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PID Post and Telecommunication Minister Mustafa Jabbar spoke on the occasion of poet Jiban Tapas Tanmoy's birthday

Bengali mother tongue of world's third largest population

Bangladesh Live News | @banglalivenews | 27 Jul 2022, 12:38 am

Dhaka, July 27: Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar said that Bengali is the mother tongue of the world's third largest population. The spread of Bengali letters is more. Bengali script is used in several languages, including Assamese. But once the Bengali language was neglected. Bangla language can now be written on all digital devices in the world. The government is working to achieve the technical capability of Bengali language.

In the digital era, Bengali is not behind any other language. He said these things while addressing the chief guest at the birthday function of Poet Jiban Tapas Tanmoy at World Cultural Development Center in Dhaka on Sunday (July 24) night. The program was inaugurated by Member of Parliament Rezwan Ahmad Taufiq.

Chairman of BTRC Shyam Sundar Sikdar, National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Soumitra Shekhar and Poet Jiban Tapas Tanmoy also addressed the meeting under the chairmanship of poet Asim Saha.

The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications said that poetry is the soul of language and literature and the poet is the worshiper of the beautiful against the ugly. Bangabandhu can be called the poet of politics. Bangabandhu's best epic Bangladesh. Poet Shamsur Rahman or Humayun Ahmed are known names in Bengali literature today. But there was a time when we had no alternative to read other than autumn stories.

"Since the invention of Bengali language on computers in 1987, a revolutionary change has started in the world of Bengali publishing. When I see my handmade Bangla font written on the books in the stalls of Ekush Book Fair, I feel proud, I feel very lucky. Even in Devanagari or Hindi there is no opportunity to pronounce all languages ​​correctly. Vidyasagar enriched Bengal. The new generation of poets and writers will strengthen the position of Bengali language in the world."

Rezwan Ahmad Tawfiq said, poets show us the way, they appear as beacons. At that time, poet Shyam Sundar Sikdar called poets as symbols of humanism and ideals.