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To The Editor
Fallout of August 21
The August 21,2004 grenade attack on Awami League rally changed the nature of politics in Bangladesh. The political atmosphere has become more violent than any time before. This inhuman attack has destroyed our long hope for good politics. The seed of distrust has turned into a full-grown tree. At present our two major political parties have adopted the formula “The more you fight, the more you gain in politics.” They are continuing with their old culture of rivalry and there is no sign that they might come out of this shortly. Violence is also common among actiwists of the same party to get position in the party. Now it is well established among political parties that money, muscle power and violence are the only means to come to power. The people of Bangladeshi are peace loving. If peace doesn't prevail in society, the political parties will lose public support very soon. The time has come to think about it. The two parties should forget all past conflicts, sit together, and save the country. Jabunnaher, Dhaka
Load shedding returns!
Over the last two days, starting from 29th. August, the curse of load shedding is back in our locality behind the Gulshan First Market in the residences along the Gulshan South Avenue. The short lived respite of Ramzan and the Eid holidays has vanished. Despite the new rental liquid fuelled plants, we are again back to square one!
One wonders how the load was managed even during maximum demand period of 6 to 10 pm during Ramzan? Was it by starving the REB, and keeping the more vocal Dhaka residents happy? Only the PDB and DESA know the underlying reason for this short happiness, and the dreaded return of load shedding in this hot weather. Can it be possible for PDB and DESA to ease the misery till the end of September or mid November at most, when it will be hopefully cooler, and the misery will also be somewhat ease? Can something be done, now that higher tariffs are reportedly round the corner?
Retirement age of our politicians
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad said removing the two ladies (Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia) from politics is necessary to move the country forward. Charity begins at home. Octogenarian HM Ershad may kindly remove himself first from politics to set example and open the door for the younger generation to move the ailing Bangladesh forward.
Not only for Yunus, our government may also fix the retirement age of our President of the Republic, our finance minister and others to build a digital Bangladesh. O H Kabir Wari, Dhaka
Eid in Kolkata
This year as I was on a personal trip to India, I had the opportunity to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr in Kolkata. It was great! Muslims in Kolkata celebrated Eid with due religious fervour and gaiety. Although there were some false SMSs spreading rumour that there would be some disturbances during the Eid congregation, the Government of West Bengal took strong measures and the Eid was celebrated without any hindrance. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a statement said: “None of us wants peace to be disrupted. Do not even try to set the house on fire. We have given shelter to our minorities. We will not tolerate this." (The Hindustan Times, August 21,2012). The Muslim religious leaders also expressed their firm conviction in maintaining peace.
All the Eid jamats were held peacefully and the greatest festival of the Muslims was celebrated with enthusiasm and entertainment.
Professor M Zahidul Haque
Dean
Faculty of Agriculture
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
New immigrants' dilemma
Some Bangladeshi people, especially those living in the UK and USA have a tendency to discourage people to go over there for immigration. Most of those people have gone to the respective countries in the mid eighties or early nineties. They remain busy all day with Bangladeshi satellite news channels and discuss the political and socio-economic condition of the country. They also keep themselves occupied with all sorts of Bangladeshi cultural programmes and their respective Samities such as Beanibazar Samity, Kurigram Samity, North Bengal Samity, etc. They are living in those countries, raising their children, getting all the facilities provided by the respective governments but yet, they don't consider that country to be their own. They come to Bangladesh and speak evil things about those countries and how difficult it is to survive there.
Having stayed there for decades, they plan to come back to Bangladesh and start a new life. As an ex office manager in a diplomatic mission for years, I know how difficult it has become for people to resettle in Bangladesh. I, with all my respect to their patriotism, would like to say, please do not discourage people who wish to settle there as they too have the wish for better life, at least for their offspring. If you can't help them, please don't discourage them. Being a new immigrant, I have had quite a similar experience.
Badal Hasib
On e-mail
Darker side of the internet
Though internet has brought about drastic changes in the realms of entertainment, education, information, and social interaction, it has a dark side too. It has been found that excessive use of internet isolates the users from the real world, pushing them away from their own friends and families. This has also been identified as a major cause of depression.
Miton Kumar Gupto
Phulbari, Dinajpur