Bangla in bad shape!

Bravo! Mr. Badrul Ahsan for your well thought out editorial piece (6 Feb wed) on Bangla. It's about time somebody had a go at it. I totally concur with all your points. In fact you might also like to read my piece on the same subject in The Daily Star monthly Forum (June 2007). It's a national, cultural and intellectual disgrace that we are a nation quick to shed tears and blood, quick to lament on the language issue (like no other nation), and equally quick to forget all that and embrace some foreign colloquialisms, and quick to demolish what little Bangla there is. To watch some reporters (or indeed some high profile personalities) on TV wrestling with the pronunciation of some words, is to wonder why on earth did we have Ekushey at all.
This mixing of bad Bangla with bad English has become a fad, and even promoted on national TV.