Literature

44th Kolkata Int’l Book Fair begins

Shawdesh Desk: The 44th International Kolkata Book Fair began on Tuesday at Salt Lake Central Park in Kolkata amid festivity. Kolkata Deputy High Commission and Cultural Affairs Ministry of Bangladesh

Producing drama in spirit of War of Liberation stressed

Shawdesh Desk: Theatre personalities have stressed writing, producing and stating dramas in light with spirit of the War of Liberation to inform the true national history to the younger generation

2nd National Campus Theatre Festival at Shilpakala Academy

Shawdesh Desk: The 2nd National Campus Theatre Festival 2020 got underway at the National Music and Dance Centre of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) on Friday. Government Bangla College-based theatre troupe

‘Madhu Mela’ begins on Thursday in Jashore

Shawdesh Desk: The annual ‘Madhu Mela’, marking the 196th birth anniversary of the great poet and originator of Bangla sonnets Michael Madhusudan Dutt, will begin tomorrow at the poet’s ancestral

WHO to host film festival in Geneva in May

Shawdesh Desk: The World Health Organization (WHO) will host the first-ever ‘Health for All Film Festival’ in Geneva on May 17-21 on the occasion of the 73rd World Health Assembly.

Month-long Ekushey Book Fair begins February 2

Shawdesh Desk: The month-long Ekushey Book Fair 2020 has been deferred by a day as the Election Commission shifted the date of Dhaka North and South city corporation elections to

Selim Al Deen’s death anniversary observed at JU

Shawdesh Desk: The 12th death anniversary of eminent playwright ‘Natyacharya’ Selim Al Deen was observed at Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus on Tuesday. Marking the day, Drama and Dramatics Department of

Cleanliness campaign held at Central Shaheed Minar

Shawdesh Desk: People’s Theatre Association (PTA) in cooperation with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy (BSA) held a cleanliness campaign on the Central Shaheed Minar premises on Monday. Liaquat Ali Lucky, founder of