Language versus Freedom

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here is no denying the fact that our beloved motherland Bangladesh has been emergent through boundless struggling before and after 21st February against misruling system of erstwhile Pakistani rulers and painstaking insurrection against all sorts of aggression predominant after 14^th August 1947. But it is a significant fact that we are solely indebted to 21st February of 1952 to fast-track the movement of freedom and consequent upon such life-threatening composure, the 26th March has been emergent as a foundation stone of a nation’s birth. 

In the next when men and women were furthering the resistance against all sorts of evil doings of the Pakistani hoarders like mistreatment, venality and discrimination, the movement of 21st February was a milestone to aggrandizement, the way how our freedom and redemption from unrestrained restlessness would be evacuated from socioeconomic life of the people. We think that we could not achieve our freedom if 21st February was not emergent in 1952. Due to the movement of this day, we have shown our agitation against the rulers of the then Pakistan. Suffice it to say, the 21st February, as a symbol of blaze illumination and uprightness for which our survival as a Bengali nation has been reflected all through the world.

In order to show rectitude in respect of our language and freedom of the country irrespective of all castes and creeds,our country has bequeathed to create resistance against the conspiracy of our survival like the people of a free state. They have strengthened the movement by degrees and being polemical, the then rulers have trespassed them and eventually they had shot them dead. This is such a movement where our heroes have laid down their lives for the cause of elevated deportment of our mother Language. In the whole world, such unprecedented movement has never been taken place. With due advantage of our mother Language, we need to be particular in carrying out responsibilities from our different situations and the state of being passionate for fruitful drudgery for the nation. But as ill luck would have it, some of ours young university and college going students are sheer from their education and as a result, they are not being able to be patriotic for the country. They are busy with unpredictable and in acceptableness of the people. We cannot anticipate such fruit age from them because their sentinels are painstakingly spending dosh for them. But they are making quintessential crimes and stigmatizing them to a great extent. After the emergence of our country as a free state, we have been passing through great hardship of ideal expedient personnel to build effective workforce in our country. If we would like to serve our country, we need to pay homage to our national heroes who have been dedicated for the cause of national prominence towards our mother language.

Like the bounded responsibilities, this year has carried out the day of language and freedom with due somber mood and prominence. We celebrate both the days’ with honour according to the heritage of the country. As the day of our mother language is mixed with our Independence Day, as it has been mixed with our blood and bone. In different climatic atmosphere of our country, new dimensions of beautified nature are reflected which is treated as the symbol of progress and prosperity in question. In every stage of development, the mainstream of realism of our mother language is see-through and inadvertent to the realm of our belief and religion. It is a significant fact that we have accepted such a trend of life, which is uniquely coherent and not related to the lively-beings of western culture. These are ultimately the vital points to save us from being stigmatized by others. Ours is a developing country and we are passing through a great perturbation against terrorism, bribing, perfidiousness and captive life and the cause of policies of misleading the people. We want all the ends of such mischievous activity from the social life. We should memorize the great sacrifice of the martyrs who had saved our mother Language by dedicating their lives. Consequent upon this, we achieved the 21st February as an ‘International Mother Language Day’ in 1999. This is a great realization in the world to show our best regards to our Bengali Language. It is a rare example in the history of mankind as there are no other records in the history of the world of scarifying such souls of our heroes for the cause of mother tongue.

In fine, if we would like to preserve the prestige of Bengali nation, we need to pay great eulogy praise to the martyrs for the cause of our mother language and freedom. To speak the truth, ours some dedicated young men have come forward to protest against the decision and aggression of the then Pakistani rulers. In the face of strong opposition, the Pakistani soldiers had killed uncountable people for their self-callous gluttony and power to suppress this nation. The two incidences are rare in the history of mankind. If we discern the history of the world, we will perceive that no nation has resurrected their blood for the cause of language movement. They had laid down their lives for the restoration of democracy and freedom of economics. Their activities are undoubtedly termed as heroic deeds. If we dedicate ourselves for the cause of equality and liberty of our country, their departed souls would be self-satisfied and effulgence. In every year, we rejoice this day by showing our homage to them and shower the flowers to the ‘memoirs of the martyrs’ in order to sanctify their great achievements contributed to the dignity of our mother Language. In this respect, a few line of the poem composed by Robert Frost is worth mentioning:

“The wood is lovely, dark and deep,

I have promises to keep

And I have miles to go before I sleep

And I have miles to go before I sleep’’