Today is World Mother's Day. This day is celebrated worldwide on the second Sunday of May every year. Mothers are showered with deep respect and love on this day. Because every child sees the light of the world as a result of their suffering and endless pain.
That is why the sweetest and first call in the world to every human being is 'Mother'. In just this one word, there is deep affection, pity, love. Poet Qazi Quader Newaj describes the selfless and infinite love of a mother in his poem 'Ma'. He wrote –
'Mom, that's too small, but brother Zeno,
There is no sweeter name than this in the three worlds.
'Let the religion of truth and justice be, after the head today,
Be a mother in the heart, mother, Jharuk Snehraji'
'Lying in a bed of disease, dying in agony,
Santana gets mother's honey, the name is remembered in the heart.
A mother loves her child selflessly from conception to death. A mother's love is a constant stream that never ebbs. Mother's love is priceless. Therefore, in honor of this mother's infinite and bottomless love and self-sacrifice, the children of the whole world bow down in her honor. Although love for mother is not to be expressed around a specific day or time. However, many programs are held today to express love for mother.
Mom, I love you so much
I miss you so much mom
It is known that Mother's Day started in ancient Greece. The mother goddess Sibel and the goddess Juno were worshiped there. Besides, several rituals like mothering sund were common in Europe and UK. Mothering Sunday was always celebrated on a specific Sunday in honor of mothers.
However, in the modern era, 'Mother's Day' was celebrated for the first time in Grafton, West Virginia, on May 12, 1907. At that time there was a pacifist activist in Virginia named Anne. She worked for women's rights. She founded the 'Mother's Day Work Club'. He tried to advance the backward women of the society by making small work clubs. Helped women to become independent. Anne was very religious. Anne had a daughter, Anna Maria Reeves Jarvis.
One day, in front of her little daughter, Anne folded her hands and said, 'I pray that one day someone, someone, will dedicate a day to mothers. Because they are sacrificing their lives for humanity every day. It is their right.
That mother's prayer moved Anna's heart. He dedicated the day of Ann's death to every mother around the world. Since then, Mother's Day has been celebrated in honor of mothers. In 1914, the then US President Woodrow Wilson declared the second Sunday of May as 'Mother's Day'.
Since then, the second Sunday of May is celebrated as International Mother's Day. However, many countries dedicate other days to mothers. Mother's Day is usually celebrated in March or May.
It is known that in 1910, West Virginia introduced an official holiday to recognize mothers. Almost every state marks the day of celebration a year later. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson declared the second Sunday in May as the national holiday of Mother's Day.
Since then, various events are held in honor of mothers on World Mother's Day. Numerous poems, rhymes, songs, stories, novels and essays have been written about mother in the native literature. World Poet Rabindranath Tagore, National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, Rural Poet Jasim Uddin, Poet Abu Zafar Obaidullah, Poet Al Mahmud and numerous other poets and writers.
For ages, mothers have been featured in stories and poems.
Subcontinent's famous singer and composer Sudhirlal Chakraborty has aptly written.
'My mother's sweet smile falls on the face of the moon
I remember my mother, I remember my mother'
'World Mother's Day' will be celebrated with due dignity in Bangladesh too.
On Sunday (May 12), International Mother's Day will be celebrated across the country with due dignity. The Directorate of Women Affairs of the Government has also issued instructions to celebrate International Mother's Day 2024.
In this, the deputy directors at the district level have been asked to coordinate with the district administration to accept and implement the program. At the same time, upazila women affairs officers, officers in charge of residential or non-residential training centers and day care officials have also been asked to coordinate with the local administration to take and implement programs to celebrate the day.
Apart from this, it is also informed that the budget has been sent from the Directorate of Women Affairs to district, upazila, residential and non-residential training centers and day-care centers to celebrate the day.