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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

[ALOCHONA] India eager to use Ctg port, wants transit

India eager to use Ctg port, wants transit : Says Pinak

India is very much eager to use the Chittagong Port and transit facility through Bangladesh, Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pinak R Chakravarty said yesterday.Bangladesh may reap immense economic benefit by allowing India the Chittagong Port facility, Chakravarty told reporters while visiting the Chittagong International Trade Fair (CITF) at the Railway Polo Ground."We have long been looking forward to use the facility of Chittagong Port and in fact India had already made formal approach to the Bangladesh government in this regard," he said.

India is now waiting for a reply from the Bangladesh government on the issue. "The trade and economic relation of both the neighbouring countries would be strengthened to a great extent if Bangladesh allows us the transit and port facilities," he said.Replying to a question, Chakravarty said India wants a free, fair and credible general election in Bangladesh provided all political parties participate in it. "We hope the election in Bangladesh will be held in due time as per the roadmap," he said.

Earlier, the Indian envoy held a views-exchange meeting with the leaders of Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) at the temporary chamber office on the CITF premises. The CCCI has organised the month-long fair.At the meeting, he informed the chamber leaders that Bangladeshi goods have a great demand in the north-eastern states of India and Bangladesh may take advantage of this opportunity.He assured the CCCI leaders that India would soon issue a circular to pave the way for duty-free access of eight million pieces of Bangladeshi readymade garments to India.

CCCI President Saifuzzaman Chowdhury urged the Indian high commissioner to take initiatives to reduce the existing $1 billion trade deficit between the two countries. He also requested Chakravarty to take steps to develop the infrastructure of customs stations along the borders of the two countries.

Assistant High Commissioner of India Subrata Bhattacharya, CCCI Senior Vice President MA Latif, CITF

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[mukto-mona] Critique of CPM docu

My article in Statesman today. The print edition carries my byline but the online doesn't put my name. This is a critique of Draft Political Resolution for the CPI(M)'s 19th Congress, beginning on 29 March. 08

