[lg policy] Bangla must be used in all spheres Published: 00:00, Feb 23, 2019 | Updated: 23:35, Feb 22, 2019 THE use of Bangla in all spheres of life is still limited to empty rhetoric as two Supreme Court directives and the Bengali Language Introduction Act 1987 remain largely unimplemented. But people from all walks of life, both at home and abroad, on February 21, observed Shaheed Dibas or International Mother Language Day, paying homage to the martyrs of the 1952 language movement. It needs to be noted that at the government level, disregard for the language has been blatant, belying the spirit of the language movement of 1952. For this negligence, as New Age reported on Thursday, academics blamed the apathy of the ruling elite to introduce a policy for language development. Different businesses display signs written in English across the country in defiance of the court order. Academics, therefore, urged the government to take pragmatic steps to ensure the use of Bangla in all sphe

Harold Schiffman haroldfs at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 15:51:10 UTC 2019


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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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