Through my work I have always tried to represent the Chakmas, their lifestyle, their struggles, their pains,” says Kanak Chanpa Chakma in a zoom call from the Dhanmondi neighbourhood in Dhaka. Kanak ...

Bangladesh is blessed with a rich cultural heritage. ... The indigenous roots of various aspects of Bengali culture are often denied or downplayed. ... Chakma, Garo, Marma, Mro Tripura ...

VietNamNet Bridge – "Female artists in Bangladesh today are no longer confined to their homes. They enjoy an equal position with male colleagues," said Kanak Chanpa Chakma, a painter renowned globally ...

The Unesco Dhaka Office today launched a book titled "Of Roots and Heritage: Tales from the Hills -- Chakma and Tripura Communities in Bangladesh," featuring stories in four languages, including ...

The UWA Bangladesh Community, an organization of Bangladeshi students, staff, and alamni of the University of Western Australia (UWA), gave a warm welcome Dr Amit Chakma, the recently appointed ...

Paintings of two Bangladeshi artists have been selected for the UNESCO exhibition to be held to mark the International Women’s Day next month at its headquarters in Paris.

A Vermont wood carver and a Bangladeshi ... including three scripts of indigenous peoples in Bangladesh: the Mro, Marma, and Chakma. ... Each writing system tells the tale of its culture's ...

The Bangladeshi government agreed to take back the Chakma refugees in Tripura and rehabilitate them. In 2003, however, it was reported that the government had stopped giving rations to 65,000 ...

Kalpana Chakma, missing since June 12, 1996, is often considered the first of many recent victims of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh. Twenty-three years ago, Kalpana and her two brothers ...