The songs we hear no more
It was the wedding of the granddaughter of famous folk lyricist Abdul Karim, when all the songs that were sung there were Hindi numbers from...
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Bangla Language Movement - A Synopsis of Events
Bangla Language Day, popularly known as Ekushe (21) February, is one of the most significant days, not in Bangladesh only,...
Thursday 3pm 21st February 1952 The alphabet bleeds
The fight between the students and the police forces went on and on. But the situation reached its darkest phase when, around...
Ekushey February - What really happened on the day
While recommending to the readers the must-read work of Badruddin Umar titled ‘Language Movement and the then Politics...
Ekushey - Cultural synthesis in formation and evolution of political identity
Who we are? Why we are the way we are? Who we want to be? Such and other questions on identity are important. Wars are fought...
From Ekushey to Now
There is always a tendency, in the way that history is told, to encapsulate entire movements or great struggles within one...
Ekushey Prabhat Pheri – then and now
Every year 21 February comes into our lives to remind us of the glorious Language Movement of 1952, the supreme sacrifice...
Bangla the core of our national identity
The following presentation was made by the late Enayetullah Khan, at an assembly of the Asian Study Group in 2004 I have...
