Mro language and heritage take centre stage at AFD
3 March 2026, 17:30 PM
The event drew a diverse audience united in their admiration for the Mro people’s resilience in preserving their language and cultural heritage.
3 March 2026, 17:30 PM
Edge Gallery pays tribute to 1952 language movement through art and history
28 February 2026, 12:52 PM
The exhibition showcased a powerful blend of original artwork, contemporary pieces, and preserved historical artifacts, illustrating the sacrifices made during the language movement and the long struggle for the recognition of Bengali as a state language.
28 February 2026, 12:52 PM
‘Alo’: Prothom Alo’s artistic, powerful response to violence against press freedom
22 February 2026, 22:58 PM
Freedom of expression, enshrined in UN human rights instruments, UNESCO declarations, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, remains a cornerstone of democratic societies. It ensures that journalists can report facts, hold authority to account, and document history as it unfolds. Though protected by law, these rights are often taken for granted. Journalism, in its pursuit of truth, continues to carry inherent risk.
22 February 2026, 22:58 PM
Documentary screenings: Molla Sagar’s films on resistance and lived realities
10 February 2026, 17:21 PM
A special screening of four documentary films by filmmaker Molla Sagar was held on February 7, at Bengal Shilpalay in Dhanmondi. The event brought together narratives rooted in people’s movements, labour struggles, ecological relationships and lived histories, offering a rare opportunity to engage with documentary cinema in a filmmaking landscape where the form remains underrepresented.
10 February 2026, 17:21 PM
‘Into My Lungs’: Unseen cost of breath in the cotton industry
3 February 2026, 11:47 AM
If you live in Dhaka long enough, you learn how the city runs on things you do not see: back-end labour, silent trades, invisible costs politely filed under the word industry. “Into My Lungs”, a multimedia exhibition by artists Ayman Alazraq and Emanuel Svedin, walks straight into that blind spot and refuses to look away. Running from January 23 to February 7, 2026, at Alliance Française de Dhaka, Gulshan, the exhibition takes a subject most people never talk about and places it directly in front of you, impossible to ignore.
3 February 2026, 11:47 AM
Preserving what flows: Dhanmondi Lake at the Goethe-Institut
3 February 2026, 10:45 AM
Dhanmondi Lake began as part of a natural water system before being reshaped through planning decisions that accompanied the growth of the neighbourhood. Over the decades, it has absorbed new roles as a recreational space, ecological corridor, and social meeting ground. The exhibition traced these shifts with care, presenting the lake as an accumulation of layers formed through use, intervention, neglect, and attachment.
3 February 2026, 10:45 AM
'Parallels': Local contemporary architectural discourse in practice
31 January 2026, 13:34 PM
Architecture does not have that luxury, or even wants it. It is meant to be entered, tested, and lived inside. "Parallels" leans into that truth, treating architecture as something that unfolds through experience rather than something completed at first glance.
31 January 2026, 13:34 PM
Before the masterclass: Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal on the endurance of rock
27 January 2026, 19:22 PM
Getting down from the bike before the YAMAHA Flagship Center at 5:45pm last Friday, January 23, I spotted a short, lean man; hardly looking older than 40–45, walking out of the parking lot. As he moved closer, it became clear who I was looking at: Ibrahim Ahmed Kamal, the legendary guitarist of Warfaze, who was in town to lead “Guitar Master Class 4”, a special session featuring him as the guest mentor.
27 January 2026, 19:22 PM
‘Tobuo Jege Uthi’: Commodification of women in a patriarchal world
Acclaimed theatre director and founder of Dhaka University’s Department of Theatre and Music, Syed Jamil Ahmed, established Spardha Independent Collective with just five members in September 2018. Among them is the notable Mohsina Akhter. A direct student of Syed Jamil Ahmed, she is simultaneously a director, performer, and costume designer. This May, she made her big-screen debut with the release of “Jaya aar Sharmin”. However, she prefers not to differentiate between mediums of storytelling. As she explains, “People who know how to swim can swim in any body of water.”
9 September 2025, 15:29 PM
There is a point to this, I think
Here are a few things I learned in the one month we haven’t spoken
28 February 2025, 18:00 PM
Kafka says
It’s been so long since we last spoke that I don’t think I can talk to you without confessing something.
There you were, standing before me
10 January 2025, 18:00 PM
Survival tactics for “peaceful” protests
Stay in a group, never in alleyways
30 August 2024, 18:00 PM
A man walks into a bar
a man walks into a bar but he looks like a little boy
2 August 2024, 18:00 PM