Irony of recent history 19 Mar 08 (http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=4&theme=&usrsess=1&id=195840)
The CPI-M's draft political resolution (DPR) for its ensuing 19th Congress (Coimbatore, 29 March-3 April 2008) has hailed China's "rapid economic growth" as "unprecedented". "No other country after the Second World War has witnessed such sustained rapid economic development. The influence of China as a major power is felt not only in the Asia Pacific region, but also extends to Africa and Latin America," it asserted. The irony of history is that the same day the Washington Post carried a news item on how Chinese farmers' protests against the land acquisition policy are escalating. Over 50,000 farmers have, despite the curbs on any form of dissent, agitated in China during the last three years, according to official reports.
The DPR casually referred to the flip side of reform in China ~ "growing inequalities, income-wise, region-wise and between urban and rural areas" ~ but expressed satisfaction over the Communist Party of China's "suggested steps to tackle them" at its 17th Congress held in October. According to a commentary in the Post by Edward Cody, "seeds of revolt were sown at a meeting hall in Changchunling village on 19 December last near the frigid, snow-covered soybean fields clinging to the Russian border. Challenging the Communist state's neo-agrarian policy, farmers wanted an assertion of 'the key component of the Marxist-Leninist ideology to change: redistribution of land rights'." Little wonder then, that within a few weeks the message spread over to half a dozen other farming areas. Everywhere the aggrieved tillers raised "fundamental ideological questions for a government that still describes itself as Marxist-Leninist after 30 years of economic reforms," wrote Cody. Indeed, some 250,000 acres were taken over in the 1990s by local bureaucrats for sale to private agriculture companies.
What has been happening in India ~ Kalinganagar in Orissa, Raigad in Maharashtra, Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, Singur and, abortively, Nandigram, in West Bengal — is largely similar. The roundabout way in which about 1000 acres of lands was transferred to Tata Motors via the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation Limited, a state government undertaking under a deceptive tag — acquisition for "public purpose" under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 reflects the colonial hangover of CPI-M; or worse, its utilitarian use of colonial-era legislation to further its own ends.
"Communists" in power are expected to rewrite the statute in sync with a sovereign and pro-people tone. Instead, official Communists in West Bengal, have embarked on an anti-people path for the greater glory of the CPI-M's honeymoon with "capitalism". The DPR is silent about the Party's new-found bonhomie with big business against the interests of small, marginal and landless peasants. The 18,774-word document has no dearth of criticism of neo-liberal capitalism pursued by the UPA government and the Union government comes in for quite a bashing for submitting to an International Monetary Fund and World Bank prescription for globalisation. But the capitalist path today is bound to be of a neo-liberal variant. It is not that CPI-M general secretary Prakash Karat or second-in-command Sitaram Yechury do not understand the plain truth. But their commitment to defending Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and others who carry on the late Anil Biswas' creative thesis ~ "(capitalist) development is a form of class struggle" ~ is complete!
Now, with a large chunk of intellectuals — fellow-travellers disillusioned with the CPI-M for this drift — uneasy with the Marxists' new formulation, card-flaunting economist Prabhat Patnaik has been entrusted with the task of defending the party's argument for capitalism. Forget the deceptive intent ~ that to defend capitalism is to suggest a disconnect between the party strategy (people's democratic revolution or socialist revolution) and tactics (supporting the Congress at the Centre by compromising on the capitalist path which according to the CPI-M party programme is the root cause of poverty, unemployment et al). The JNU academic, in parroting the nonagenarian Politburo member Jyoti Basu that a people's democratic revolution is on the "agenda" of the CPI-M is only adding to the confusion. Naturally, Patnaik discovers "malicious attempts" to confuse all about the CPI-M among younger journalists who focus on the party's surrender to capitalism asserting that this error is not committed by "senior" perhaps tamer scribes. Sumanta Banerjee, a Left ideologue among veteran journalists in India, wrote a scathing critique of the CPI-M in EPW (26 Jan-1 February 2008) headlined Goodbye Socialism. On the rightward shift in West Bengal, he wrote: "The one-point agenda of industrialisation by putting only the market in command took centre stage, reaffirming the self-righteous approach of the party leadership. In fact, its refusal to listen to suggestions of substitute options for development was evident much earlier when it set its goons on Medha Patkar and other social activists who opposed the Singur and Nandigram model." But Patnaik too ~ like other run-of-the-mill Marxist leaders ~ believes that to criticise the CPI-M is to hatch a conspiracy against the Left Front government!
There is a similarity in the pattern of revolt in West Bengal and China. Both are against questionable land acquisition. CPI-M's long-term commitment to a socialist order via people's democratic revolution is buried in a recycle bin. It may be pertinent to recall an essay on peasant protests in 19th century Bengal by history scholar Nandini Sen in which it is mentioned that an editorial in the journal Somprakash, a leading fortnightly carrying forward the message of the Bengal Renaissance, the "similarity between the Chartist Movement in England and peasant protests of Bengal" was highlighted: "Both were against injustice". Communist historian Narahari Kaviraj found in the Somprakash editorial an element of internationalism of the 19th century Bengal Renaissance.
The famous slogan of the Communist Manifesto — "workers of the world unite" (i.e. proletarian internationalism) was discarded by the CPC from its lexicon nearly three decades back. The Communist Party of the erstwhile Soviet Union is dead. Lenin's extended slogan, "workers and oppressed peoples unite" keeping in mind the large peasant masses in the colonies has met the same fate. And the red flags of official Marxists are now pathetically pink. Their hammer-and-sickle prints are "strangely decontextualised" as representative of forces of revolution. As Sumana Roy, who teaches humanities at Jalpaiguri Engineering College, put it, Nandigram witnessed "a subculture of coercion, perfected from a fledgling cottage industry to a fine craft over the 30 years of Communist rule in Bengal". And poverty is growing, relatively, in Kerala too, suggests MA Oommen in a paper on the "Kerala model" presented at the University of Saskatchewan in June 2007. Reduction in poverty between pre-reform and the on-going reform period was more impressive in Himachal Pradesh than in Kerala. Subalterns are sandwiched in both Kerala and West Bengal. These are the facts.
Yet, CPI-M big shots find their role model in Deng Xiaoping who said: "Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious." Five-star communists who call the shots at AKG Bhavan, the CPI-M's national headquarters in New Delhi, dish out "kitchen sink revolutions" on an alibi that "times change". And what was that about the more times change, the more they remain the same...

