From Pakistan’s attempts to suppress Rabindra Sangeet to the latest effort to deface his portrait in Dhaka, Rabindranath Tagore has repeatedly been turned into a proxy for competing ideas of national ...

The Bornomala Musical Night & Fall Fair aims to connect the region's Bangladeshi-American community through music and culture ...

Dhaka, Oct. 14 -- Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Wednesday directed officials to take steps to promote Bangladesh's culture and heritage among the younger generation and encourage children to read ...

The Bangladesh Ministry of Cultural Affairs has launched an ambitious anthology film project titled “Remembering Monsoon Revolution,” selecting eight accomplished directors to create works that will ...

On a wall, a name becomes an identity. Over a beat, words become a voice. On an open floor, movement becomes a language. For Bijoya Das, known in the graffiti scene as Bijoygraff and in rap as Young E ...

In the courtyard of the house of Ganesh Chandra Mandal, there is little open space anywhere, but there are vegetables planted everywhere. For years, Mandal, 65, has grown indigenous vegetables — okra, ...

Activists and human rights groups in Bangladesh are raising alarms over the government's culture of impunity for human rights abusers, as detailed in the U.S. State Department’s recently released ...

Outside's December 2009 issue was all about adventure altruism, featuring icons who are changing the world. Surfer Kahana Kalama and his buddy Russell Brownley, a very talented young filmmaker and ...

Bangladesh can generate enormous excitement around international football, but inconsistent domestic competitions, ...

The refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, a town in south-eastern Bangladesh, are home to nearly 1m people from Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic minority. No family is without its own first-hand account of the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...