The highly anticipated seven-day Jatra Festival begins today at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, celebrating the rich tradition of Jatra Pala, a folk theatre form deeply woven into Bengal's cultural ...

The main article, "Lalon- Baul or Fakir", was presented by A-Al Mamun, professor and researcher of Rajshahi University. The director general of Bangla Academy was Dr. Mohammad Azam; Farooq Wasif, ...

The partnership will enhance the country’s capacity to explore and develop its offshore resources, bringing with it significant benefits for PNG’s economy and the industry. Mr Maladina signed the ...

Speakers at a discussion in the Dhaka city on Saturday said that removing the fakir identity from Lalon and introducing him to people as baul was part of cultural politics. They also said that people ...

"Lalon Smaran Utsab", a three-day event commemorating Fakir Lalon Shah on his 134th death anniversary ended on Friday at the mystic bard's shrine in Kushtia's Chheuria. The festival started in the ...

DHAKA, Oct 19, 2024 (BSS) – Law and Cultural Affairs Adviser Professor Dr Asif Nazrul today said that the practice and research of the philosophy of humanitarian based social reformer and great ...

In honour of the 135th death anniversary of Fakir Lalon, the spiritual mystic of the subcontinent and the Baul king, a three-day Lalon festival has been organized in Chheuriya, Kumarkhali, Kushtia.

Fisheries and Livestock Adviser Farida Akhter has said Fakir Lalon Shah – the renowned Bengali philosopher, Baul saint, songwriter, and thinker – strongly opposed all forms of discrimination. "He ...

had spoken against all sorts of discrimination 134 years ago," the adviser said on Thursday night while speaking at Lalon Akhra at Chheuriya of Kumarkhali in Kushtia district as the chief guest, ...