(The author is a freelance contributor)

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[mukto-mona] Discussion,discord and decency.

I understand the last thing our Mukto Mona moderators want to do is to block some ones views from publishing in the forum. Our most enlightened moderators are very generous and brave persons who encourage us to open our minds without any fear and prejudice.

This is the most right attitude an open forum like Mukto Mona can be proud of. Human ideas are like the rainbows which bring wonderful shades of colours to enchant our thought process. Ideas remain dormant and useless if we do not bring them to the public to generate discussion, modification and enrichment. In this process ideas face criticism, censure, condemnations and even rejection too. Here an educated and enlightened person takes command of his views undeterred by criticism maintaining decency, decorum and posture. Occasionally we notice that this decorum is not properly maintained, anger takes command and consequently descend to personal attacks. This happens when our sense of proportion is exhausted, our goodness is overshadowed by anger and our stock of acceptable vocabulary becomes nil. To me personal attack is the most objectionable situation which hurts people and we lose respect for a person. For any self respecting person this is a very embarrassing situation and we all need to be careful that it does not happen to anyone.

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RE: [mukto-mona] Fw: On War Crime Issue

WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/47184

This is in response to Mr. Hannan's comments on trying the war criminals of 1971.

We can not and should not forget what the criminals of Jamati Islam did along with their master Pakistani goons during 1971. Yes they have gotten a easy ride thus far because of our nasty bitter politics for so many years unfortunately. What we have witnessed is these Razakars of 1971 got more and more arrogant and started justifying their horrendous crime for all this time instead of repenting. Why should we just forget about it? We should be able to try these criminals and focus on our economic affairs at the same time. This is what a civilized nation does; no crime should go unpunished. One can see, the criminals of 2nd world war are still being tried and the Jews did not fall behind just because they tried to go after them.

No Mr. Hanna Shah, we can not and should not forget about what your brethrens did during 1971 and they must be tried. I am just saddened, our CTG is not moving fast enough to start the process. Nizami, Mujahedin, Kader Mollah, Saydee gang must be tried. Sooner we do it better it would be for the nation. No doubt in that.....You should be ashamed Mr. Hannan Shah when you say no evidence of war crime can be found any way.... You must be kidding yourself or your guru Nizami gang!!!! 36 years is not all that long; many of the direct victims of 1971 are still alive. There are plenty of evidence and you will see it once the process starts.
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[mukto-mona] Taslima

Dr. Taslima showed the courage

Taslima Nasreen left India for Sweden.

It's a defeat for the democratic India & its civil society. India, its progressive forces could not save the women, thy name Taslima!

Its appeasing to militant Islamists & India did it again, where South Asia is heading?

Sitangshu Guha

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[mukto-mona] Free cartoonist Arifur Rahman the prisoner of conscious

I ask all who believes in freedom of expression to send their demand to caretaker government to free prisoner of conscious cartoonist Arifur Rahman immediately without any further delay. Government is going to frame case against jailed cartoonist on February 25^th 2008 based on blue print mastered by corrupt ex Adviser Moinul Hosein anti Islam religious traders Jamaat-e-Islami. We hope caretaker government will not give the religious bigots any platform and withdraw their case and free Arif.

The entire nation knows young cartoonist Arifur Rahman draw a simple cartoon from his creative inquisitive mind not to malice religion but just the opposite. He wanted to express his view that how out substandard religious trader's uses great religion Islam as pretext to ill influence creating a realm of religion to control.

