A young student places flowers at a Shaheed Minar made of banana trees on Language Martyrs’ Day yesterday. The Line Beel Pabla Government Primary School in Dumuria upazila of Khulna, established in 1945, has yet to get a permanent Shaheed Minar. Each year on February 21, students collect banana trees, build a makeshift monument, and pay tribute to the language martyrs. Photo: Habibur Rahman