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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Why spend so much money on making records? On December 16, 2013 Bangladesh made world's largest human flag in which 27117 people took part. Then on March 26, 2014 Bangladesh made another world record: 2.5 lakh people sang the national anthem together. We spent a large amount of money for organising these two events. We heard, more than 50 crore taka has been spent for singing the national anthem.
But do we really need to make records of this sort? National anthem is in the hearts of 16 crore people. The sons of this soil sacrificed their lives for their mother tongue, and February 21 is observed throughout the world as 'The International Mother Language Day'. Then comes our Liberation War; only in nine months our freedom fighters were able to free the country from the occupation of Pakistan and gave us a sovereign country.
Other records are insignificant to the above mentioned feats. So why spend so much money which could have been used for other purposes? Nur Jahan Chittagong
Gender-biased question in BCS exam
I have had a chance to browse the English first paper question of the 34,h BGS exam. Regrettably, the language of the question paper was found to be gender-biased. The first question that requires the examinees to translate a Bangla passage into English begins as: "Man is liable to troubles from which society cannot save him..." The passage is exclusionary in nature as it is full of masculine pronouns such as 'he', 'him' and 'his'. The other questions have also the same condition. It therefore, directly or indirectly, negates the existence of women as human beings. Ideally in an examination questions should be framed in such a way that examinees' knowledge can be truly assessed and they can learn from the inputs presented therein. Gender-biased language puts learners/ examinees into confusion and also affects the image of the highest recruiting agency of the government itself.
Hamida Banu
Canderia, Dhaka
Comments on news report, "Waging war against Bangabandhu," published on April 16, 2014
A freedom fighter
Neutrality does not mean deviation from the truth. There is no nation on our planet whose citizens question the legacy of its founding father. When we were fighting in '71, only one person's name glowed ceaselessly in our hearts. What a shame that we question the greatest person ever born on our soil!
Touchstone
Zia, though a freedom fighter, deliberately tried to wipe out Bangabandhu from our history. His wife and son are now trying to establish a new history of Bangladesh. If they ever come to power, they will declare Zia as the father of the nation. Be forewarned.
Molla A. Latif
The situation is such that there may be a day when people will say, Bangladesh emerged from the Bay of Bengal and there was no Pakistan, no Yahya Khan, no Mujib and no War of Liberation.
S. M. Iftekhar Ahmed
Although a well-written article, I got the feeling that Mr. Ahsan could have been a bit more neutral in his approach.
"Do 'study' as Tarique did" (April 16, 2014)
Chabagan3
Yes please, you too study!! Then you too can rewrite history! Sounds like the records of the land office.
Hardreality
The nation would be very grateful if you provide the name of the history book which you are referring to, or is there any other way (maybe Tarique Rahman has invented a unique way) to study history? Otherwise, how did everyone get it so wrong?
Touchstone
May God save us from these lunatics!
SM
Just to give a piece of information: when his college principal wanted to qualify him in the exam, President Zia did not agree. Try to giveTC to any leader's son now whose party is in power and see what happens.
Nasirullah Mridha, USA
Tarique's controversial comments on Bangabandhu are now endorsed by Fakhrul.