🇧🇩 Today's country is Bangladesh. The 1952 language protests inspired International Mother Language Day. At dawn in Dhaka, the air smells of milk tea, diesel and frying paratha, and the rickshaws are already painted brighter than the shopfronts. Then the land opens into water: ferries edging through brown rivers, tea slopes around Srimangal, mangrove creeks where mudskippers flick across the bank. What stays with you is the habit of making room — on a bench, at a table, in a conversation… See more