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editor's note

Towards an imaginative being / becoming

Human being is a social-ontological construct. Seen through a frame put forward in complicity to the modernist doxa, it is nothing short of a reductive conceptual scheme. Read

writes MUSTAFA ZAMAN

postscript

Capturing historical moments to make history: Homage to Rashid Talukdar

Rashid Talukdar is no more and his way of capturing and making history through the lens is all that remains. The photographer was laid to rest on October 25, 2011, Dhaka. Though Read

writes SHAKHAWAT TIPU

Features

CROSS OVER: Indo-Bangladesh Artists' Residency and Exhibition

The palpable excitement experienced by the group of twenty artists from Bangladesh and India who gathered together during a CrossOver, not only in terms of the geographic borders but also Read

writes SUSHMA K BAHL

Manik Pir plays as a subaltern trickster: Grandiloquent tales of extra-scriptural Imagination

In isolated rural pockets of the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal, sprawling across an international border separating western Bangladesh and southern West Bengal (India), a Sufi culture-hero popularly known as Manik Read

writes SYED JAMIL AHMED

Contextualizing Boishakh in the urban cultural climate

The urban landscape has always been the site for cultural regeneration, re-creation and transcreation, as well as celebration of certain rediscovered rites. The cultural rhythm that grows out of the Read

writes GOLAM MORTUJA

Shumon Ahmed: Home Land

Photographer Shumon Ahmed lives and works in Dhaka, Bangladesh; a country plagued by extreme weather conditions but equally resourced by fertile land. Since a boy, Ahmed has watched his mother Read

writes RAJESH PUNJ

The Hajj and its spiritual connotations

The Muslim religious pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the hajj, satisfies the fifth and last pillar of the faith. From its tradition as a pillar of Islam, the word Hajj Read

writes SELINA BEGUM

Celebrating Existence in Impudence

They walk, dance, lift their heavy bodies up into the air, they migrate to the spaces that are conceivable and inconceivable, they exude the grandeur of transcendental ecstasy and they Read

writes JOHNYML

depart file

Art Summit: Culling from the best for the world

As the inauguration day of the first ever art summit draws closer, the organizers alongside artists and art connoisseurs are all bucked up to see how the vision of organizing Read

Summit-speak

Mustafa Zaman: Let's start with a brief note on why Samdani Art Foundation has taken this initiative to organize the first ever art summit in Bangladesh and how the work Read

interregnum

Against the grain aesthetics: Art during the emergency in Nepal

The contemporary art scene of Nepal covers a wide range of art activities, exhibitions, and events. Since it is impossible to analyze the entire range of those manifold art practices, Read

writes ARCHANA THAPA

singled out

Manasha: Detecting the loci of an indigenous rite

Catastrophe/trauma is a typical property in the multifarious streams of Bangladeshi indigenous performances whose foundational origin is ritual. When the reason of a physical action be that a rite or Read

writes SHAHMAN MOISHAN

contoured

Social activist artist Shuvaprasanna

Though most artists create, compelled by an inner urge and each creation is unique, it is also essentially a reflection of the dynamics of life in a given time, space Read

writes SUSHMA K BAHL

locational

Of Place and Difference: Sufi shrine as the site for collective ecstasy and healing

Mazar, a diverse spatio-temporal manifestation of an alter-reality, is a socio-archaeological construct and resides between conscious and unconscious responses of the community to issues of collective healing, selfhood and spiritual Read