Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi

Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi
বাংলাদেশ উদীচী শিল্পীগোষ্ঠী
Formation 1968
Founder Satyen Sen, Ranesh Das Gupta
Type Cultural
Headquarters Dhaka
Location
  • 14/2 Topkhana Road, Dhaka
Fields Music, Drama, Dance, Recitation, Painting and literature
Official language
Bangla, English
Website udichi.org.bd

Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ উদীচী শিল্পীগোষ্ঠী) is the largest cultural organisation in Bangladesh. The organisation's goal is the struggle to build what it deems a just, free, and equal society. It was organised in East Pakistan by revolutionary novelists Satyen Sen, Ranesh Das Gupta along with numerous youths in 1968, and through 1971 it operated a cultural campaign. At the opening of the Bangladesh Liberation War, its members fought for independence. In 2013, the organisation was awarded the Ekushey Padak, the country's most prestigious award. 1999 Jessore bombings by Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh, in which 2 time bombs killed 10 people and injure another 150, was a terrorist attack on Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi (see list of massacres in Bangladesh.