Pir who speaks textbook language
Pir (variant spelling: Peer) is purely a subcontinent concept that has etymological root in Persian language. In English, the word can be translated into saint or more specifically, holy man.
Musical versus Dance-drama
More than once I have written in this column that Bangla theatre lacks musicals though we have a reasonably long tradition of dance-drama introduced by Rabindranath Thakur.
Shouts of applause
I am not talking about any common shouts of applause that we often come across in any political meet or in any mesmerizing performance by a performing maestro—it's the youth I am talking
April 30, 2016
A Gist of 'Shakespeare Lives'
Recently, Dhaka University's Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, in collaboration with the British Council Bangladesh...