1. "Some of these developments were also possible mainly through the fundamentalist Hindu Buddhist Christian Oikya Porished of Bangladesh aligned with the BJP of India." Seems to be unfounded. Can you give any evidences? 2. Communists, RAW, Buddhist fundamentalism, etc. have been blamed for the present situation in CHT. But the root causes have not been searched much, the curse of Kaptai dam and Mujib's chauvinistic attitude (tomra bangali hoye jao) that angered the CHT people have been mentioned though. The author has however not mentioned the notorious planned settlement of Bengalis from the plains in the hills initiated by Zia. 3. I will suggest the author to watch the documentary "Karnaphulir Kanna" by Tanvir Mokammel. The BNP govt. did not let the documentary to see the light of day. In the documentary it has been shown that there is no problem with the Bengalis who have been living in CHT for a long time. The problem or grievance is with the new settlement policies only and the excesses done by army, law enforcement agencies, and the new settlers.
are you sure they are Awami League? I have heard that BNP boys broke cars for their demand to free noble Tareq zia and Begum Zia. 2008/8/11 Jamil Ahmed <jamil_dhaka@yahoo.com> |
Did you expected any different ? Where is our Awami League leaders ?
They are coming soon to run the country. May Allah bless our people. From: Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com>
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Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2008, 1:10 PM Friends, To get the poor and beggers out of the reach of the rich in front of almost all the rich peoplee's house there is a sign BoaRd hangs "KUKUR HOITEY SHABSHAN". Bangladeshis HUSHIAR SHABSHAN HUSHIAR from the sonar peace loving, democratic and patriot cheleys of Mujib. Look look and look and amazed how the SONAR CHELEYS are serving the Bangladesh created only by their leader Mujib(as claimed). Faruque Alamgir On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:09 PM, Ezajur Rahman <ezajur.rahman@q8.com> wrote: BCL confines Dhaka Univ VC,
demands release of gen secy
Courtesy New Age 6/8/08 DU Correspondent Bangladesh Chhatra League activists confined the Dhaka University vice-chancellor to the administrative building for three hours on Tuesday and damaged his office and several vehicles, demanding release of their detained general secretary.
They later released the vice-chancellor, SMA Faiz, at around 7:00pm, but called a strike on the campus for Wednesday.
Faiz, after freed from confinement, told reporters he would try to contact right persons to deal with the matter.
He said an academic atmosphere was prevailing on the campus and all should work not to make it volatile.
Although Faiz did not name any person, campus sources said he had a meeting with the education adviser, Hossain Zillur Rahman.
The social sciences dean, Harun-or-Rashid, accompanied him, according to the sources.
After freeing Faiz from confinement, the Chhatra League activists were out on demonstrations at the vice-chancellor's office till 10:00pm.
The Chhatra League president, Mahmudul Hasan Ripon, said they had suspended their rally there at 10:30pm at the vice-chancellor's assurance of a positive result by Wednesday noon.
About 150 leaders and supporters of Chhatra League, the student wing of the Awami League, brought out a procession on the campus and went to the administrative building and besieged it because their detained general secretary, Mahfuzul Haider Chowdhury Roton, was re-arrested after his release from Mymensingh Jail.
The activists also damaged the teachers' cars parked outside the administrative building and on Fuller Road, broke the windowpanes of the building and locked the main gates with the vice-chancellor and other university officials inside the building.
They also gathered some piles of garbage and set fire to them.
The police positioned themselves on the campus after the BCL activists surrounded the building, but later withdrew. They then took up positions outside the campus, across the road near the Teacher-Student Centre and also at Nilkhet.
The acting general secretary of the BCL, Abul Kalam, told New Age that Roton was freed from Mymensingh Jail at about 10:30am on Tuesday, but was confined in the visiting room. The police later re-arrested him from there at around 2:30pm, said Kalam.
