Bangladeshi fine arts students paint on the street in front of the Shahid Minar, language movement mausoleum, in Dhaka yesterday, as part of preparations for the forthcoming Language Martyrs Day and International Mother language Day. Language Martyrs Day is marked in Bangladesh to commemorate those who died during protests on February 21, 1952 against the then Pakistani states government’s decision to name Urdu as the national language, despite East Pakistan’s (Now Bangladesh) Bengali speaking majority