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The Quiet Radicalism of Zainul’s Famine Sketches

Farhana Rahman · September 29, 2026

Stone That Remembers: Public Monuments After 1971

Tanvir Hasan · September 28, 2026

Light on the River: A New Generation of Documentary Photographers

Nusrat Jahan · September 27, 2026

Film

Why Ritwik Ghatak Still Unsettles Us

Arif Chowdhury · September 26, 2026

The Street as Stage: Protest Theatre in Dhaka

Farhana Rahman · September 25, 2026

Reading the Margins: Little Magazines and Dissent

Tanvir Hasan · September 24, 2026

Color After Abstraction

Nusrat Jahan · September 23, 2026

Archive as Argument

Arif Chowdhury · September 22, 2026

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Film

Why Ritwik Ghatak Still Unsettles Us

Arif Chowdhury · September 26, 2026

The Festival Circuit and Its Discontents

Short Films, Long Shadows

Literature

Reading the Margins: Little Magazines and Dissent

Tanvir Hasan · September 24, 2026

Translation as Criticism

The Critic’s Burden

Painting

The Quiet Radicalism of Zainul’s Famine Sketches

Farhana Rahman · September 29, 2026

Color After Abstraction

Folk Motifs in the Modern Canvas

Photography

Light on the River: A New Generation of Documentary Photographers

Nusrat Jahan · September 27, 2026

Archive as Argument

The Ethics of the Flood Photograph

Sculpture

Stone That Remembers: Public Monuments After 1971

Tanvir Hasan · September 28, 2026

Terracotta and the Temple Walls

Novera Ahmed and the Body in Space

Theatre

The Street as Stage: Protest Theatre in Dhaka

Farhana Rahman · September 25, 2026

Jatra’s Long Afterlife

Selim Al Deen’s Theatre of Memory