New Day (novel) New Day (novel) New Day is a 1949 book by Jamaican author V. S. Reid. It was Reid's first novel. "New Day" deals with the political history of Jamaica as told by a character named Campbell, who is a boy at the time of the Morant Bay Rebellion (in 1865) and an old man during its final chapters. It may have been the first novel to use Jamaican vernacular as its language of narration. Reid employed the Jamaican dialect as a springboard for creating a distinctive literary variant and for achieving a greater depth in the English language. Reid was
Language Movement Day Language Day. The UNESCO General Conference took the decision that took effect on 17 November 1999, when it unanimously adopted a draft resolution submitted by Bangladesh and co-sponsored and supported by 28 other countries. Language Movement Day Language Movement Day or Language Revolution Day or Bengali Language Movement Day ( "Bhasha Andolôn Dibôs"), 21 February ("Ekushey February"), which is also referred to as Language Martyrs' Day or Martyrs' Day ( "Shôhid Dibôs"), is a national holiday of Bangladesh to commemorate protests and sacrifices to protect Bengali as a national language during the Bengali Language Movement of 1952. After the partition