Taken at Shaheed Minar on Feb 21, 2012.
February 21, known as Ekushey February, is a special day in the history of this country. On this day in 1952, students at Dhaka University rose up against an edict (by West Pakistan) to impose Urdu as the national language on us, Bengali-speaking people. The rest, as they say, is history.
Ekushey has turned into a massive observance. Everyone brings flowers to remember the martyrs. I try to come here on this day, not the least because my father was among those who demonstrated - and was wounded - in 1952 when he was a student at Dhaka University.
As I was wandering there, I kept on thinking, is this the nation they would have liked to see? To be proud of?
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012