Literature

“O Procrastination, I am Your Romeo!”

Shawdesh Desk: I fell for a lady so beautiful, for whom my heart bounced back and forth like a sound-box playing hip-hop. Blessed with well-defined features and petite lips, she

The Measure of Time

Shawdesh desk; On my bookshelf sits a small metal box, rusted with age, barely larger than an index card. The outside is adorned with brightly colored flowers. Stuffed inside, many

‘Buk Petechhi Guli Kor’ under way at Drik

Shawdesh Desk; A 16-DAY group photography exhibition titled Buk Petechhi Guli Kor is under way at Drik Gallery. The exhibition is showcasing various photographs of the student-led mass uprising in

Shawdesh Desk: Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigosthi observed the fifth anniversary of the death of its former president and journalist Kamal Lohani organising a programme at its central office at Topkhana Road

Ekushey Padak-winning linguist Mahbubul Haque dies

Shawdesh Desk: Ekushey Padak-winning linguist-researcher professor Mahbubul Haque died on Wednesday while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka at midnight past Wednesday. He was 76. Mahbubul Haque was suffering

‘Shesher Kobita’ promotes reading habit

Shawdesh Desk; Photographer Fouzia Jahan has portrayed characters from Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s renowned novel ‘Shesher Kobita’ to promote reading habits among youths in her first solo exhibition under way

Theatre fest features works of Nazrul, his life

Shawdesh Desk: Cultural organisation Bashori lifted the curtain on a seven-day theatre festival featuring theatrical works of Kazi Nazrul Islam and plays on him at the Nilima Ibrahim Auditorium of

Photographs offer glimpses of mountaineering adventures

Shawdesh Desk: Mountaineers have depicted their memories of thrilling mountaineering expeditions through photographs in an ongoing exhibition under way at the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy in the capital. The audience can