The month-long Jatra Registration Festival formally concluded in Dhaka on Friday (January 23) with a city procession, a closing ceremony at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, and a lifetime achievement ...

The fortnight-long “Theatre Festival on the Liberation War” featured diverse forms and different approaches of theatrical presentation. To highlight the theme of the glorious past, traditional forms, ...

A century-old manuscript of traditional jatra pala (folk theatre) has been discovered in Gopalganj, shedding new light on rich folk-cultural heritage in the region. The manuscript belongs to Binapani ...

A very old Bengali tradition is theatre, which can also be called "jatra pala" in Bangla. Out of all the places in Dhaka city -- this is what attracts people the most. Shilpakala Academy often has ...

A couple of months ago, the internet witnessed the resurfacing of Ritwik Ghatak’s short film Amar Lenin, rescued by the British Film Institute from the archives and subsequently restored and released ...