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- Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban or National Assembly building of Bangladesh, located in the capital Dhaka, is an architectural masterpiece and one of the largest legislative complexes in the World. It houses all parlimentary activities of Bangladesh. It was designed by the legendary architect Louis Kahn.
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- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bangla: শেখ মুজিবর রহমান) (March 17, 1920 – August 15, 1975) was a Bengali political leader in East Pakistan and the founding leader of Bangladesh. Heading the Awami League, Rahman twice served as the first President of Bangladesh and as its second Prime Minister. He is popularly referred to as Sheikh Mujib, and with the more honorary title of Bangabandhu (Friend of Bengalis). Demanding increased civil rights and provincial autonomy, Rahman became a fierce opponent of the military rule of Ayub Khan and was tried in 1968 for allegedly conspiring with the Indian government, but not convicted. At the heightening of sectional tensions, Rahman outlined a 6-point autonomy plan which was seen as separatism in West Pakistan. Despite leading his party to a major victory in the 1970 elections, Rahman was not invited to form the government. After talks broke down, Rahman was arrested. Amidst political violence and a political and guerilla campaign for independence, Indian intervention in 1971 would lead to the establishment of Bangladesh, and after his release, Rahman would assume office as prime minister. more...)
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- Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা, IPA: ['baŋla]) is an Indo-Aryan language of East South Asia, evolved from Prakrit, Pali and Sanskrit. With nearly 200 million native speakers, Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages of the world (it is ranked between four[1] and seven[2] based on the number of speakers). Bengali is the main language spoken in Bangladesh, and the second most commonly spoken language in India (after Hindi-Urdu). Along with Assamese, it is geographically the most eastern of the Indo-European languages. Owing to the Bengal renaissance in the 19th and 20th centuries, Bengali literature emerged among the richest in South Asia, and includes luminaries such as Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to be awarded a Nobel Prize. Like most other modern Indic languages, Bengali arose from the Apabhramsha melting + Bengali or Bangla (বাংলা, IPA: ['baŋla]) is an Indo-Aryan language of East South Asia, evolved from Prakrit, Pali and Sanskrit. With nearly 200 million native speakers, Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages of the world (it is ranked between four[1] and seven[3] based on the number of speakers). Bengali is the main language spoken in Bangladesh, and the second most commonly spoken language in India (after Hindi-Urdu). Along with Assamese, it is geographically the most eastern of the Indo-European languages. Like most other modern Indic languages, Bengali arose from the Apabhramsha melting pot of Middle Indic languages, around the turn of the first millennium CE. Some argue for much earlier points of divergence - going back to even 500 BCE,[4] but the language was not static, and different varieties co-existed concurrently, and authors often wrote in multiple dialects. In particular, the eastern region language known as Abahatta (with considerable overlap with Purvi and Magadhi Apabhrangsha), had begun to emerge by the seventh century AD. Hiuen Tsang has noted that the same language was spoken in most of Eastern India. (more...)
