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To The Editor
Our captain
What have Sachin Tendulkar, Bryan Lara and other veteran cricketers done for their nation? The answer to tills question from the cricket lovers will undoubtedly be that they have done a lot. But when the same question is put to the cricketers themselves they usually try to avert the answer and say they have done nothing yet or little and are trying to do better. The same answer will perhaps come from the successful people in other fields also. Interestingly, in the case of our national cricket team captain Ashraful, without even facing the above question, he answered it quite arrogantly that he had done a lot for the country and wanted to do more. Astonishing! How could a cricketer like him make such an impertinent remark?
Here he has the consistency of our political leaders who always avoid the core issues. Muhammad Ashikur Rahman
Department of Public Administration University of Dhaka
Black vs. white money
Accumulation of black money is the result of corruption, evasion of taxes and sometime crime. For a capitalist economy this is inevitable. The British empire flourished with the assets plundered from its colonies. So is the case of other colonial powers. The largest economy of the world, the US economy, was founded by slave labourers illegally brought from Africa. Later, the economy flourished on Mafia money lavishly invested in real estate, films and banking sectors. Now all these economies are white.
Corruption in Bangladesh is endemic. Most of the luxuri-ous apartments in Dhanmondi and Gulshan and in other posh areas where many of our leaders, talk show barons and high officials reside were built with black money. Most of them took the benefit of the blanket income tax rule where source was not to be disclosed.
1 Unless we can enforce taxation rules and anticorruption laws effectively black money will continue to amass. If we can't divert the same to productive ways these will find way to foreign lands enriching other economies. A reasonable policy should continue to bring the money to legal investment to generate employment and alleviate poverty.
The stick must follow the carrot, otherwise the desired result will not be achieved. M.Sanaul Huq
Uttara Model Town, Dhaka
Business corruption According to the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009, the major constraint on foreign companies operating in Bangladesh is corruption, followed by inefficient government bureaucracy, policy instability, inadequate infrastructure and inadequate access to financing. Corruption is present in most interactions with public
authorities. According to the World Bank & IFC Enterprise Surveys 2007, 85% of the companies surveyed expect to pay unofficial payments to 'get things done', while 55% identify corruption as a major constraint for doing business. Small and medium sized companies suffer most from corruption, as they devote proportionately more resources and time than larger companies to paying bribes and dealing with regulations. When bribes are measured as a share of costs by company size, the level of unofficial payments by the smallest companies (below 50 employees) is nearly five times the level paid by large companies (with over 159 employees). Private sector corruption is also widespread. While laws on disclosure of assets and conflict of interest exist, they are rarely enforced. Significant parts of the state budget (including state owned companies) remain outside legislative control. Former government employees or politically active persons often lead trade and business associations. According to the Transparency International Bangladesh Household Survey 2005, the private sector is highly corrupt in the country. While private public sector corruption is illegal, business-to-business corruption is not. Audits cannot always be trusted, as auditors rarely conform to international standards and are known to produce reports according to the wishes of the client.
Finally, institutions like TIB play a role against corruption. So, we need to facilitate their functioning.
Md. Shahidul Islam Department of Criminology and Police Science MBSTU, Tangail
Gene mechanics
It is a brief response to further comments received by me on gene mechanics. One of the purposes of writing, at this point in time, articles on genes was to trigger internal human motivation at local, global and other levels for intensification of exploration in sub-atomic areas of genes (used in ,an; equivalent sensi)' - ye't to come into existence though, because, for example, genes make up 2% of your DNA, the remaining 98% has no known function.
Taking into cognisance above and other present day limitations, gene mechanics is an attempt towards designing, among other things, a holistic framework of interdisciplinary knowledge, understandings and applications, as appropriate, ranging from algebra, to calculus, to arts, to engineering, to technology, to quantum gravity, to fluid mechanics, to medicine, to physiology, to books, to theories of everything, and to others in pursuits of energizing gene-led expeditions - in search of a universe formula. It is expected the formula will, in future, be able to explain, among other things, mysteries of uncertainties, convergences and divergences associated with Almighty God's creation, modus operandi for harnessing maximum benefits for all inhabitants of the universe
through a 100 percent internalisation of uncertainties.
The last word: one of the underlying assumptions is - a deeper knowledge and understanding of things like processing and chain reactions of for example sub atomic genes through apparent universe processes - Characterized by say, change, transformation, recycling and relativism -could possibly hold at least one of the keys to the universe formula. Let us work collectively towards that with the help of, for example, gene mechanics.
