Significant of 21st February
The 21st February and Creativity muzahid billah
There are some movements in history whose events decide not only the fate of the present, but of all time to come, setting the stage for the emergence of the free spirit of man and his realization of the ends of his creation. These events are shaped by the inevitable forces of history, and they take a clear dialectical pattern of conflicts involving good and evil, justice and injustice, freedom and bondage, truth and falsehood. And in course of time these historical movements take on other dimensions as well, sometimes transferring their significance on to a purely symbolic realm. Through a strange transvaluation which only history can explain, these events get firmly entrenched in popular imagination, supplying matter even for folklore. Such movements of apocalypse are not numerous in the history of nations; but when they take place they become more than mere historical events- they become occasions for a celebration of life, its vital principles and its uncompromising truth..
In the long history of the land and the people of Bangladesh; there have not been many occasions of unmixed joy. Our proudest events have often been weighed down by incalculable loss and suffering, our victories and our celebrations have brought forth more tears than laughter. But the proud people go on fighting, turning their songs of sorrow into chants of victory. tFtteimmortal 21st February reminded us every year that death is not always the end, but can also be a great beginning; that it is not always a sad waste, but can also be a matter of the deepest glory.
The events of the 21st February 1952 are matters of history now, and need no recapitulation here. What they represented in symbolic terms however, was the reawakening of a great nation when confronted with its first real challenge in a new geographical entity. This reawakening involved not simply a reassertion of its political will, or its maturity as a nation, but also a
There are some movements in history whose events decide not only the fate of the present, but of all time to come, setting the stage for the emergence of the free spirit of man and his realization of the ends of his creation. These events are shaped by the inevitable forces of history, and they take a clear dialectical pattern of conflicts involving good and evil, justice and injustice, freedom and bondage, truth and falsehood. And in course of time these historical movements take on other dimensions as well, sometimes transferring their significance on to a purely symbolic realm. Through a strange transvaluation which only history can explain, these events get firmly entrenched in popular imagination, supplying matter even for folklore. Such movements of apocalypse are not numerous in the history of nations; but when they take place they become more than mere historical events- they become occasions for a celebration of life, its vital principles and its uncompromising truth..
In the long history of the land and the people of Bangladesh; there have not been many occasions of unmixed joy. Our proudest events have often been weighed down by incalculable loss and suffering, our victories and our celebrations have brought forth more tears than laughter. But the proud people go on fighting, turning their songs of sorrow into chants of victory. tFtteimmortal 21st February reminded us every year that death is not always the end, but can also be a great beginning; that it is not always a sad waste, but can also be a matter of the deepest glory.
The events of the 21st February 1952 are matters of history now, and need no recapitulation here. What they represented in symbolic terms however, was the reawakening of a great nation when confronted with its first real challenge in a new geographical entity. This reawakening involved not simply a reassertion of its political will, or its maturity as a nation, but also a