Yunus presents graffiti artbook to US officials

Chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday presented an artbook on graffiti on the roadside walls in Bangladesh to a visiting US delegation during a meeting at the state guest house Jamuna in Dhaka. The chief adviser commissioned the artbook immediately after he was sworn in as the head of the interim government on August 8. The book carries photos of some of the finest art works drawn by the students and young people on the walls of Dhaka and other cities and towns marking the fall of autocratic regime in the July-August student-people uprising. Professor Yunus spoke about the historic significance of the graffiti, which depicted emotions, hopes, and aspirations of the students and youth who participated in the protests against the fascist Sheikh Hasina regime, defying the brute forces. ‘I will request you to look at the walls of Dhaka. These graffiti still exist. They were drawn not just after the revolution. Students defied the government forces to draw graffiti during the protests in July,’ Yunus told the US delegates. Dhaka became the Graffiti Capital of the world after young painters turned its walls into powerful canvases. They have written slogans and poetry to deliver powerful messages. The...