Dr. M.S. Haq
On e-mail
Home minister's claim
Home Minister Sahara Khatun claimed that law and order is improving but the ground situation is just the opposite. Terrorists killed three businessmen in mid day. Police opened fire and at least two garment workers died.
She said that these are only “incidents”. Well, do these incidents indicate that law and order in the country has improved?
Mukta Chakroborty One-mail
Moral imperative
This refers to Mr. Md. Anwarul Kabir's article on morality published in your daily on
22nd June. Indeed, at this point of time religion has lost its strength to instil morality in human psyche. However, the reason behind this failure as Mr. Kabir has argued in the article, "This failure of religion can be explained in line with Freud's conscious and subconscious states of mind. Although the majority of Muslims consciously try to be religious, their sub-conscious mind contradicts it. The vehicle for religious belief is the fear of the Day of Judgment. Ironically, this fear is not effective in the sub-conscious of the modern people. The precondition of religion is the surrender to religious scriptures. But the logic oriented sub-conscious mind is reluctant to accept anything blindly. So, at present, though people consciously engage themselves in religious rituals, religion fails to reach its prime objective”. I am not fully convinced.
Contrary to his argument, many believers do not follow the religious scripture blindly; rather they rationally follow the religions. Believing in God is not an irrational act as science has not discarded the existence of God or life hereafter. In fact, it is out of scope of science as it only tries to explain the objective reality of life. But there is another face of the coin - that is subjective reality, which can logically be explained with religions following different methodolo-
Thick plot!
There Is a new Bollywood release and this one has a really thick plot. People from the AL and the BNP now claim that when Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina were imprisoned by the military-backed government, they were served poisonous food! This is heavy stuff.
First of all, even Bollywood movies don't use this sort of things any more (they used to put these in the 80s and early 90s). There arc plenty of sophisticated poisons available these days that simply tasting the food will not tell you absolutely anything. You can eat, go home, rest and a day or two later you suddenly pass away! Secondly, the people who had the courage to arrest powerful people like Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina were not stupid. They knew very well that if either of these ladies died while in custody then there would have been a Liberation War II in Bangladesh by now. On the contrary, instead of trying to kill these ladies they went out of their way to provide foolproof security for them. Finally, when someone else controls the food you eat, the air you breathe and the water you drink, they can kill you absolutely any time they want. The fact that Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina contested the general election and are now enjoying very handsome salaries (paid by us), prove beyond doubt that the interim government didn't want to kill them.
Please stop this ludicrous comedy and do the job that you are paid to do. If not, step aside and let someone else do it. You must realise that everything is not always about you. This is our country. We have no more time for comedy and we don't have unlimited resources for launching endless probes and enquiries. The resources we have must be used for the country and the people.
AzadMiah Oldham UK
Kakrail Mosque
Kakrail mashjid. popularly known as Tablig jamaat mashjid, is situated in a nice place of beauty attached to Ramna Park. The architecture of the mashjid is also attractive. Many devotees come here for religious purpose. It is also a place of tourist importance and a place of glory for Dhaka as well as for Bangladesh.
1 went to Kakrail Mashjid to say my zohr prayer a few
gies. Albeit, Mr. Kabir's article implicitly portray religion is an illogical discourse, this is not true in reality.
The true religious persons (whatever religious doctrine he/she follows) are logical and must uphold high moralities Another point to be mcn-tionedjs that parucipation in rituals (foes not'confirm a ’, person's true belief in religion. All the devotees in mosques are not religious; many of them are, in fact, munafiques (hypocrite) as Islam labelled them. In fact, decay of morality in human society is due to decrease of truly religious people.
SM A Imam
Kemal Ataturk Avenue
Banani
Dhaka
Where is our government?
'Where is my vote?' this was the question raised when Ahmadinejad was elected in Iran. But now our question is where is our government? Mobs are doing whatever they want. They are burning our mills and factories. Whatever logic they might have behind ransacking the factories, no sympathy is left for them. I felt helpless when I saw the workers destroying their own livelihood.
What is the government doing about it?
Joynul Abedin Dept, of English SUST.Sylhet
days back. I got a shock seeing the distressed picture of the front compound of the magnificent popular mashjid. It was found in disarray and haphazard with brickbats, khoa, empty drums, and other unnecessary things littered here and there making the whole area bad looking. The toilets were not well cleaned and maintained. Toxic irritating smell was pouring into the nose. The doors of the toilets arc made of the metallic sheet which are banging each time at the opening and closing. The road from the toilet to the mashjid is built of khoa not suitable for walking. The “ojukhana” in front of the main entrance was found to be not cleaned, littered with polythene etc. blocking the passage of wastewater. In the very entrance shoes and sandals were lying scattered carelessly which looked very odd.