We have seen these religious bigots attacked religious minority in our country anytime they can. Calling anyone Kafir even to Muslims and placing a head price is a common observable fact in so-called religious bigots meetings that take place in the north gate of Baitul Mukarrom mosque. This the place where its started from a stick holding stone throwing KAT Mullah's meeting where they called cartoonist Arif a murtad an enemy of Islam and wanted him to be hanged. So-called Barrister fallen Moinul Hosein one of the most corrupt Adviser the Bangladesh ever saw fanned the situation with the help of his political wing Jamaat-e-Islami leader then head imam of Baitul Mukarrom.

Caved in state law enforcement agencies arrested daily Prothom Alo cartoonist Arifur Rahman accusing his cartoon "hurting religious sentiments".

Evidently, mullahs in the poorest of the poorest country have more frightening influence over uneducated religious population and government then birthplace of Islam Mecca of Saudi Arab.

What an outrageous malicious steering of such a simple mater by mullahs and more contemptible action by

Bangladesh

government. What was there in the cartoon in Aalpin a Prothom Alo production? Gian Papi Barrister Moinul called it inflammatory and act of conspiratory plot to destabilize the calmness of the country and put country on fire! Really? Is there was something of that height of damaging nature in this cartoon? Let us examine one more time what was there in this text-based cartoon titled Naam (name) based on conversation between an elderly and a kid on its September of 2007 issue.

Elder person: Boy, what is your name?

Kid: My name is Babu.

Elder person: It is customary to mention Mohammed before the name.

Elder person: What is your father's name?

Kid: Mohammed Abu

Elder person: What is this in your lap?

Kid: Mohammed cat

To me it is a mere satire of our naming culture, which follows not religion in its essence but a false perception of religion. I see no sign of disgracing Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) or Islam through this cartoon called NAAM (name).

Islam and its prophets teachings have been violated many folds more in the hands of these mullahs in

Bangladesh

and elsewhere who is protesting this cartoon. You do not have to go far but read any daily news from

Bangladesh

and you will get how the sermon of these mullahs in the name of Fatwa destroyed so many innocent families. It is not cartoon or books, which brings bad name for Islam and its Prophet but the illiterate mullahs who defame our religion.

It is sometime ago, November of 1998 Kishor Kontho a monthly magazine of Islami Chatra Shibir printed a very similar joke. No one of these Islamic sole agents at that time or now demanded that author of that joke or the editor of the magazine should be brought to justice and magazine license should be revoked. Readers of that joke took it as mere fun with the spirit of the section titled "Hashir Baksho".

Please go to following web link to view Shibir cartoon

http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/Shamim_Chowdhury/mullah_double_standard.htm

Islam and its prophet Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) are not so fragile that a mere cartoon or few lines of text can damage its serenity. I rather see it was Barrister Moinul, powerful adviser of the government who played the role of The Pied Piper of Hamelin tuning his pipe to bring the worst out of ordinary. Moinul and probably the entire government wanted to divert the nation eyes on some less important matter to accomplish their hidden big agenda of the time.

Addressing Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) Chairman Mufti Fazlul Haq Amini, IOJ Vice President Maulana Muhammad Mahiuddin, and Secretary General Mufti Faizullah Bar Moinul Hosein said, "There is a conspiracy to create a dangerous and unwanted situation," Mainul said, adding, "Everyone has to remain united against the conspiracy to destabilize the country."

Despicable Bar Moinul the Bottolar ukil, this dishonest man with hidden agenda since his assumption of power as adviser until his rock bottom fall is making his every effort to divide the nation. Getting the mighty backing of the owner of tanks and gun is making him thinking invincible, not understanding his days will be over.

I like to take this opportunity to condemn Prothom Alo editor and publisher for not standing beside Arifur Rahman the young cartoonist and providing him with a lawyer to defend him. I ask all journalists of Prothom Alo and others to raise their voice against all injustice and attempt to divert a simple matter into a conspiratorial one.

I demand government free Mr. Arifur Rahman immediately and take proactive role rather then fanning the issue and fire Bar Moinul who is trying to destabilize the country.

