The 54th anniversary of Bangladesh’s hard-won Victory Day is being celebrated in grand style at Suhrawardy Udyan, under the stewardship of the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy and with the initiative of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs. This two-day festival, known as the ‘Victory Festival’, honours the millions of brave soldiers whose sacrifices secured the nation’s independence. […]

In the annals of Bangladesh’s modern musical history, the name of Firoz Sai occupies a singular and revered place. Emerging during the transformative decades of the 1970s and 1980s, when Bangladeshi music was searching for new idioms and identities, Firoz Sai forged a distinctive path by blending folk traditions and spiritual philosophy with the emerging […]

More than five decades after Bangladesh’s Liberation War, the songs broadcast by the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra continue to resonate with undiminished emotional power. These were not merely songs created for artistic expression; they were instruments of resistance, morale boosters for freedom fighters, and a unifying voice for a nation struggling to break free from […]

For Dhaka’s music aficionados, this year has proved particularly disappointing. One after another, concerts have been abruptly cancelled at the last minute, leaving artists, audiences, and organisers alike frustrated and dissatisfied. The most recent incident occurred on 13 December, when the highly anticipated performance by Pakistani singer Atif Aslam was suddenly called off. The news […]

On a Friday evening in Dhanmondi, the space in front of Russian House slowly transformed into a living archive of Bangladesh’s modern music history. As dusk settled, familiar faces from different generations of the country’s music scene began to arrive—Nakib Khan, Samina Chowdhury, Rafiqul Alam, Kabir Bakul, Mehreen, alongside younger artists who have grown up […]