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Debasree's painting touches upon a significant fact of February, a fact that embraces her ancestry (undivided Bengal, East Pakistan, Bangladesh), her mother-tongue Bengali, which in East Pakistan became the bone of contention with Urdu, the official language of Pakistan, leading to language riots that left many student-protesters dead. Her painting commemorates February 21, celebrated as Language Day in Bangladesh and now internationally accepted as Language Day by UNESCO.
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