'All I could think of was protecting our mother tongue'
‘All I could think of was protecting our mother tongue’ Mohammad Ali Akanda Our Correspondent, Mymensingh Our Correspondent, Mymensingh Language veteran Mohammad Ali Akanda is 93 now. When the Language Movement got underway in erstwhile East Pakistan, Akanda was a still a student of Dhaka University. As the wave of protests shook the capital, he could not keep himself from being swept by its promise. "At a meeting in the campus in the first week of February, we were asked to return to our localities and organise," Akanda told this corres...
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