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Channel i
I recently went through an interview of Shykh Siraj published in the culture page on June 18. I expected that more effective and enterprising views would come out of the interview. However, this invoked me to think about certain programmes that Channel-i might consider airing.
While still in school we used to read about Florence Nightingale, Joan of Arc and characters that not only inspired us but also enlightened us. Apart from these characters if we look into English literature of previous centuries there are many interesting stories that have lasted through the ages and are still famous. For example Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies still have great impact on us.
My suggestion to Channel-i is to seek advice from the university teachers of various departments -from English, Bangla, History etc and ask them to suggest a few characters, incidents that they may consider telecasting.
It would not have to be elaborate and the programme may be shown in a story telling form, while only the major characters would be portrayed. This would leave a lasting effect on the young and old alike.
Dr. N.N. Fyzennesa
Former Professor IER, DU
Lawyer's agitation against the proposed budget
I am pleased to see that all professionals of the country have been included in the budget of FY 20032004 for submission of income tax return and have been advised to obtain trade licence. This is an area where all successive governments have failed to identify as a sector evading payment of income tax judiciously for generations. In the meantime one of the professional groups have sprang on their feet and started agitation for nonpayment of tax. It is quite painful to see that they have been demanding
and leading procession off and on to separate judiciary from the executive; claiming themselves as champions of democracy, justice and the most enlightened members of the society on the one hand and contrarily by a resolution of association of the highest court of the country urged the government to withdraw the provision of tax return!
Rezaul Huq
Lalmatia, Dhaka
Saddam's iraq
Saddam is gone. That chapter is closed. A new era has started.
Is Saddam alive? May be or may be not. But history will always keep him alive solely because he has established the truth that liberating the already liberated people by a foreign force is nothing but enslaving the people to the coalition of axis of willing and merely a bitter lie and also for that he has been succeeded to award the world two big liar-- Bush and Blair.
God knows if ever Iraq will be
able to emerge from doom to boom again!
Nur Hossain
Bangshal, Dhaka
Rasulpur
We, the residents of village Bobar Kandi of No. 1 Charmotua union under Sudharam thana of Noakhali district, have unanimously decided to change the name of our village to 'Rasulpur' during a meeting attended by village elders. Bobar Kandi does not sound or mean anything good. Our village has a school, a madrassah, a mosque, a post office and a number of other organisations and many of our villagers are currently employed overseas. We want to give the village a good sounding and meaningful name.
So it is our fervent request to the higher authorities to do the needful to have our village renamed 'Rasulpur' at the Settlement Department and all the relevant organisations.
Haji Md. Lutfur Rahman
On behalfof the villagers
Rasulpur (Bobar Kandi), Noakhali
Middle-class and education
Talking about price hike of every kind of commodities is quite common among the people of all strata. Especially during Budget declaration, general people pray for one single thing that is they don't want any more price hike. But unfortunately, the prices of necessary commodities go up and people try hard to make an adjustment between limited income and the ever-growing expanses. But we seldom think or talk about the growing expenses in educational sector. In our country it seems that providing decent education for children of middle-class family is getting tougher day by day.
In this competitive society, private tutors are necessary for obtaining good result. Most of the students of Science Group in S.S.C and H.S.C level need at least four or
five teachers to obtain a standard grade and for doing better the number of private tutors goes up. In the case of Arts and Commerce, the students also have to take tuition to at least two or three teachers. Moreover, the fees of the private colleges are exorbitant, almost beyond the reach of the middle-class. Most parents prefer private institutions for their children to ensure better results. But, unfortunately most of the time they fail to do so because of financial constraint. Therefore, they eventually end up in public universities.
Rifat Mahbub
Dhaka University
israel's Nuclear Programmes
The US stand against Iran's alleged nuclear programmes is hypocritical to say the least. The exposure by the BBC of Israel's nuclear programme in its excellent documentary aired last Sunday and the US position on the issue have
convinced us that the US has no moral authority to question any other country on the nuclear programme, not even the North Koreans. The treatment by Israel of the guy who blew the whistle on its nuclear programme also revealed in the BBC documentary proved beyond doubt that in addition to being the regional bully armed to the teeth with nuclear and chemical weapons of mass destruction, Israel is also the worst violator of human rights and at par with the worst dictatorships existing now.
US attitude over Israel's now well documented programmes for production of weapons of mass destruction is a clear example of how the rest of the world sees the USA today; a Super Power pursuing shamelessly a policy of double standards. Here you have the Israelis who have produced all conceivable WMDs but the US exempting it from any international inspection and Iran who is accused of producing it and the USA threatening invasion to subject the Iranians to inspection. The
only conclusion that one can draw is that Iran's fault (as was Iraq's under Saddam Hussein) is not with pursuing the nuclear option (if it is) but in being an Islamic state.
What enrages me even more than the US hypocrisy and its double standard is the position of the rich Arab states. Why cant these countries get together and demand of the USA to apply on Israel the same conditions that it has already applied on Iraq and now threatening to apply on Iran? They have the financial clout. On my part, I have no hope that they would and ultimately some divine intervention would be necessary to make the US see how wrong it is in following this double standard. The total subservience of the US administration to Israeli interests or Israelisation of US foreign policy is turning full circle and it is only a matter of time that the rest of the United States would see the folly of their neo-conservative leaders and force a change.
Shahjahan Ahmed, Dhaka