Inside of the mosque (ground floor) seemed not clean. Plastic bag piece, this and that were seen deposited around the pillar. The floor was also dirty. The front side adjacent footpath is occupied by different vendors selling cloth, bedding, caps and tasbis, religious books, cooked foods and what not. All these could be arranged in a definite location in and around the mashjid in a decent manner. The front compound of the mosque could be a beautiful garden and all required things could be placed in a disciplined manner.
The mashjid should be a beautiful place from where the devotees will be influenced to beautify their mindset.
Md. Del war Hossain East Rampura, Dhaka
Parking on streets
First of all, I would like to congratulate you for your report "Parking on streets " (July 01, 2009). The DCC has assigned a firm to collect tolls from parked vehicles on the streets. Now my question would be why would the DCC allow parking on streets for monetary benefit whereas such parking on streets should be totally banned so that the terrible traffic congestion in the city maybe eased. 1 am a resident of Gulshan-2, Dhaka. In the last few months 1 have noticed the DCC has put up signboards on the main Gulshan Avenue that parking is NOT allowed on the main avenue and that parking should be made in assigned places of the DCC where you have to pay toll. I have since noticed that parking on the main Gulshan Avenue goes on
unabated.
The traffic jam at Gulshan, Banani, Mohakhali has become worse. Now on the; sub-roads of Gulshan, the' DCC is charging cars to pay, tolls for parking.
If you notice for example road no 103 of Gulshan-2 (Besides Wonderland and Pink City shopping mall) where I live, the DCC is allowing cars to be parked on both sides of the road just to get money out of this process, but the vehicular movement on this road is coming to a total standstill. The two way car movement is; becoming impossible since on both sides of the road cars are parked. I am really puzzled why would the DCC allow such parking on a road where already it is difficult for cars to move.
If the purpose is to ease the traffic jam on the main Gulshan Avenue, then I am sure it is not working since parking is still going. Traffic jam is getting worse by the day as new shopping malls arc coming up without sufficient car parking. What is theDCC's role in this matter? Why would the DCC assign a company to collect tolls for parked cars on I roads where you simply do not; have the space for car parking? What is the real benefit, other than money-making?
I am encouraged to see your report dated July 01 on the above mentioned subject. I A resident
Gulshan -2, Dhaka
Wedding lights
Recently, after the implemen-1 tation of the energy saving policy by our government, part of one of the streets of > Dhanmondi where I live was • entirely lit up by wedding decoration lights for two whole days. Well, as long as they paid for consuming so much electricity others are probably not supposed to be bothered about it. However, a marching wedding band beating drums and playing trumpets throughout the day and in the middle of the night in a residential area did raise some eyebrows.
The marching band trumpeted past a children's hospi-fal.'ode o' clock at night. I dot understand that it was a special day for the bride and the groom and called for a loud celebration, but a celebration which causes disturbance to neighbours shouldn't be encouraged. I do hope we all learn to keep in mind the importance of concern for others.
Ansha Zaman Dhanmondi Dhaka
Cyber crime
People of our country are envisioning 'Digital Bangladesh' whereas some crimes are being traced in the digital world. One such crime is cyber crime. It is actually a criminal activity done by users through the Internet These crimes committed through the Internet are of several types. These include copyright infringement, software piracy, password cracking or cheating by others' ID, cyber pornography, e-mail threats, hacking others' websites and so on. Sometimes people superimpose the images of others through the Internet and create great problems. Hackers continue hacking of important websites across the globe as well as plunder the secrecy of others. For example, the recent hacking of Rab's (Rapid Action Battalion) website degraded the image of Bangladeshi defence.
Another emerging issue is cyber pornography which engulfs die youth all over the world, especially the third world countries like ours. It actually demoralises the young generation through the Internet. Besides these, E-tnail threats and computer virus create serious problem
for Internet users. Some prominent persons and organisations are the victims of e-mail threats.
All these crimes are a contemporary phenomenon in Bangladesh. Though the Information and Communication Act 2006 has been defined and brought under our criminal jurisprudence, it has not been implemented. So, the lawmakers and the technocrats of the country should come forward to enact and implement the appropriate laws against cyber crimes. With the implementation of the Act. we can really paw the way for a true Digital Bangladesh'.
SayeefShahriar Dept of English University of Dhaka
Afghan scene
It is historically proved that Afghanistan is a grave for any illegal occupant. That again has been reflected in the reality from where the USA cannot extricate itself. Now the USA has to expend 22.000S per minute In war during the critical global recession and the cost is a big burden on Obama's administration.
Enam
One- mail