New Delhi: The Bangabandhu-Bapu Digital Exhibition, honouring the lives and legacies of the two nations’ founding fathers, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Mahatma Gandhi, commenced in Dhaka on Saturday last.
The event also marked the commemoration of the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhiji and the Mujib Borsho celebrations of bilateral relations between India and Bangladesh in a unique thematic approach.
The exhibition was inaugurated in Bangladesh Shilpa Kala Academy on Saturday in Dhaka. Senior Indian and Bangladeshi officials were present on the occasion.
The exhibition, thrown open for the people on September 26, will last until October 11 and then travel to Chattogram, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna, and Kolkata.
Earlier, the exhibition was virtually inaugurated by the Prime Ministers of Bangladesh and India, Sheikh Hasina Wajed and Narendra Modi, during the India-Bangladesh Virtual Summit in December 2020. They had also visited a specially organised exhibition in March 2021 at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.
This one-of-a-kind digital exhibition, curated by Birad Yagnik, Curator of Mahatma Gandhi Digital Museums, was also on display at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi for 45 days from December 16, 2020, to January 31, 2021.
(Venkatesh Iyer)