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She is a mother
Living in every land
Blessing her children
With her love
Which her words carry
Suckling them
With its blessed touch
Raising them
In their cadence of warmth
Giving them
All her strength
To stand upright
When tyranny’s hands
Shoot them with hatred
Mother comes out
As drops of fragrant bloom
From the deep wound
Of the heart
And fills the world
* Language Movement Day or Language Revolution Day or Bengali Language Movement Day (Bengali: ভাষা আন্দোলন দিবসBhasha
Andolôn Dibôs), which is also referred to as Language Martyrs' Day or Martyrs' Day (Bengali: শহীদ দিবস Shôhid
Dibôs), is a national day of Bangladesh to
commemorate protests and sacrifices to protect Bengali as
a national language during Bengali Language
Movement of 1952.
In
1952, Bengali students in East Pakistan rose up and protested against the
Pakistani government for declaring Urdu as the national language. The majority
of the Pakistani citizens (as of 1952), about 54% of the citizens, were Bengali. In the protest several students died
for defending the Bengali language
for themselves and for the future generations.
