May 28 and Azerbaijan: Freedom Goes Through River of Blood
By Shazia Anwer Cheema
“Freedom will never be obtained through crying and lamenting; it will only come through hard work….No nation has ever secured it overnight; a sensible man will not despair, but work even harder,” said Karel Havlicek, who was a politician and writer and a member of the Czech delegation in 1848 which hoped to establish a provisional government for Bohemia under a federal Austria.
I had always been a student of linguistics, semiotics, and philosophy of Communication therefore, understand that struggle for the survival of national identity plays a pivotal role in the journey of vernacular to a full-fledged language. Havlicek believes national identity does not simply involve ‘being Czech’, rather it needs building the nation according to certain principles.