The news prompted the BCL activists to march to the vice-chancellor's office. They said they would continue their protest until Roton was released.
Abul Kalam told New Age that Manobadhiker Shachetan Shiksharthy Brindo, a BCL-backed platform, has called for student strike for Wednesday in Dhaka University to press for release of Roton.
The joint forces arrested Roton on Jan 18, 2007 on charge of violating the Emergency Powers Rules. |
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Dear all, interesting news for all who love BAL. Khulna Correspondent
The recovery of 77 counterfoils of ballot papers and three completely used books (Muri) of August 4 mayoral election from roadside in Khulna city on Sunday night came as big surprise to the city people.
These ballot papers and muri books have raised question in different quarters and many are smelling a rat in the incident at a time when the mayoral election took place in four cities including Khulna and nine municipalities under the state of emergency and amid almost flawless security.
Local sources said that the counterfoils of the ballot papers and the muri book were found abandoned near the Udayana Club at Haji Mohsin Road at 11 PM.
Some locals detected the papers and handed then over to the Kotwali thana. Officials said the muri book was supposed to be packed with the used ballots for tally, if necessary.
Md.Abu Jafar, election agent of mayoral candidate Moniruzzaman Moni, who is also acting Mayor of Khulna city, filed two general diaries with the police in this connection.
When contacted, Deputy Election Commissioiner Mohsin Ali said the matter was now under investigation.
Sources said the ballot papers contained thumb impressions but no signature of voters. Moreover, these papers bore no seals of the Election Commission. But the serial numbers in the abandoned ballot papers were similar to those supplied from the election office, sources added.
The Deputy Election Commissioner termed the whole episode mysterious. He could not confirm readily whether these ballot papers were genuine or fake. These ballot papers were stated to have been issued from number 8 polling centre under Ward number two of the city.
When contacted, Moni told The New Nation that the matter now lay with the Election Commission and the law enforcing agencies and he has nothing to comment.
The recovery of the abandoned ballot papers drew fire from the supporters of Moni and they thought foul play in the matter to rig the election and defeat Moni.
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WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/49351 1. I will not call Rushdie's going to court a fatwa. Fatwa has been against Rushdie and Taslima. Instead of issuing fatwa, one should resort to the law of the land. One ex Police Officer of WB sued Sunil Ganguly for saying some thing about the Hindu goddess Saraswati. The Police Officer decided that his religious feelings were hurt and he acted in a civilized manner.
2. Every one does not have to agree with Rushdie on every thing. There are allegations that he distorts history. He indulges in imagination to such an extent that his description loses all touch of reality and defies historical facts. I had a chance to read a critical review of one of his latest pieces that involved Akbar in the Desh. Yes, that is what should be done. Go to court or critique him and his works.
3. The author of the article has asserted that "the point was that each society had its own inviolable sanctities and sacred imaginations which define, to a large extent, the collective subconscious of people identified as a single bloc by virtue of nationhood, religion, culture or whatever." If this has to be strictly followed, then no scientific progress is possible.
