Art & Design
HSBC to unveil Hashem Khan's artwork album on Saturday
With HSBC’s association with the album publication, this event aims to preserve the cultural heritage of Bangladesh and encourage artistic expression.
Nature Quest / Apes of the East
These Hoolock gibbons, locally known as "Ulluk", were spotted brachiating through the trees of Lawachhara National Park in Sylhet. Native to eastern Bangladesh, Northeast India, Myanmar and Southwest China, these lesser apes are diurnal, arboreal, and their method of locomotion is known as brachiation -- meaning they use their arms to swing from tree to tree
Snapshots of history—Golam Mustafa meets Manzoor Alam Beg
Modhurimay Alap (Swapno ‘71, 2023) transcribes two days of conversations with the late Golam Mustafa, first Director of Photography of Bangladesh Television.
Panihar Public Library: A heritage in ruins
A library containing more than 7702 periodicals, encyclopedias and books on literature, religion, poetry, science and economics—all wasting away from neglect.
Cover Story / Experiencing architecture around us
Architecture exists all around us, effecting our daily lives.
What students can expect from a major in Architecture
Architecture is a lot more than just drawing buildings and designing interiors.
Van Gogh's self portrait found underneath one of his paintings Art
A previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh has been discovered behind another of the artist’s paintings, the National Galleries of Scotland said Thursday.
Architect Rafiq Azam wins Robert Mathew Life Time Achievement Award
Bangladeshi Architect Rafiq Azam has won the Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA) Robert Mathew Life Time Achievement Award for 2022.
What's so funny about Comedy?
I left banking for comedy, because even my failures in comedy make me happier than my successes as a banker.
The enduring charm of 'potchitro'
For nine generations the Acharya family has depicted rural Bengal in their scroll paintings in a dream-like setting, where life was simpler but in no way easy.
The Politics of Art: Chaumtoli Huq's Documentary 'Workers Voices'
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile, who only has eyes if he's a painter, ears if he's a musician...
Ideology in Representation
While talking to Amit Patra, the scholar and independent filmmaker from Kolkata, invited to conduct a workshop on Documentary Film Production..
Frames of Identity
The death of the soul through the mechanism becomes doubtful at the moment the mechanism becomes ensouled.' (Thomas Mann, Rede über das Theater)
The Scrolls and Song of Gazi Pir
In a country with scant patronization of the folk arts, eminent thespian Ramendu Majumdar's Expressions Ltd is to be congratulated
Requiem for a Dream: Bot Tola's 'Crutcher Kornel'
'What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.' Arthur Conan Doyle