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Don't call hartal on Sunday
Sunday is a sacred day for the Christians all over the world. All the people from the infants to the elderly attend the church on Sunday. Compared to the eternal life we are all here in this world only for the time being just like a pilgrim. Only heaven is the pilgrimage for all the human beings. We work six days a week. Sunday is considered as a day for prayer by the Christians. Some years before we observed Sunday as a weekly holiday. Prayer is the best preparation to get ready to go to heaven.
Let us pray with attention on this day. Prayer is the food for our souls. Prayer bears good fruits in our life. And the church is the best place to feel the existence of God. We can feel His existence in our life. To enable us to enrich our spiritual life, please do not call hartal on Sunday, 27 March, which is
Easter Sunday. It's a great festival for the Christianity all over the world. Easter Sunday is the Victory Day of Jesus Christ. On this day Jesus Christ arose from his death.
Happy Easter to the readers. No hartal on any Sunday. Hartal does not bring any good. It can only create problems.
Benjamin Gomes
Kakrail, Dhaka
Image
We are talking much about the image of the country, which is claimed to have been tarnished by people outside the government. True, the image has been tarnished, but whether the damage has been done by the people in the government or the outsiders is the question. If you look at the administration you will hardly find the right person in the right place. We do not even have sufficient numbers of people who can communicate properly with
foreigners.
Bangladesh today is in desperate need of qualified people. I don't want to elaborate the point further.
Reazul Haque
Banasree Kalyan Samity Goran, Dhaka
Plight of students under NU
The students of National University are the victims of a diabolical situation. They are enormously trouble-ridden. Especially the students of English have to face great difficulties. The four-year course has a vast syllabus but we do not get sufficient materials to prepare ourselves. Even the teachers' proficiency on the subjects to be studied is questionable. They admit their inefficiency citing that they are not able to comply with the prescribed syllabus. The syllabus of the second year especially "Advance reading
and writing" was entirely puzzling which baffled the students because no teachers, not even the syllabus-makers, will probably be able to solve the sample questions. Somehow, one year has already gone and some teachers have obtained hazy knowledge of the subject by virtue of which they teach the students, publishing some misleading advertisements.
That is not my point. I want to say that those who appeared in the second year exams and are preparing for the third yearcourse are the worst sufferers. Still today they have not got the books or even the sample questions. Time is ticking away. The university authorities are silent on the issue. So the students are in serious trouble. They do not really know what to do now. Just one month before the final exams, one publisher has provided some books which contain questions and notes which are of no use at the honours level.
So, I urge the authorities concerned to provide the necessary books immediately to the students and minimise their predicament.
Hafiz
Dept of English
Govt. Titumir College, Dhaka
Yet another leakage!
The Public Service Commission has failed to prevent leakage of BCS questions for the third consecutive year! A Bangla daily printed the leaked and the original questions on 25 February. The leaked questions are just the replica of the original ones. A member of the PSC denied the allegation as usual, as if this was an attempt to defame the PSC. Small wonder!
Where will we, as ordinary Bangladeshis, get justice? How can we be happy with this institution? We would not know about the leakage if the media did not cover the issue. And thank you for this.
We urge the PSC, as well as the government to take necessary steps so that the culprits responsible for the leakage of the questions are brought to justice. They must also take precautionary measures in order to prevent repetition of such a situation in future.
Md. Aminul Islam
268, Surya Sen Hall Dhaka University
Agriculture sector
The government is rightly focussed on the agricultural development of this fertile country, where the vast majority live in the rural areas. But it is rather surprising to note (letter in DS Mar 17) that the R&D facilities at the leading agriculture university in Dhaka (SAU) has several shortcomings.
Unless the scientific base is strengthened, the structure, generally speaking, cannot contribute effectively. It is not a difficult task.
Political weakness is revealed here: the fondness for low-level publicity gimmicks such as opening ceremonies of cosmetic projects by the politicians. Our elected representatives have to display more professional acumen in their PR. We are a talkative society.
The professionals in the background (in every public sector) need more exposure and encouragement.
Our politics suffers from narcissism, due to discouraging competition. Change is a part of life, and it has to be respected, and faced in pragmatic and positive ways. Don't try to hold on to your fort for ever! Give others a chance, and then come back... if you can.
A Husnain
Dhaka
"Religious extremism and freedom of choice"
I have gone through the article under the above title and believe that there are many lessons to learn from it. In this connection, I would like to add that there is no such idea in Islam like theocratic state. There is only one theocratic state in the world i.e. Vatican City in Italy.
'Ekraha Fiddin' means that there is no extortion or force in professing religion. Did not our Prophet Muhammad (SM) establish an Islamic state where Jews and Christians were equally treated with Muslims? The author has strongly emphasised the need for fighting terrorism, which he opines, emerges from the act of Osama bin Laden.
My question is how many civilians have till now been killed by Osama bin Laden? By this time more than 1 lakh Iraqis have been killed by American soldiers and no word of protest is being uttered against this.
Tanzia Osman
Hatkhola, Dhaka