Colours of dreams paint real-life aspirations

An unspoken lively dialogue between tradition and modernity it looks like in an art carnival portraying real-life aspirations in paint-and-brush works. The very theme of the show --'Hridoyer Ronge Shopno Saje' -- is self-explanatory. With over seventy Bangladeshi painters participating, the exhibition was arranged in Dhaka's Safiuddin Shilpalay few days...

The declining clout of American empire

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it", said George Santayana, a great American philosopher. Gone are the days of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon the Great and the likes. Preserving and protecting an empire today has become more complex and difficult than...