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Spirit of Language Movement on the wane

2021-02-21 12:00:00

Financial Express: What are the long-term impacts of the language movement?Ahmad Rafique: There were two phases of the language movement. The first phase was in...

Language heroes and our nationhood

2021-02-21 12:00:00

There are literally no nations in the world, the movement of whose people's struggle to save their mother tongue eventually turned into a national struggle...

February 21, 1952 From prison

2021-02-21 12:00:00

We spent all of 21st full of anxiety, worrying about what was happening. At night the guards on duty told us that there had been...

The need for a language policy

2021-02-21 12:00:00

Language plays a crucial role in society, as it is not only a mode of communication but also a way of life. It also bears...

Random thoughts on the occasion of Ekushey February

2018-02-21 12:00:00

History was on the making when students in Dhaka, capital of erstwhile East Pakistan, brought out processions on February 21, 1952, demanding Bengali as a...

International Mother Language Day - its significance & glory

2018-02-21 00:00:00

Since 2000, February 21 is observed globally as the International Mother Language Day. This follows the decision made at the 30th General Conference of the...

Ekushey: A guiding philosophy for any people's movement

2018-02-21 00:00:00

The Bengali Language Movement which gave birth to the incident of 21st February in 1952, known popularly as Ekushey, sixty six years ago was a...