Fayza Haq

A week before Christmas, bakery shop Coopers has its fairy lights. In Dhanmondi, the places are decked up with blue, white and purple fairy lights. I am forced to put on my 'dancing shoes and dance away the blues'.

A month long solo painting exhibition paying tribute to legendary boxer Mohammad Ali began on July 30 at Bay's Gallery in Radius Centre, in the capital's Gulshan. There are 32 paintings by Proshanto Karmakar tracing Ali's life from youth to old age.

Sharis and suits make for popular Eid gifts. If one is affluent, little pieces of jewellery will do the trick, while perfumes and cosmetics are also dear to many. Going in for ornate quilted rugs for best friends is a pleasant gesture too.

What with Eid approaching, people are going helter skelter to touch-up their hair and hands with “mehdi”--both to look their best and keep with an old tradition of Bangladesh.

It was the requiem of Madan Shahu, with all its magnificence. His body lay splendid in the wooden byre while the office colleagues of 25 years had gathered there.

Broken windows, rotting and weather-beaten walls, moth-eaten pieces of wood...

A group art exhibition titled “Taste of Light Darkness- 2” began on February 26 and ends on March 8 at La galerie,

Galleri Kaya celebrates Hamiduzzaman Khan's 70th birth anniversary with a solo sculpture exhibition. The exhibit opens today and runs till March18.