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{{short description|Memorial dedicated to the Bengali language authors and the martyrs}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2018}}
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|monument_name = Bhasha Smritistambha<br>(Language Monument)
|image = Bhasha Smritistambha Arnab Dutta 2011.jpg
|caption = Frontal view of Bhasha Smritistambha
|location = [[Deshapriya Park]], [[Kolkata]], Paschimbanga ([[West Bengal]]), [[India]],
|designer = Subhaprasanna
|type = Memorial
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|open = 20 February 2011
|dedicated_to = Bengali language authors and martyrs of Language Movements of Dhaka and Silchar.
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The '''Bhasha Smritistambha''', Language Monument), located at Deshapriya Park, [[Kolkata]], is a [[memorial]] dedicated to the [[List of Bengali language authors (chronological)|Bengali language authors]] and the martyrs of [[Bengali Language Movement|language movements]] of [[Dhaka]] and [[Silchar]].

The monument was inaugurated by [[Mamata Banerjee]], the then [[Railway Minister of India]] on 20 February 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-152093.html |title=Language memorial inaugurated in Kolkata |access-date=6 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120121234233/http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-152093.html |archive-date=21 January 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> [[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".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rangdeindia.jp/detailnews.php?news_id=7660 |title=Language memorial inaugurated in Kolkata |access-date=6 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150522235052/http://rangdeindia.jp/detailnews.php?news_id=7660 |archive-date=22 May 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

"Bhasha Smritistambha" is the second Bengali language Martyr's memorial in Kolkata after the "Bhasha Shahid Smarak", commissioned at Surendranath Park, [[Esplanade, Kolkata|Esplanade]] in 1998.<ref>[http://www.biz-bd.com/?p=9768 আজ আন্তর্জাতিক মাতৃভাষা দিবস সাড়ম্বরে পালিত হচ্ছে বিশ্বের ১৮৮টি দেশে।]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

==References==
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{{Bengali Language Movement in India}}

[[Category:Monuments and memorials in Kolkata]]
[[Category:Martyrs' monuments and memorials]]

Bhasha Smritistambha - Revision history

>BrownHairedGirl at 14:30, 18 March 2021