Essex Indians registered charity 1186579 celebrated International Mother Tongue Day last weekend with heartfelt respect to the students of Dhaka University who lost their lives in the language revolution.
Reverend David Ibioyo from Basildon Side by Side was our chief guest. The program was conceptualised by Arpita and anchored by Ballari and Sulagna. The concert featured the significance of ‘Bhasha Divash’, the importance of learning own mother tongue ( matribhasha) and its values in generation next and the cultural unity in diversity of several international languages.
While Arena, Ballari, Suman and Arpita recited immortal poetries, Annika, Subham, Shivam, Sumana, Paramita, Arya, Basabdutta presented relevant songs related to Bhasha Divash. Aric talked about Bhasha divash , Sreyoshi presented ‘ moder garab moder asha ‘ while Anirban with Ujjwal, Arya and Samyak presented the traditional song ‘ Ekushe February’ and a self composed song ‘ Bangla akash bangla batash’
Sujata unfolded the culture and language of the state ‘ Tripura’, Chitra vividly presented the paithani art of ‘Maharashtra’ and Ujjwal described and presented the culture of ‘Jharkhand’.
Meera presented the contribution of ‘Russian’ language. Piyal exchanged a linguistic debate with his son Moho. Arya, Samyak and Rijula presented the advantage of ‘ being multilingual’ and its effect on ‘ family bonding’.
Lavanya presented a classical traditional dance and star musician Mayukhjit presented his flute performance with kirtan ‘ rai jago’
The evening ended with a mouthwatering dinner prepared by Arpita, Anirban and Sujata and a heartfelt tribute to Bengali pride Bappida with ‘ Chalte Chalte’, the life philosophy song by Arya, Ujjwal and Anirban.
Trustees thanked all guests for their sincere homage on bhasha divash.
