Greetings Greetings !!
I wish I could write today's post in Bangla, well, in that case many wont even know why I want to write in Bangla.
For those, who has never heard of it yet, today, 21st Feb is International Motherlanguage Day !
What on earth is that ?
It is to remind you how much you love your mother language, may be you are unaware of it, but u do...
People fight for land, some for rights...
And yes, Bangladeshis fought for their language !
In 1952, in Bangladesh, when many bangla-speaking people were massacred by the Pakistani police and Army, a number of young students died !! The first ever sacrifice of life for the sake of language.
It all started when Pakistan (when we were part of it) were trying to force : "Urdu and Urdu will be the ONLY state language".
Feburary 56, We still color those roads where the procession went through.
February 57, we still honour the sacrifice, will honour FOREVER !
Feb, recent days...We proposed and UNESCO agreed and declared this 21 feb as no longer only Bangladeshi day, rather an International day. Here is the monument at Dhaka which will be flooded by thousands and thousand of flowers today!!
The Linguapax Award is presented annually on International Mother Language Day.
UNESCO sets the theme for each International Mother Language Day and also holds events at its headquarters in Paris each year.
Greetings again ! With Kadam flowers !!
This is "Kadam", yes, it is a flower !!! yes, u are right, it is a spherical shaped flower:)
Take a closer look of this unbelievably wonderful unique flower ! Kadam becomes bright yellow and but now this month it is not yet in full bloom !!
Ekhusher (for 21 ) Shuvechcha ( Greetings)
Gagan
