While I’m sure the recent arrest of Sheikh Hasina has captured the attention of every other Bangladeshi from Dhaka to Barbados, let us not forget the multitude of silent heroes that are able to work through the partisan chaos and do us proud in the global arena.

One such hero is a young HSC student named Tarif Ezaz. Over the past year, Tarif has been in the vanguard of a movement - conducted mostly on a cellphone - to make the “Bangladesh Language Movement” entry on Wikipedia a Featured Article. As many of you may know, getting an article to the status of “Featured Article” on the famous online encyopedia is a long slog up the mountain of peer review and consensus building.

Ragib Hasan does a great job of chronicling the struggles of Tarif and his colleagues as they worked to bring this inalienable piece of Bangladeshi history to the center stage. I’m not a superstitious man, but it seems almost portentious that something representing the soul of the Bangladeshi nationalist movement would be brought up in a time when our country continues to face tough choices about its fate.

Great job Tarif. We need more young people like you to bring us back to basics.