interviews

The Life of the Hill People Comes to Life through the Brush of a Young Artist

BBC Bangla – 07 Feb 2023

Featured for illustrating the history of the 1962 Kaptai Dam displacement and its impact on the Indigenous peoples of the CHT.

The Prothom Alo – 31/12/2023

In 2023, I was featured on an article of the Prothom Alo again as one of the inspiring youths of 2023, originally titled as ” ” (People Who Made 2023 Remarkable Through Their Achievements) for achieving the award of the International Art Contest for Minority Artists Working with Intersectionality Themes by OHCHR.

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The Daily Star – 17/01/2022

Featured on the Daily Star, one of the leading newspapers in Bangladesh for my artistic evolution through the facebook page ‘Tufan’s Artbin’

Link: https://www.thedailystar.net/life-living/news/tufan-and-his-art-2941656

The Prothom Alo – 27/03/2022

Featured on the Prothom Alo, one of the oldest and most popular newspapers in Bangladesh, highlighted my artistic journey on social media depicting the unseen stories of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The article is titled in Bangla ” ” (Tufan, a young artist from Khagrachari, captures the essence of life in the hills through his paintings.)

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The Business Standard – 19/05/2024

Featured on The Business Standard for bringing forward the Indigenous peoples stories of the Chittagong Hill Tracts through social media.

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The Global Voice – 16/10/2021

The Global Voice wrote about my work on the Kaptai Dam tragedy (1962) with the title- “Indigenous artist depicts the hidden history behind the creation of Bangladesh’s Kaptai Lake” that displaced over 100,000 Indigenous peoples.

Link: https://globalvoices.org/2021/10/16/indigenous-artist-depicts-the-hidden-history-behind-the-creation-of-bangladeshs-kaptai-lake/