Ekushey Padak–winning children’s poet Sukumar Barua has died, marking the end of an era in Bengali juvenile literature. He passed away at 6:55 a.m. on Friday at JK Memorial Hospital in Gahira, in the Rauzan upazila of Chattogram, after a prolonged battle with multiple age-related ailments. He was 88, according to family and hospital sources. […]

Dhaka – Two of Bangladesh’s most prominent cultural organisations, Chhayanaut and Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi, were recently subjected to violent attacks, highlighting deep-seated tensions between the country’s Islamic and Bengali identities. The assaults, which included arson and vandalism, targeted offices in Dhaka between 18–19 December, leaving behind a trail of destruction, including damaged musical instruments, burnt […]