Indigenous people of Joypurhat celebrated the traditional autumnal Karam festival on Wednesday by holding cultural programmes.

Festivity is in the air of Bangladesh. We celebrate heritage, culture and traditions through festivals. Festivals weave stories, values and customs connected to them.

Rabindranath Tagore's epic dance drama, Shyama, has been beautifully adapted and given an entirely new outlook by accomplished dancer Arno Kamolika in her solo Bharatnatyam production. Steering away from traditional repertoires of Bharatnatyam, this experimental piece uses this classical dance form to express the story. Arno, through her expressive dancing and facial expressions, portrays all the characters of this play as a solo performer. The production is choreographed by Jai Govinda, the artistic director of Mandala Arts and Culture.

The London Film Festival opened across the city yesterday, putting the focus on the role of women in film this year.

The second season of Eastern Bank Limited (EBL) employee music contest “Esho Mili Surey Surey” took place at Chhayanaut Sanskriti Bhaban in the capital on October 3 and 4, says a press release. The contest features 36 employees of EBL.

The season four of The Daily Star Spelling Bee Enlightened by Summit will premiere on Channel i tonight at 7:50pm. The first episode will feature contestants from Rajshahi and Khulna divisions and from Viqarunnisa Noon School &College, Dhaka.

Bangladesh's popular art and literary magazine “Kali O Kalam” started its journey from Kolkata recently. The magazine, which is in its 12th year of publication in Bangladesh, will regularly be published from Kolkata as well from now on. It is the first magazine to be published from Dhaka and Kolkata simultaneously.

The High Commission of India along with the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, is organising the 2015 edition of the 100-member Bangladesh Youth Delegation programme to India from October 4 to 11. The delegation left Dhaka for New Delhi yesterday, says a press release.

The monthly Sargam, the only regular magazine on music in the country, completed its 19th year of publication this October. Celebrating the occasion, a discussion and cultural programme was held the conference lounge of the National Press Club on October 1.

Mostofa Sarwar Farooki has become the first Bangladeshi to take the juror's position at the Asia Pacific Film Awards, to be held next month in Brisbane, Australia.

The Royal Bhutanese Embassy in Dhaka, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh National Museum, is hosting a Bhutan Film Festival from October 2 to 6, at the Kabi Sufia Kamal Auditorium, Bangladesh National Museum.

With a view to introduce children to their cultural roots, Chhayanaut has been running Shikor, a special programme for young ones, for the last eight years.

As anticipation builds up for Srijit Mukherji's upcoming film “Rajkahini” that stars Jaya Ahsan among a formidable cast of Indian cinema, a new song from the film was released on Youtube this week, starring some of the biggest names in popular Bangla music across the border from Bangladesh.

“Writings start from silence and the real enemy of writing is talking,” Joy Goswami, an acclaimed contemporary Bangali writer, said as he mixed with readers and literature enthusiasts of the port city at a programme on Friday evening.

Efat Rezowana Ria, a national award-winning artist, showcased a performance in front of Chhobir Haat on September 17 evening, protesting the closure of

What have you done to your children's old toys buried in a junky clutter in some corner of your house? Most of us would probably throw away the old toys, donate them or stockpile them in our storeroom for ever and ever.

A painting competition for underprivileged rural children was organised at Rusulpur in Gafargaon upazila on Sunday.

Sushmita Sen, the first Indian and only Bangalee-lineage woman to be crowned Miss Universe (in 1994) lit up the Hall of Fame of the Bangabandhu

It has been a year since Feroza Begum, the uncrowned queen of Nazrul Sangeet, left the earth for a better place, but her memories are ever so fresh in the hearts of those who were fortunate enough to be in her close quarters.

As part of a two-year memorandum of cultural exchange between Bangladesh and Russia, a weeklong Bangladesh Cultural Festival is being organised in the