Bhasha Smritistambha

Bhasha Smritistambha
(Language Monument)
	Frontal view of Bhasha Smritistambha
Location	Deshapriya Park, Kolkata, Paschimbanga (West Bengal), India,
Designer	Subhaprasanna
Type	Memorial
Opening date	20 February 2011
Dedicated to	Bengali language authors and martyrs of Language Movements of Dhaka and Silchar.

The Bhasha Smritistambha, Language Monument), located at Deshapriya Park, Kolkata, is a memorial dedicated to the Bengali language authors and the martyrs of language movements of Dhaka and Silchar.

The monument was inaugurated by Mamata Banerjee, the then Railway Minister of India on 20 February 2011.^[1] Amala Shankar, Dwijen Mukherjee, singer Arati Mukherjee, Indrani Sen, Anup Ghoshal, Saikat Mitra, Nirmala Mishra and writer Sirshendu Mukherjee were present at the inauguration ceremony of the "Bhasa Smritistambha".^[2]

"Bhasha Smritistambha" is the second Bengali language Martyr's memorial in Kolkata after the "Bhasha Shahid Smarak", commissioned at Surendranath Park, Esplanade in 1998.^[3]

References[edit]

↑ "Language memorial inaugurated in Kolkata". Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
↑ "Language memorial inaugurated in Kolkata". Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
↑ আজ আন্তর্জাতিক মাতৃভাষা দিবস সাড়ম্বরে পালিত হচ্ছে বিশ্বের ১৮৮টি দেশে।^{[permanent dead link]}

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[1] "Language memorial inaugurated in Kolkata". Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2011.

[2] "Language memorial inaugurated in Kolkata". Archived from the original on 22 May 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2011.

[3] আজ আন্তর্জাতিক মাতৃভাষা দিবস সাড়ম্বরে পালিত হচ্ছে বিশ্বের ১৮৮টি দেশে।^{[permanent dead link]}

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v t e Bengali language movement in India
History and events	India Barak Valley Manbhum	Silchar Bengali Language Martyr's Memorial
People	Labanya Prabha Ghosh Kanailal Niyogi Tarani Debnath Sachindra Chandra Pal Birendra Sutradhar Kamala Bhattacharya
Commemoration	Ekushe Udyan Silchar railway station Shahid Minar, Shilchar Bhasha Smritistambha