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Taslima Nasrin's Return to India � A Brief Comment - Mehul Kamdar Renowned Bangladesh-born writer and humanist Dr Taslima Nasrin returned to India after being held under virtual house-imprisonment for several months prior to her departure from India in March this year. When she was unceremoniously bundled out of the country to Sweden, she had declared, �I will come to India in July or August. Leaving India permanently means death to me. After coming, I will see whether I will be allowed to enter Kolkata or not.� The reason for her return was very significant: her Indian visa was valid only until August 12th, and before she left, the Indian government had been loath to renew or extend it under pressure from its allies, some of the most fundamentalist Muslim organisations in India and the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Dr Nasrin had, in fact, applied for Indian citizenship before she was deported to Sweden. This had been denied to her and the Communists and the Muslim organisations had been unambiguous in their demand that she be expelled from the country. The Communists had banned some of her writing in the state of West Bengal some years earlier and Muslim organisations had attacked Dr Nasrin in full view of the television cameras and the media at a public function in the state of Andhra Pradesh ruled by the Congresss Party in what was clearly an attempt at killing her. How had the Indian government reacted at the time? It had allowed the government of Andhra Pradesh to file several cases, not against those who tried to brutalise Dr Nasrin, (this including legislators of a party that is a Congress ally much as the Communists were Congress allies at the time) but against Dr Nasrin herself on completely trumped up charges. There were clear reasons for this at the time. The Communists had been responsible for grabbing land owned by India's minority Muslim community at Nandigram and Singur in West Bengal, and for the subsequent brutal intimidation of those who had been dispossessed from land ownership by members of their party and by the West Bengal police, in a public display of thuggish behaviour. The Communists conveniently made peace with the Islamists in India by bartering Dr Nasrin's expulsion from the country (something that the Islamists had been demanding for some time) for their silence on the killing of Muslims and the thievery of their land. Since then, the Communists had very nearly brought down the Indian Central government over the government's signing of a key nuclear treaty with the USA to the displeasure of the Chinese and of Indian leftists. In West Bengal itself, in local elections, the Communists had done rather badly for the first time in decades during which they had established a vice-like grip over the state. After being cautious allies for the better part of four years, the Congress and the Communists had suddenly become enemies in the run up to a General Election in 2009 which is likely to be hard-fought and which could go any way in India's fractured political scenario. The Congress had fallen back on an old ploy of playing one group against another by offering land to Hindus to worship at a temple in the predominantly Muslim state of Jammu and Kashmir hoping to get crucial Hindu votes because they were unsure of Muslim support in the coming elections. This is a ploy that ahs been used by the Congress in the past. The late Rajiv Gandhi's government reopened the Babri Masjid during the closing years of his term as Prime Minister to allow Hindu groups to place a Shivalinga there and allow worship when Muslim groups became furious with the government over the Indian Supreme Court's insistence that divorced Muslim women had a right to receive alimony from their ex-husbands in the Shah Bano's case. Not only did the Congress pass the so-called �Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act of 1986 which effectively nullified the Supreme Court's judgement at the time, the party also tried to curry favour with Islamists by banning Salman Rushdie's book, �The Satanic Verses� well before any Muslim country banned it and Iran issued a fatwa on his head. This time, it has found another formerly Muslim author to play these games with in Dr Nasrin. The deviousness of the Congress stand has been most interesting. Pranab Mukherjee, the Minister for External Affairs and the seniormost Bengali politician in the Central government, has been talking out of both sides of his mouth in the past few days over Dr Nasrin's return. He ahs been reported in the Bangladeshi media as saying that he hoped that Dr Nasrin would �not cause any trouble.� In words that have been reported in the Bangladeshi media, he is supposed to have said, �It is not possible for the Foreign Minister of a country to keep track of the country's guests. It is for them [the guests] to decide. We expect our guest not to do anything which (sic) is causing a problem to any of our citizen (sic) and there will no problem (sic) due to his or her stay in the country.� To India's liberals and to the rest of the world, Mr Mukherjee spoke out of the opposite side of his mouth with vaarious statements attributed to him by different sections of the media. India's Communist run newspaper �The Hindu� quoted him as saying, �Everyone is welcome to stay in the country provided they remain within their limits.� To the Asian Age, a newspaper formerly run by a Congress Party pamphleteer and Rajiv Gandhi sycophant M J Akbar, he said, �It is our tradition that we give shelter to anyone who seeks it but we also expect our guest to refrain from doing or saying something which may create problems for our countrymen.� To the Tribune, a powerful newspaper in Western India, he is supposed to have commented that Dr Nasrin could live anywhere in India, but this was contradicted when the minister told the Asian Age that it was upto West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee (one of those directly responsible for the thuggish hounding of Dr Nasrin) whether, indeed, she could return to Kolkata. It is clear that the Congress Party and the Indian government that it heads, are playing a cynical game using Dr Nasrin as a political football of sorts. Despite Mr Mukherjee's pompous assertions that Dr Nasrin could live anywhere she chose, she has been whisked away by Indian intelligence officials and held at some undisclosed location in virtual captivity. India cannot afford to look like the thuggish state that it is with the ratification of the nuclear agreement pending in the US Congress, where the majority Democratic Party is ambivalent about it. Democratic Party mouthpieces like The New York Times have slammed the agreement and openly campaigned for the USA to drop it. Any mention of the treatment meted out to a woman writer in the US media would evoke loud cries and possibly encourage anti treaty sentiment in a party and a media that is opposed to any form of fascist and misogynistic behaviour anywhere in the world. It is in this background that the two-faced attitude of the Indian government and its flip-flops over Dr Nasrin have to be judged.
