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Beauty pageants as a century-old illusion

Alisha Pradhan

Beauty pageants today present themselves as platforms for women's empowerment, advocacy, and philanthropy. Yet their origins tell a far less progressive story. Pageants were created by men, for men, as spectacles to entertain and profit-not to uplift women. A format born at a time when women could not vote, own property, or access higher education ...

Faults with our art sector: Glancing through a curator's lens

A curator’s reflection on systemic gaps, institutional apathy and a hopeful blueprint of the visual art sector of Bangladesh.

Alisha Pradhan

Faults with our art sector: Glancing through a curator's lens

In the final days of July, amidst the monsoon-soaked serenity of Dhaka, the Embassy of Japan bore witness to a grand culmination; a convergence of culture, diplomacy and visual storytelling, through the resplendent closing of the nine-day-long art exhibition titled “Origins of Vision.” This monumental undertaking, a joint collaboration between HerNet Fine Arts and the Embassy ...

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