The holy month of Ramadan has begun. I think Bangladesh is the only country in the world where security has to be beefed up to contain crimes like mugging, kidnapping, robbery, etc, which strangely show a rising trend this month. Prices of essentials also go up, making life difficult for the common people, as businessmen want to make profits as much as possible.

What a shame! In this month people are supposed to purify themselves from all sorts of greed, pray to Almighty Allah for forgiveness for their wrongdoings, and reform themselves to become better persons, but what we see here is totally opposite. This attitude of ours must be changed.

Nur Jahan

Chittagong