Intâl Mother Language Day observed in London
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DHAKA, Feb 22, 2021 (BSS) – Bangladesh High Commission, London in partnership with UK National Commission for UNESCO commemorated the Mujib Year, Bangla Language Martyrsâ Day and ‘International Mother Language Day’ proposing that âBangla Language Martyrsâ Day 21 February be declared by the Greater London Authority as the Greater London Multilingualism and Diversity Day”.
British Ministers, MPs, senior UN and Commonwealth officials and ambassadors of different countries along with the British-Bangladeshi community paid deep tribute to 1952 language martyrsâ and Bangladesh’s Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman for their sacrifice to protect Bangla.
Thirteen embassies, high commissions and British institutions including High Commissioners and Ambassadors of Cyprus, India, the Maldives, Saint Christopher of and Nevis, Sri Lanka, Georgia, Honduras, Moldova, Serbia, North Macedonia, R
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BD mission in New Delhi observes Int. Mother Language Day
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NEW DELHI, Feb 21, 2021 (BSS) – Bangladesh mission in New Delhi today observed “Shaheed Dibash” (Language Martyrs’ Day) and International Mother Language Day in a befitting manner commemorating the supreme sacrifices of language movement veterans in 1952 to establish Bangla as the state language.
The day’s programmes heralded with hoisting of the National Flag at half-mast in front of the mission by Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran in the morning.
Later, a “Pravat Ferry” (morning procession) led by the High Commissioner and his spouse was brought out at the Chancery premises.
BhashaAndolan - A Precursor to the 1971 war of Liberation
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19th February, 2021 06:30:52
The first major conflict between erstwhile East and West Pakistan occurred over language and February 21 is a milestone in that struggle. This date is commemorated worldwide as International Mother Language Day, and draws its significance from the ‘BhashaAndolon’ or language movement in which the people of erstwhile East Pakistan were demanding equal status for the Bengali language. The BashaAndolan was the culmination of systematic negation and nullification of the ‘Bengali’ language the regional identity of Bengal.
Nearly 98% of the population, and virtually 100% of the urbanized, educated population, in East Pakistan comprised a single ethnic group of Bengalis, constituting about 55% of Pakistan’s overall population. Despite this the central government of Pakistan started the unilateral use of Urdu in moneyorder forms, postal stamps, currencies, coins, railway ticke