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To The Editor
Publish the list of rejected MRPs
According to a report of the daily Prothom Alo of 22nd July, 100,000 MRP passports have been rejected by the Department of Immigration and Passport. It is very sad that 2,080 MRPs were stolen from the concerned department. How could this happen? Who were involved in this? Have the authorities identified them and taken proper steps against them? To remove the hassles of the innocent applicants, the list of rejected MRPs should be published in the newspapers as early as possible. At the same time, the perpetrators must be identified and punished.
Shariful Islam
University of Dhaka
Criminal activities rise during
Ramadan!
Maybe Bangladesh is the only Muslim country in the world where police have to take special security measures to prevent criminal activities during the month of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr. From the July 20, 2012 issue of The Daily Star we learned that Dhaka Metropolitan Police is stepping up its security system.
In the holy month of Ramadan people not only fast, they are supposed to reform themselves, refrain from doing any criminal activities, and make themselves pure and humble. But in Bangladesh it never happens... crimes escalate; looting and snatching increases; and prices of essential commodities rise alarmingly. Forgetting the true spirit of Ramadan, a great number of people become busy to fulfil their selfish interest. What a shame and disgrace!
Nur Jahan Chittagong
Are we too lazy to react?
Being tolerant is good. Letting people take advantage of you is not. And that’s exactly what we are guilty of. We, the people of Bangladesh, turn a blind eye to every other flaw that appears in our daily life.
It’s almost like we like to suffer, silently. Every year we let our beloved utility providers dig up the roads, and somehow it's always the rainy season when it's easier to misappropriate funds, and no one has the power to do anything. The roads of the capital city are full of potholes. Disgraceful, but we can't care enough to react. Kitchen market prices have increased beyond the reach of even the middle class families, but what can we do? The government's attempt to reduce the prices of essential commodities or the CNG fares has been nothing more than just an attempt of misdirection. And the best part is, it works. I look around, and I see no one doing anything. What happened? Did all the courageous souls die in the War of Independence, leaving just pathetic citizens behind?
Asif
Sr. Copywriter
Unitrend Limited
Great writer with dreams
The whole nation is still mourning the death of Humayun Ahmed, an author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. Some noted writers of West Bengal have also expressed their deep shock over the death of our great writer. Sunil Gangopaddhay said: “I can not think that my friend is no more in this world, he (Humayun Ahmed) had a mastery over all the spheres of literature. His death is an irreparable loss to Bangla literature.” Famous writer Samaresh Majumder has said that the contribution of Humayun Ahmed in Bangla literature would remain alive for decades. His supervisor got very surprised to know about his command over literature while he was doing his Ph.D in polymer chemistry in North Dakota State University in US. Apart from his literary works, I am also impressed with his great dream of building a cancer hospital and an institution like Shantiniketan. His dreams remained unfulfilled in his lifetime. But I think all the fans of Humayun Ahmed, his relatives and the government should come forward and make all out efforts to translate his great dreams into reality.
Md. Musfikur Rahman Jony
Banes war, Rajshahi
Thanks to our power dept people
Every local daily has published the disastrous power grid failure leading to blackout all over India. In some locations, power failure has been catastrophic. The sad part was that when about forty percent of power was restored, the supply grid failure happened again! All this misery happened during the hot Indian summer, when naturally electric power demand is at the highest. Compared to that, we should consider ourselves lucky. Despite our outdated, lame and limping power generation equipment, we have thankfully been spared such disasters now occurring in India. Fortunately, we have been spared any large scale electric power blackouts due to technical failure.
As a retired fellow professional in the field, I take this opportunity to felicitate all our technicians and engineers of the generation and transmission side in the power generation plants and transmission stations conce3rned, who have coaxed electric power from old, outdated and worn out equipment! The nation owes them thanks and gratitude, for their professional performance.
Engr. S. A. Mansoor, Dhaka
Tragically the dark knight rose!
On July 20, 2012, a very painful and tragic incident took place during a midnight show of Christopher Nolan's super hit film "The Dark Knight Rises" wherein a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire inside a theatre in Aurora, Colorado. Twelve moviegoers were killed and more than 58 injured during the indiscriminate shooting.
Based on the DC Comics character 'Batman' 'The Dark Knight Rises' is the third and final installment of Nolan's Batman series.
While expressing deep shock and extending pro-
found sympathy and condolences to the victims, I would like to place a question: How and why a citizen in the United States, a country of strict law, order and justice could get motivated to commit such a deadly crime publicly? Previously, such types of painful incidents occurred in shopping centres, schools, etc. I strongly feel that a thorough psychological and sociological investigation should be conducted to determine why some people are spontaneously committing such crimes.
On the other hand, filmmakers are also required to critically review the possible impacts of their movie before release. In this connection, I would like to quote Catherine Shoard of The Guardian of London who claimed: "The film is a quite audaciously capitalist vision, radically conservative, radically vigilante that advances a serious, stirring proposal that the wish-fulfillment of the wealthy is to be championed if they say they want to do good." Professor M Zahidul Haque Dean, Faculty of Agriculture Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Dhaka
PM's BBC interview
Stephen Sackur interviewed our prime minister for the BBC Hardtalk. At the end part of the interview he suggested that the prime minister should leave the stage for new. We think a foreign journalist cannot give such a suggestion to an elected prime minister of a sovereign country in an interview. Mind that she is elected by the people. It is a gross violation of etiquette. We, the Bangladeshi people, may disagree with our prime minister on many policy matters, but after all she is our elected prime minister. Her dignity is our nation's dignity which must not be hurt.
Faruque Hasan