Rashid Askari
Published in the Daily Star Suppliments, 21st February 2012/page7
Bangla
reached international heights for the first time at the hands of
Rabindranath Tagore when he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.
That a poet from a far-off land was awarded the world's most prestigious
literary accolade brought his language into global focus. For the
second time Bangla caught the attention of the world in the year 1952
when Bengali people's love of their language gave rise to a historic
movement.