Thanks

Shamim Chowdhury

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Re: [mukto-mona] Taslima Nasrin to leave India

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My earnest request and appeal wuld be to Taslima nasrin not to take hurried and hasty decission. This is precisely India and WB governments are waiting for. This would they grab as an oppurtunity to say that "we have not asked Ms Nasrin to leave the country. She is on her own leaving the country." The day Dr. Nasrin leaves India for West, it is the day of defeat for secular, liberal and democratic forces in India. Bbangladesh secularists & liberal democrats had already suffered a deat at the hands of the Islamist mollahs and fundamentalists. I will appeal to secula India not to allow to leave India, particularly in this crucial hours of hers. The secularits must demand that Ms Nasrin be given free atmosphere where she could breathe normally and reside with safety and with out fear. Let the government of India or her friends in India arrange for her proper medical traetment.

I will be writing to her soon urging her not to face defeat surrendering to the desire of Indian government and mollahs.

Ajoy Roy

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[ALOCHONA] WB & IMF Destroyed Jute Sector: Experts

Dear Mr. Hasnat

Thanks for your emotional and biased comments on my mail. Yes, I repeat that had these erudite Harvard trained economist were capable to steer the economy than we would not have suffered till date. There is a saying that morning shows the day but since our morning was covered with cloud by wrong decision of Nationalization of all industries(most of them were profitable) an depute illiterate/half educated "Administrators" on party cadres basis. The country saw the good (?) effect of such decision that all those industries became not only burden on the national exchequer but became junk yard.But the administrator's wallet were full. What else I can say about them. There are lot many decisions of then Planning Commission were not efficacious resulting in zero growth of economy. Of course then churi chamari was also a factor of impediment for such failure.

Please be sure that Bangladeshis are not fools to blame for every failed issues on the Porom Mitra India. There are reasons to do that. It will require pages to explain. Just I want to request you to please cite a single example where India had acted as a helping hand to augment Bangladesh's causes either bilaterally, regionally or internationally. You will find none. I am sure that's one of the reason amongst many that people of Bangladesh(except the pro? people) have become anti-india.

You refer that after the post 1975 the Razakar Janwars took opportunity cunningly to undo all the good works and tried best to make united Pakistan. This a laughing story for the kids for kids of 3 year old !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is a concocted story made by the Chetona who wish to hold the sole agency ship of War of independence. But when these people do hobnob and get their offshoots married to Razakar Janwar's (Beai Mosharaf of Khulna) son then there is no harm. The problem with our so-called intellectuals(Budhdhi jibis) and political activists that there is no tolerance to others opinion(which is called real democracy) and that resulted in the disastrous decision of Sheikh Mujib to strangulate the holy constitution to establish the Monster BAKSAL.

Dear Mr. Hasnat in your attitude it appears that you have lost your temper and made comments against me which does not fall under decency without evaluating the intricate meaning of my write up. Just as practiced by Awami League activists that opposers are to be termed as Razakar etc etc you did that. You termed me as "Dumber" plus pro janwar Golam Azam. This is highly objectionable, indecent and beyond norms of debate.I would request you to behave sane.

Dear friend, have you ever asked or censured Sheikh Hasina who had joint press conference with Janwar Nizami and met Janwar Golam Azam presenting Holy Quran to seek his blessings for the election and signed the agreement with Islamic Fundamentalist to allow "Fatwas" to supersede over the existing Law. These are not my statements it was published in news papers with picture). No, you didn't or could'nt as most of you believe in the theory of "King can do no wrong".

You have all the right to believe in the philosophy on party line basis but please do not try to impose those on others like monster BAKSAL. Now people have become much conscious that they don't care whether it is BNP or Awami League. They want people with right and honest commitment to steer the country for whom ocean of blood have been shed. Jonogon wants chors, chechors, thugs, mastans and Dalal's either of India or Pakistan out from political scenario of Bangladesh
Please be it known that no single individual or party or parties can claim the sole agency ship of the Shadhinata Judhdha. It was the joint and committed effort of Chatra - Janata - Sipahi - rajnitibid's to fight against the Bestial Paki forces.

