I was attending a lecture on the afternoon of 24th January when someone shouted out that Koko was dead. Surprisingly I found that no one in the class expressed any stirring note - all seemed to be quite normal. At one point someone commented, "What an irony for Khaleda Zia, now she has to behold her own son's dead face! Could she now realise the pains of the mothers who have lost their children to the political violence ?

We have all become so fed up with the utterly exploitative nature of the politicians that we, the common people, have lost all our emotion for them.

I don't know whether this feeling of mine would knock the conscience of the politicians at least for once.

Shazzad Khan

Gulshan, Dhaka