OP-ED: Dhirendranath Dutta: The last full measure of devotion

He was the first Bengali to rise up and remind the powers that Bangla was a language of consequence Dhirendranath Dutta gave to this country, in that Lincoln-esque manner of speaking, his last full measure of devotion. When he was picked up by the Pakistan occupation army, along with his young son, in 1971, he did not flinch in the face of danger.