At first glance, Professor Monowara Islam does not seem to be old enough to have done both. In what was then a male-dominated movement, Monowara Islam was part of the small number of women who persistently turned up at every event. “We knew that a lot of Dhaka University students had been arrested. Despite all our restrictions, the Eden College girls joined the Language Movement spontaneously, and we believed in it with all our hearts. It is something we will carry with us for as long as we are alive.”

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 21, 2019 13:30 UTC