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Eminent Bengali poet Abul Hossain died on Sunday at about 10:30pm in the capital’s Square Hospital. He was 92 and was suffering from old-age complications. One of the most aged poets Abul Hossain was a parent figure to many in the contemporary literature arena in Bangladesh. Hossain, an Ekushey Padak winner, has had an unwavering ... Read more

In the country’s portrait photography arena, the name Nasir Ali Mamun comes as a pioneer. His camera, in the last four decades, has captured some wonderful portraits of famous men/women of the country and abroad. He is also noted for his portrait-photographs of common people, which capture the underlying reality beneath surface appearances. However, Mamun is ... Read more

Participating artistes of a dance training project titled Dhrumel, have put up an attractive cultural show, featuring different forms of traditional Monipuri dance. The event was jointly organised by Monipuri community organisations, Sadhana and the Monipuri Theatre at Madhabpur Monipuri Lalitakala Academy auditorium at Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar on Friday night. The cultural show marked ... Read more

It is said that a person without aim is like a boat without radar. A film titled Aim in Life deals with the dilemma of a young man in the modern era, trying to determine his purpose of life. The Bangla film, which has been directed by National Award winner filmmaker Fakhrul Arefin Khan, portrays ... Read more

The second issue of Six Seasons Review, an English language literary periodical published by Bengal Foundation, was launched at a programme at Bengal Art Lounge on Friday. The event featured readings from poets and writers whose works have been published in the issue. Among this issue’s writers and poets, Seema Amin and Samia Ahmed recited ... Read more

Fête De La Musique 2014 A carnival of music at Alliance Française de Dhaka The students of École de Musique, Alliance Française de Dhaka created a pleasing ambience on Friday at its La Galerie with songs and instrumental numbers. Alliance Française de Dhaka, supported by the Embassy of France in Bangladesh, celebrated Fête de la Musique ... Read more

Late Pakistani writer Sadat Hasan Manto is not a familiar name to the Dhaka audience, nor are his scathing stories widely known to the locals here. Noted theatre troupe Nagarik Natya Sampraday, for its recent production, selected three of Manto’s short stories to acquaint local audience with works of the writer. Kolkata-based thespian Usha Ganguly ... Read more

Eksho Bosta Chal, a joint theatre production by Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and the embassy of Japan in Dhaka, was staged yesterday at Netrakona District Shilpakala Academy. The play will see another staging at Kishoreganj District Shilpakala Academy today.The play is an adaptation of a famous Japanese play by Yuzo Yamamoto and has been translated in Bangla ... Read more

The fourth installation of popular science fiction action film Transformers, which is titled Transformers: Age of Extinction will hit the screen of the country today at Star Cineplex of Basundhara City. The release of the film in USA is also scheduled today. The film was premiered for invited guests yesterday evening. Star Cineplex has previously arranged to ... Read more

The death anniversary of one of the major poets of the 19th century Bangla literature, Bande Ali Miah, who hails from the present Pabna district of the country, goes almost unnoticed. Today is the 35th death anniversary of Poet Bande Ali Miah. Born on January 17 in 1906 in the village Narayanpur of Pabna district, ... Read more

The gang culture has suddenly become the hot topic in Bangladeshi films, featuring young stylish men working as the dependable cohort of social Godfathers. Of course, the young men are always good at heart, never disrespecting women, always finding time to play with children and hardly touching alcohol. They may well be saints working for the ... Read more

Jatra pala titled Devi Sultana, demonbstrating the need of harmonic co-existence of all religions, was staged at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Wednesday evening. Jatra troupe Joyjatra staged the pala. Devi Sultana, which has been written by Bhoirob Nath Gangopadhyay and directed by Habib Sarwar, reveals the story

A seven-day theatre festival featuring plays directed by thespian Ataur Rahman ended though a collage presentation of the plays in which Rahman acted. The festival ended at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Tuesday. The academy and Manchasarathi Ataur Rahman Karma Udjapon Parisad jointly organised the festival in celebrating

Among the court jesters of the eighteenth century India, Gopal Bhar’s name and fame surpasses all other. Gopal Bhar was a court jester of Raja Krishnachandra (1719-1783) of Nadia, and the time saw the emergence of court jester as a profession. But there is however an abiding contention as to the existence of an original, ... Read more

Fête De La Musique Abaji and bauls enchant audience Internationally renowned French-Lebanese singer, song writer and multi-instrumentalist Abaji, along with some Bangladeshi traditional baul musicians have enchanted the audience at La Galerie, Alliance Française de Dhaka on Saturday evening. This year’s Fête de la Musique, which is globally observed as the World Music Day, was ... Read more