Literature

A poet of resilience and cultural riches

Shawdesh dEsk: In the vast tapestry of world literature, there are those literary luminaries who, despite being lesser-known on the global stage, shine brilliantly in their own right. One such

Poet Asad Chowdhury dies

Shawdesh Desk; Ekushey Padak-winning poet Asad Chowdhury died at a hospital in Canada early Thursday (Canada local time). He was 80. The poet ‘died at 3:03am Canada time’ and ‘at 1:03pm Bangladesh

Picasso masterpiece to fetch $120 mn in November auction: Sotheby’s

Shawdesh desk: The November auction of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the late Spanish painter’s “Femme a la montre” from 1932, is expected to fetch at least $120 million, Sotheby’s announced

Driftwood art exhibition by sculptor AA Rasha inaugurated in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi

Shawdesh desk: A weeklong solo exhibition of driftwood artworks of sculptor Akhtar Ahmed Rasha highlighting Bangladesh’s Liberation War, women’s empowerment, and nature began at Safiuddin Shilpalay in Dhaka’s Dhanmondi on

Bir Shrestha Nur Mohammad’s 52nd death anniversary Tuesday

Shawdesh desk: The 52nd death anniversary of Bir Shrestha Nur Mohammad Sheikh will be observed at Nur Mohammad Nagar in Chandibarpur union under Sadar upazila of the district in a

Kazi Nazrul’s death anniv today

Shawdesh Desk: Today is the 47th anniversary of the death of national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. The death anniversary of Nazrul, widely known as the rebel poet, is observed in

British Museum recovers some of 2,000 stolen items

Shawdesh dEsk: About 2,000 items are thought to have been stolen from the British Museum, but some of the missing treasures have started to be recovered, chairman George Osborne has

82nd death anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore today

Shawdesh Desk: The 82nd death anniversary of Biswakabi Rabindranath Tagore, who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as arts of Indian subcontinent with contextual modernism, is being observed today.