstream industry. Introduction of the digital film screening in the cinemas across the country that showed hope in the past year would create a boon in this year in terms of producing ... Read more
Comics, Cosplay, and Collectibles
First Dhaka Comicon wraps up Dhaka’s pop culture following is not big, but it is not new either. Starting from teenagers to veteran entrepreneurs, there are collectors and ardent followers of movies, comics and video games spread across the capital. Samdani Art Foundation made a wonderful initiative to bring all of them under one roof, ... Read more
Bodhon celebrates silver jubilee in Chittagong
Bodhon Abritti Parishad, a renowned poetry society association of the port city recently celebrated its silver jubilee under the theme “Andhar bhenge alor bunon” (Escape from darkness to the world of light). Marking the special occasion, it organised a four-day festival which started at District Shilpakala Academy premises featuring discussions, performances of solo and group ... Read more
Rokeya and Sakhawat Memorial School — One Hundred Years After
Iqbal Bahar Choudhury Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was a social reformer, educationist, prolific writer and campaigner for human rights and gender equality in British India. She was a writer without boundaries. Her words spoke to the world as a whole and often talked passionately on issues that are only now being recognised as vitally important. ... Read more
Autumn welcomed through music, dance
Cultural organisation Chhayanaut Sangskritik Kendra welcomed the month of autumn by arranging a colourful programme at the early morning of Friday held at the Bakultala of Faculty of Fine Art of Dhaka University. The programme featured Nobel Laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore’s timeless songs synchronised with dance recitals upholding the beauty of autumn. The students and
Narigan highlights the ignored women
History focuses on the heroes, their triumphs and victories, yet it does not highlight the people behind these specters of brilliance especially the women who supported them and in the end shared in their glories and downfalls. The play Narigan, by eminent poet-playwright Syed Shamsul Haque and directed by theatre personality Ataur Rahman, depicts the ... Read more
Pritilata’s bronze sculpture to be installed in port city
A new bronze sculpture of Pritilata Waddedar, an associate of Master-da Surja Sen and the first Bengali woman to embrace martyrdom for freedom from British colonial rule, will be installed in front of Pahartali Railway School, adjacent to the then European Club, in the port city. As a tribute to her martyrdom in 1932, the ... Read more
Norwegian folk dance presented
Norwegian dancers Ulf Arne Johanssen and Margit Myher moved the Dhaka audience through the colourful by folk dance recitals. Thirsty local dancers also performed with the Norwegian duo at the programme on Sunday at the Sawkat Osman auditorium of the Central Public Library on Sunday, which was basically an output of a five-day workshop on ... Read more
Mughal history through contemporary eyes
Prangane Mor’s new play “Aurangzeb” Does history repeat itself or is it all about individual fate? Whatever it is, the confession or self-realisation that the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb made in his last days forms the core of a new play, “Aurangzeb”. The play sees Aurangzeb facing the similar fate that his father, Shah Jahan, endured ... Read more
Baul songs blow audience to serenity
The duo just drowned the audience into the world of music where tragic characters of pallikabi Jasumiddin’s phenomenal narrative Nakshi Kanthar Math appeared on the illusion of the audience. The magical moment created through Kiron Chandra Roy’s voice modulation with Dashrath’s spectacular dhol [an Indian rhythm instrument] performance truly took the audience
Presenting war of independence in lens
Visual documentation of an extraordinary time and of the people who fought to give birth to a new nation is on display by Abdul Hamid Raihan’s ongoing solo exhibition at Dhaka Art Centre. The freelance photographer from Kushtia district displays 40 historic photographs taken by him during the war of independence in 1971. Raihan’s stills ... Read more
An evening of folk songs by Tapan Roy
Indira Gandhi Culture Centre, Dhaka in association with the State Bank of India in Bangladesh and Channel i as media partner, recently organised an evening of folk songs by Indian exponent Dr. Tapan Roy. Among the songs presented by Roy were, “Jamuna Tumi Ki Aar”, “Ekbar Aisho Phire Robi Thakur”, “ Matiro Pinjirar Majhe” (Hason ... Read more
Stories in Silk
Inspired by the paintings of noted Bangladeshi expatriate artist Shahabuddin Ahmed, three Chinese painters have created a number of hand embroidered silk needle painting. Under the title “Silk Story”, the exhibition opens today at Gallery Chitrak in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. Shahabuddin Ahmed will inaugurate the exhibition as chief guest. Needle painting is also
A Poet Extraordinaire
Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal’s 23rd death anniversary Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal — a poet, educationist, singer and composer — was a professor of Bengali literature at Dhaka University and was the director general of the Bangla Academy from 1986 till his death in 1989. An orator, narrator and conversationalist, Abu Hena had an irresistible charm. ... Read more
Glorifying beauty of rain
Monsoon always inspires dreaming and fascinates the artists, poets, lyricists, and the dramatists to nurture their creativity. The marvelous look of the refreshing green after a moderate rain has always been a great inspiration for young artist Alley Khan to transform her personal emotions onto canvas. As an orator of the rain, the romantic artist ... Read more