<span style="color: #222222;">An exhibition of the works of Bangladeshi artist Rokeya Sultana was opened for public viewing in Dhaka on Wednesday to commemorate 50 years of India-Bangladesh friendship. The exhibition was launched at the Indian Cultural Centre, Gulshan in Dhaka by eminent historian, writer and Chair of the 1971 Genocide Torture Archive and Museum Professor Muntassir Mamoon and the High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh Vikram Doraiswami.  The dignitaries also launched a monograph on Rokeya Sultana's works produced by the Bengal Foundation in collaboration with the artist.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The event in Dhaka is a curtain raiser for the first standalone show of the artworks of Rokeya Sultana in India, which will open on October 23 in New Delhi's prestigious Lalit Kala Academy. The exhibition of artworks will also travel to Kolkata in December 2021 and is being fully hosted by ICCR, said the press release issued by the High Commission of India..</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This exhibition traces the artist's fascinating trajectory from her years as student in Shantiniketan, trained under the guidance of Somnath Hore, Sanat Kar, and Lalu Prasad Shaw to the flowering of her artistic career in Bangladesh with Safiuddin Ahmed and Mohammad Kibria among her mentors.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Rokeya Sultana is an award-winning Bangladeshi printmaker and painter. She obtained her Masters degree in Fine Arts from Vishwa Bharati, Shantiniketan under an ICCR scholarship in 1983.</span>