Today is 21 February, International Mother Language Day. A language
memorial would be inaugurated at Deshpriyo Park in Kolkata this
afternoon by Mamata Banerjee, the Chief
Minister of West
Bengal. On this memorial, a unique method applied to pay homage to the
pioneers of Bangla language - from the ancient poets of Charyapada to
Bipradas, Ishwar Gupta, Dinabandhu Mitra, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar,
Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Atul Prasad Sen, Rajanikanta
Sen, Bimal Kar, Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Bimal Mitra, Ashapurna
Debi, Satyajit Roy, Annada Shankar Roy etc.
memorial would be inaugurated at Deshpriyo Park in Kolkata this
afternoon by Mamata Banerjee, the Chief
Minister of West
Bengal. On this memorial, a unique method applied to pay homage to the
pioneers of Bangla language - from the ancient poets of Charyapada to
Bipradas, Ishwar Gupta, Dinabandhu Mitra, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar,
Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Atul Prasad Sen, Rajanikanta
Sen, Bimal Kar, Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, Bimal Mitra, Ashapurna
Debi, Satyajit Roy, Annada Shankar Roy etc.
A revolving stage is there beside the memorial where the function
would be held.
The language memorial in Kolkata is the first of its kind. --
A. B.
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