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Are we advancing or regressing?
We are advancing fast on the crime curve! There are many new criminal activities that we come across, as we scan the dailies. This is a profession that is getting more expertise and specialisation! Today criminal activities have a large number of fields, and more are being added.
Decades back, we started with thieves and pickpockets. Later came robbers and murderers. Now we have musclemen, child lifters, child molesters, rapists, wife beaters, hijackers, food polluters, traffickers, scalpers and the latest are computer hackers! There are more, which is beyond my recall, and I am sure readers can add on to the list.
It all only deflects society's decadence and degeneration, day by day. The more we go forward into the modern age, the more criminalisation is being introduced! It seems that we are taking two steps back, for every step forward! One wonders what it will be like a decade hence. Only time will tell what lies ahead, but the signs are very depressing indeed!
S.A. Mansoor
Dhaka
The real fighters
There are people around us who struggle through all difficulties in their life. We hardly know about them. They are the real fighters. Their limitations can not stop them from going ahead. They do not give in. Seeing the way they struggle, one finds the strength and motivation not to give in. They are very ordinary people, yet they rise above all!
The old man who sells hair combs and cotton buds on Farmgate over bridge is one of them. When you buy something from him and pay him the money, he will take the note and ask you which note this is to know if he has to give you any changes. Only then you will discover that he is visually challenged.
CantaraWali
Quader the right man for railway
I feel sad that Mr Obaidul Quader is no more the railways minister. I think Mr Quader is the fittest person to modernise Bangladesh Railway. There are many obstacles to modernising the railway. Interdistrict bus owners often create pressure on the railway authorities not to add new trains in order to get enough passengers for their buses. Sometimes they offer bribes to the BR high officials for this purpose. To take hard decisions against these bus owners, Mr Quader was the right person. I request our Prime Minister to rethink this decision and reappoint Obaidul Quader as the railways minister again. Sayeeduddin Shyamoli, Dhaka
Unfortunate!
Once I got a chance to visit a hydro-electricity project. There were two turbines to generate electricity. However, only one was functioning. I asked the engineer, "Why is it not working? Is the water insufficient or is it a technical problem?" He replied, "It is an order from the higher authorities not to run the turbine." I was utterly shocked to learn this when people are forced to live in the dark due to load shedding.
Miton Kumar Gupto
Phulbari Technical & BM Institute Phulbari, Dinajpur
Theft inside govt, hospital
About a month ago, I was staying at a male ward in Mymensingh Medical College Hospital to look after my sick father. It was nearly 4 in the morning and almost all patients and their relatives were sleeping. Suddenly, I woke up hearing the scream of a woman. We thought she probably found her son dead. Her son was suffering from serious lung cancer. But to my utter surprise, I came to know that all her money went missing, which was her last savings for her son's treatment. I learned that this happens quite often here. Majority of the people who come to public hospitals for treatment are poor people. But the thieves do not spare them. Some hospital staff are allegedly involved in this. The hospital authorities should identify those people and punish them. They should take proper steps so that this type of theft never occurs in the hospital.
Mohammad Anisuzzaman
Bangabandhu Hall
Bangladesh Agricultural University
A pleasant reminder
The power supply situation is said to have greatly improved over the year in Dhaka but at a great cost, making the lives of consumers more miserable. The prime minister has publicly mentioned that there would still be two hours of mandatory load shedding as a pleasant reminder of the suffering that people had go through during the time of the past regime.
The announcement of the prime minister is no doubt a noble gesture. It is believed that the majority of the population i.e. 70% people were born after the independence of Bangladesh. This 70% of the population is not aware of how life used to be prior to 1971.
I remember buying four eggs for 25 paisas, a maund of rice for 25 rupees, a gallon of gasoline for 6 rupees, a bottle of soda for 25 paisas and so on. These have now become the stories of the past. The late founding father of the nation Bangabandhu sacrificed his life for the cause of the common people so that they could live in peace.
At present, perhaps four eggs cost 40 taka or more; one kg of coarse rice 25 taka or more; a litre of gasoline 90 taka or more; a bottle of soda 10 taka or more and so on. As a pleasant reminder, can the prime minister make yet another announcement to take us to a period, say, three to four decades back, twice a year, during the Eid festivals to remember the past!
Saleh Mohammad Ayub