Police disperse crowd after assuring event would feature only classical music, not dance

Yet another less told story surrounds the name itself.

Hence, first abandoned by a prince, and then shunned away as inauspicious, Lalbagh Kella remained a work-in-progress, forever incomplete!

This essay is largely about the pictorial depiction of the once imposing south-western bastion of the Lalbagh Fort in Old Dhaka, along with a brief history of the fort.

When part of an age-old heritage site is wrecked, for whatsoever reason, you expect individuals and groups to be up in arms, protesting against the destruction of a symbol that was supposed to have been left untouched by modern trappings and trimmings.

High Court directs authorities concerned to stop construction of structures around the national heritage Lalbagh Fort within 24 hours.