Finally, Mr. Hasnat if you wish to continue discussion than I will request you to be tolerant and open and decent and not abuse opponent which depicts ill minds.

With regards and best wishes

Faruque Alamgir

Capt S S Hasnat <capt.hasnat@ctg.mghgroup.com> wrote:

Dear Mr.Faruque Alamgir

Please advise what happened to planning of the country, revival of
jute industry after 1975 !!!!! Post 1975 - it was and still the
war-criminals or more precisely the hyenas known as Jamaat /Rejakars
and Albadrs who very cunningly took the helm of the country in
disguise and brought the total disaster to take revenge of their lost
interest in 1971 . Isn't it Mr.Alamgir? However, they always used
the weapon 'hate India" or "blame it to India" to cover up their bad
intentions and to get popular support. Gentleman this is no more
working now. Things are very much visible now - thanks to advanced
information technology. People also became much smarter and rational
and responsive. Mr.Alamagir - your usual scrap of blaming what
happened 35 yrs ago for the present condition of jute industry proves
that you are dumber than a 3 yr old. And you dare to call a Harvard
Ph.D a duffer !!!!!!! Shame on you!!!! Try to show respect
dear. Thats one thing you people (all war-criminals and
associates) lack. You people do not want to respect our liberation
war (you people name it civil war), neither want to respect
Bangladesh as an independent country ( still dream of united
pakistan) nor like to respect its honoured citizens and intellectuals
(for you Golam Azam (MF) is the most intellectual person ever born in
east-pakistan). Sorry chap - you are not winning anymore. Try your
tricks somewhere else. One thing I can suggest - to make your dream
partly true - try to convince your soul-land Pakistan to accept
following proposals for unification:
1. The entire country will be called Bangladesh. They will be called
West-Bangladesh.
2. Only official language will be Bengali.
3. Capital will be Dhaka.
4. All business and economy will be controlled from Dhaka.
5. People of West-Bangladesh origin will be issued with limited
passports to travel around.
6. People of West-Bangladesh origin will be treated as 2nd class citizen.
7. 85% of blue colored government jobs will be earmarked for people
of East-Bangladesh origin.
8. Army force will be majorly dominated by East-Bangaldeshi
people. Only one West-Bangladesh regiment will be there consisting
mainly of panjabi people.
9. West-Bangladesh will be frequently screwed by Bangladesh police force.

Please try to convince your soulmates to accept above. Then we can
have a dream Bangladesh and devil India would never dare to harm us in anyway.

rgds

At 12:44 AM 3/18/2008, Faruque Alamgir wrote:

