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Rafiq Azad’s death anniv today
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on March 12, 2020
Today is the 4th death anniversary of late Ekushey Padak-winning poet and freedom fighter Rafiq Azad. Rafiq Azad was born on February 14, 1941 at...
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Anis Ahmed’s ‘Durer Janala Kachher Manush’ launched
Rakib Hasan | Updated at 10:16pm on March 07, 2020
Expatriate journalist-teacher Anis Ahmed’s collection of essays named ‘Durer Janala Kachher Manush’ was launched at a programme held at Biswa Sahitya Kendra in Banglamotor on...
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Bangla Kabita Utsab under way in Tangail
Our Correspondent . Tangail | Updated at 10:19pm on March 04, 2020
Over four hundred local poets and 60 Indian poets are participating in the 5th Bangla Kabita Utsab under way in Shaheed Smriti Pauro Udyan in...
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Mobarak Hossain Khan’s 82nd birth anniv today
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on February 27, 2020
Today is the 82nd birth anniversary of the late Independence Award and Ekushey Padak winning musicologist, musician and writer Mobarak Hossain Khan. A milad and...
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5-day book fair, cultural fest under way in Sylhet
Zaman Monir . Sylhet | Updated at 10:41pm on February 26, 2020
District Shilpakala Academy, Sylhet has organised a five-day book fair and cultural festival marking Shaheed Dibash and International Mother Language Day on its premises. The...
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Ahmed Sharif’s death anniversary today
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:15am on February 24, 2020
Today is the 21st death anniversary of late Ekushey Padak winning writer Ahmed Sharif. Ahmed Sharif, born in Patiya, Chattogram on February 13, 1921, was...
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Milton Shafi brings ‘Nibbhrite Nirbashoney’
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 11:19pm on February 19, 2020
Poet Milton Shafi’s collection of poems ‘Nibbhrite Nirbashoney’ has hit this year’s Ekushey Book Fair. The book is the third work of Shafi. His first...
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Jibanananda’s birth anniversary celebrated
Tanzil Rahaman with Anisur Rahman Shapan in Barishal | Updated at 12:58am on February 18, 2020
Admirers paid tribute to poet Jibanananda Das organising special programmes in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on his 121st birth anniversary, which was celebrated...
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Asli Erdogan acquitted
Agence France-Presse . Istanbul | Updated at 10:30pm on February 15, 2020
A Turkish court on Friday acquitted renowned novelist Asli Erdogan on charges of membership of an armed terror organisation. The court in Istanbul also acquitted...
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2-day lit conference under way at DIU
Cultural Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on February 15, 2020
A 2-day international literary conference with the theme ‘Postcolonial Perspectives: Language, Literature and Culture and the Global South’ began at the Dhanmondi campus of Daffodil...