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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Party leaders sending wrong message to students "Everyone has the right to education. Interference with that right will not be tolerated." In my elementary school, a student who misbehaved stayed late to learn this ideal by writing these sentences out as punishment. Sadly, in Bangladesh there are groups of adults that need this lesson as well.
Classes and important tests are delayed or lost due to violent hartals. Many activists do not understand the importance of education nor respect the fact that people want to better themselves. Hefajat believes that half the population does not even need education. Political parties' student wings spend too much time clashing with rival groups and disrupting campus life, instead of taking advantage of their educational opportunities.
Violence is the lesson these supposed future leaders are learning; and by not reining in this behaviour, the current party leaderships send the message that they are not concerned about students' future either.
Neil Taylor
On e-mail
What about indigenous candidates' quota?
According to the prevailing system, Bangladesh government should allocate certain resented seats (quota) in public services and in the government education institutions for the disadvantaged indigenous people. Recently PSC has been overtly criticized over quota issue, because it has eliminated hundreds of indigenous candidates from the 34th BCS preliminary's revised result (The New Age, July 14, 2013). The excluded indigenous candidates claimed that the assessment of PSC was unjust, discriminatory and against fundamental human rights that have been enshrined in the national constitution. The stealing of quotas from the eligible indigenous candidates broadly demonstrates that the fundamental principles of equity and equal opportunities have been distorted.
Lawrence Besra
PhD Student, School of Social and Policy Studies Flinders University, Australia
Show no mercy to reckless drivers
Recently I became the victim of a road accident on my way to work. While overtaking a small van on the busy road of Dhanmondi, a reckless driver rammed his minibus into the rickshaw I was riding crumpling its wheels. I was dislodged from seat and fell to the ground with my legs badly hurt. The young bus drivers, often without legal license, don't care about the safety of commuters' lives. The motor-driven rickshaws run like racing cars on the road. Also, with no traffic regulation or no strict law to punish the breakers of traffic law, the helpless city dwellers have to fall victim to their carelessness and lose their lives. If tougher punishment is awarded to the careless drivers, the number of such accidents will decrease and it would be much easier to commute in the streets of Dhaka.
Engr. Naome Syed
Mohammadpur, Dhaka
Comments on news report, "Initiate talks for all-party election," published on November 20, 2013
SM
The president must have more power and should be elected directly by people. We can't have dictators in guise of prime ministers.
Spiderman
He did his best. Snacks, sweets and fruit juices. What else can president do?
MH Uddin
Are we going to suffer more because of the stubbornness of political leaders?
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"Discussion was 'disappointing'" (November 20, 2013)
Abbasuddin
Dictators never listen to anybody.
Saleh Tanveer
PM is keen on reading "my way or the highway" manifesto to everyone. This kind of obdurate behaviour with all, domestic or foreign, may work with the faithful but shows to the people how arrogant she has become.
Truthprevails53
The US is poking its dirty, oil-dipped blood-soaked nose here.
Abul Kashem
Since necessary decisions have already been taken long before in a 'planned way', no suggestion or counselling from any corner will be acceptable to our government. So, 'disappointing' incidents will continue to happen. We are really an unfortunate nation.
Hafeejul Alam
It's understandable why the US has so much headache about our election. But Bangladesh is not the Middle East, Pakistan or Afghanistan. The chemistry of Bangladeshi people is quite different. The European Union understands it better. Its chief in Dhaka already asked the BNP to participate in the upcoming election. Now, the ball is in the court of BNP to play fair or foul!