>Friends
>
>Since day one Bangladesh was steered by people who neither
>expreience nor expertise and the main one was none any commitment to
>the nation. Every action was taken politically,economically and
>socially was to please the "POROM MITRA INDIA".
>
>Sheikh Mujib appointed four duffer economists like Dr. Nurul
>Islam(Harvard P.hd), Dr. Mosharraf Hossain,Dr. Anisur Rahman, and
>the great non-Bengali Dr. Rehman Sobhan as the Dy. Chairman and
>Members of then Planning Commission.
>These quadrplets with Amarican knowledge of economy took the first
>bluderous decision of Nationalisation of all Indutrial sectors. That
>was the begining of the stepping down and collapse of all the main
>industries specially the "Jute". Our Jute industries was being
>closed one by one in three years 1972-75 and the dead Jute
>industries in the Bank of ganga(Calcurtta) started reviving.
>It is needless to say that all these decision were taken to pay off
>debt of the leaders of BAL for their refuge and rajokiuo tosaroki
>during 1971by Porom Mitra but at the cost of the newly born country.
>For the crime Bangladesh is still suffering as our back bone was
>crushed under illegitimate friendship?????????
>
>These are few instances of trecherous role of post independence BAL
>to make Bangladesh a "Bottom Less Busket" and make Bangladesh a
>subservient country under the tutelage of the Porom Mitra".
>
>So, friends it is of no use to blame IMF/WB the DFI's.Now this
>question is being raised by the pro BAL labour leaders who reaped
>the benifit by creating chaos in the industrial sector then. This is
>nothing but to become hero by shifting the blame of crime committed
>by them onto others. That is the characteristics of BAL and it's
>lezur Shoe jibis etc.
>
>Faruque Alamgir
>
>Isha Khan <bd_mailer@yahoo.com> wrote:
>WB & IMF Destroyed Jute Sector: Experts
>...a move is underway to disclose the list of corrupt suspects
>responsible for ruination of the jute industry this month
>
>
>The World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a
>planned way are destroying country's jute sector in a bid to make
>Bangladesh foreign aid dependent and create India's jute export in
>the global market. "WB does not want to see Bangladesh grow as an
>industrial country. On the other hand WB maintains a good relation
>with India; it is encouraging the country to set up more jute
>mills.(The Bangladesh Today)
>
>But at the same time it is pressurising Bangladesh to close down the
>jute mills. But we are surprised very much when we see that
>Bangladesh government is playing its role as a silent spectator. But
>our climate is very much favourable for growing of the finest jute
>in the world," economists, jute experts and political leaders told
>journalists at a press briefing held at the Dhaka Reporters Unity on Sunday.
>
>Under the banner of "Peoples Commission on Jute and Jute Industry"
>Economist Anu Mohammad, Justice Mohammad Golam Rabbani, Jute Expert
>Shah Alam and Communist Party of Bangladesh leader Shahidullah
>Chowdhury talked to the journalist about the latest condition of the
>jute sector.
>
>They said at present, there are 22 jute mills under the Bangladesh
>Jute Mills Corporation with over 43,000 workers and employees on its
>pay roll. Of them seven have already been closed down. Two are on
>the process of leasing out to the private sector, they said adding a
>few other jute mills are run by the private sector.
>
>"At least 28 lakh ( 2.8 million )workers, employees and officials
>were directly and indirectly involved in the jute industries in
>1982. But within 24 years, 27.5 lakh workers, employees and
>officials became jobless or retrenched following the closure of the
>jute mills," they added.
>
>Expressing grave concern they said many jute industrial belts
>including Khulna, Sirajganj and Chittagong have turned into a bleak
>and desolate landscape with the workers, employees and officers of
>jute mills with their family members passing days without food,
>house and treatment due to nonpayment of salaries, leading to the
>deaths of nine workers from starvation.
>
>It is learnt that in fiscal year 1972-73, Bangladesh had produced
>0.45 million tonnes of jute products, but by 2005-06 fiscal
>production had declined to only 0.15 million tonnes. On the other
>hand Indian production had increased by nearly 60 per cent in the
>period to 1.6 million tonnes.
>
>Meanwhile, the present caretaker government has decided in principle
>to cut the number of workers in public sector jute mills by 50 per
>cent to make the state-owned mills, now reeling under perennial
>losses, commercially viable.
>
>It may be pointed out jute has once been the called golden fibre of
>Bangladesh and the farmers used to call it a cash crop. The previous
>government shut down the country's largest Adamjee Jute Mills due to
>mismanagement and corruption.
>
>Meanwhile, a move is underway to disclose the list of corrupt
>suspects responsible for ruination of the jute industry this month.
>"We are continuing investigation at various levels to identify the
>corrupt suspects in jute sector and hope that the identity of many
>corrupt suspects would be disclosed this month", BJMC Chairman
>Ataharul Islam told The Bangladesh Today over phone on Sunday.
>Sources said inquiries are going on against store officers, Project
>Chief, Engineer, Accountants, Jute officers, Scale Man, Production
>Manager and Quality Controller under the Bangladesh Jute Mills
>Corporation (BJMC). There are massive allegations of
>misappropriating crores of Tk. against these officials who have
>pushed the jute sector on the verge of ruination, sources said.
>
>Sources said the officials in the state-run jute mills have built
>magnificent houses at Gulshan and Banani. If enquiries are carried
>out fairly and are made public, corruption in the jute sector will
>come out, sources said. "We will at first recover the finance from
>the corrupt suspects and afterwards we will refer cases to the
>Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for taking legal action", the BJMC
>chairman said.
>
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[mukto-mona] Einstein and Religion {Bangla}/English

