Multilingualism is a remarkable feat that demonstrates the incredible adaptability of the human brain.

Bangla has taught us how to properly imitate our minds through words and expressions with its presence.

Abdul Karim posited that it was the Muslims who laid the foundation of the secular and romantic genre in Bengali literature.

In his foreword to Bernard Cohn’s magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India,

Buddhadeva Bose in one of his essays expresses the opinion that Bengali prose, “in less than a couple of centuries has achieved remarkable maturity.”

In 1954, when  I was admitted into the Dhaka University Bengali honours course after an interview with Dr Muhammad Shahidullah, a host of talented fellows were to be my friends in the next four years.

It is February 2002, the month of the fiftieth anniversary of our language movement.

On September 1, 1947, a group of students and faculty members at Dhaka University established Tamaddun Majlish, a cultural organization aimed at promoting the Bengali language.