No one said earning a Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) would be easy. After all, art is anything but a linear process of creation. It zigzags through tumultuous periods of unease, delicate uncertainties, and perpetual anxieties, along with quite a mouthful of self-induced negativity.

At least seven people receive bullet injuries as the managing committee president of a Bagerhat school opens fire on them allegedly over the election of the school’s management committee.

20 years ago when the 51-year-old teacher, with a degree in fine arts, launched her art school for slum children in Nangloi in the western part of the city.