Hi,

I was able to translate one of the briliant pieces
Albert Einstein had produced on Religion and Science.
The link or bridge between these two, as per his
claim, could be the Cosmic Religion.

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And the English version of the same can be found in :
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Actually there are more than the essay I translated. I
invite everyone to read the wonderful essays from one
of the best thinkers of all time.

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[mukto-mona] Taslima spk

Yesterday, reacting to Taslima Nusreen's poem, Bibhas Chakraborty, wellknown drama director, actor and playwright, who had been a fellow-traveller of CPI(M) until the Singur tragedy, told at a gathering of intellectuals and performing artists, " In 1942, Gandhiji gave the call of Quit India against the British colonialists. The communists didn't support it. Today, pathetically, the call to Taslima is 'Quit India'. There is no difference between the communists (he means CPI(M) mainly) and Congress. I am ashamed of being an Indian.

Taslima wrote this story, frontpaged by The Statesman today.
Sankar Ray

Need to escape from death chamber (http://thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1&theme=&usrsess=1&id=195674)

Taslima Nasreen
(My last testament on being forcibly driven out from my adopted homeland Bharatvarsha by the Indian State.)

I used to call this the torture chamber. I gradually came to realise that it was the chamber of death instead. I was not even allowed to stay in hospital for long though the doctors felt it was necessary in order to stabilise my blood pressure. But then, orders are orders and the government did not want to be inconvenienced by me in any way whatsoever. The government did not want the media to know I had been hospitalised. I did not have my mobile phone with me and the doctors at the government's hospital -AIIMS - were instructed to discharge me after a certain period of time. Curiously though, the decision was not left to the doctors as to what this certain period of time was to be. The last time I was admitted to this hospital a few weeks ago I was suddenly discharged as a result of governmental pressure. I am sure this was linked to a report in The Times of India which stated I had been hospitalised.
At this undisclosed location I am neither allowed to go to a doctor for consultation nor is one allowed to come to me. I suffer from severely fluctuating blood pressure and the strange thing is that I was not even allowed to speak to any of the doctors at the hospital over the telephone. Even after repeated requests I was not given a single phone number. When I was in hospital, I asked the doctors if I could call them if necessary but they said that they were not allowed to hand out their numbers. I had to make enquiries through officials to get even the simplest of answers from these doctors. I have suffered tremendously both physically and mentally. My blood pressure is now impossible to control. The doctors say it is due to stress which I must avoid at all costs. How can I not be stressed when everything is continuously stressing me out? I am brought to this place and incarcerated like some animal; my human rights constantly and continually violated. I am not allowed to step out or meet anyone. How can I not be stressed? I received the extension of my resident's permit, but the status quo continued.
Because of stress-related high blood pressure, I developed heart disease (hypertrophy), and hypertensive retinopathy, which will make me blind. As you may know uncontrolled blood pressure destroys heart, kidney and eyes.
You should know that my blood pressure was always controlled before, all the organs of my body were healthy.
After coming back from the hospital, I wanted to leave this country as soon as possible, because it is not possible to live in this prison without stress. I requested the government officials that I need to collect my important documents from my home in Kolkata, and secure my property, but they are not allowing me to go to Kolkata for 'SECURITY REASONS', not even for a few hours.

THEY FINALLY DID IT
Even though they constantly pressured me mentally to leave the country, I refused to budge. I was determined I would not leave this country. When they saw it was pointless trying to destroy my mind, they attempted to destroy my body. In this they succeeded by ruining my health which leaves me with no other alternative but to leave this country.
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