Amar Ekushey Book Fair begins 1 February
Shawdesh desk: The Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2024 will begin on the Bangla Academy premises and at Suhrawardy Udyan in Dhaka on 1 February. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled ReadMore
Poet Jasimuddin’s 121st birth anniversary today
Shawdesh desk: The 121st birth anniversary of poet and litterateur Jasimuddin, widely revered as the ‘Palli Kobi’, is being observed on Monday. The poet was born on this day in ReadMore
Poet Abu Bakar Siddique dies
Shawdesh desk: Poet Abu Bakar Siddique died at a hospital in Khulna city Thursday morning. He was 91. Abu Bakar, also father of ex-president Erahad’s second wife Bidisha Ershad, breathed ReadMore
AL pledges to protect journalists from torture, intimidation
Shawdesh Desk: Ruling Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina has pledged to make arrangements so that journalists in Bangladesh do not face torture, intimidation, or false cases, if ReadMore
The pursuit of happiness
Shawdesh desk: From cradle to death life tends us to be reminiscent ,reminiscence of all the momentssaturating on a canvas named ‘memory’.Among all the wave of emotions we ever experience ReadMore
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 ReadMore
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 ReadMore
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 ReadMore