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Well, if their Wages have been more than doubled, it doesn't sound too much compared to Kuwait's Per Capita Income (over $ 28,000 a year) but still its $ 149 or 10,250 Taka a month now. Embassy should watching-over their Living Conditions besides keep trying to raise their Wages because definitely Kuwait can afford more. Bangladeshi educated class should be told, this is not the situation in Western Countries and there's much higher Minimum Wage compared to Per Capita Income of those countries. For Example less than $ 24,000 yearly Earnings of family of 4 qualifies it Welfare Money, Food Stamps, Free Medical and other compensations in USA. Federal Minimum Wage is $ 6.50 an hour but in some States its as high as $ 7.50 and nobody can dare to pay them less than that. $ 6.50 means, $ 13,500 a year. Similar are wages in Canada. Wages are higher than that in Scandanavian countries. Even in Russia people make $ 1,000 a month now so, why just depend on Middle Estern Countries, where Foreign Workers are being treated like vitual Slaves?
Nafiul Islam <night_hawk109@yahoo.com> wrote: The issue about blaming the embassy in Kuwait has become the go of
the day, but truth is that the Bangladeshi workers made a successful
effort in raising their salaries from 18 KD to 40 KD, which was
claimed by the Kuwait government itself.
The channels in Bangldesh like channel I is always claiming that the
Bangladesh embassy has failed and does nothing that does anything
good for bangladesh the 'talkbaj'es of Bangladesh have no or limited
knowledge on the issue at hand in kuwait and bangladesh.They always
go with the popular saying that 'The embassy did not do anything'
or 'The embassy is useless' the truth why about 313 bangladeshis have
been sent back is that after the claim of 40 KD minimum wage was
fixed, the people were not happy and they started beating up the
police who shared food and drinking water with the workers and so the
people who were found giulty were sent back to Bangladesh.
The point i am trying to make is that the Embassy has no fault in
this. The embassy workers pleaded with the workers to return to work
but they refused and this is when the situation got out of hand.
The reason why so many bangladeshis came to work in kuwait for 18 KD
is becasue of the corrupt 'adom baparis' of bangladesh, who gave
money to the minister so that they could ship these poor workers to
kuwait.
Now the problem has built up over a long time and all this has to be
handled by the embasssy!!!!! What is bangladesh thinking, does it
think that the bangladesh embassy is god or something?
And is it not an achievement that 80 to 90 thousand people have
returned to work and that the rights are restored.
The Bangladesh Embassy has set a minimum if 50 KD that workers must
have before they come into kuwait but the corrupt people got these
people into kuwait under their noses.
In the end fo the day the corrupt people are making millions and the
poor embassy people have to take the blame, they have limited power
and limited manpower, heck they do not even have an ambassador and i
salute the CDA for doing such a wonderful job.
P.S
Next time u go on blaming the embassy think about what u r saying.
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Dhaka, 11 August 2008 :
Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities (HRCBM), an NGO in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, has by its Bangladesh Chapter's Secretary General Mr Rabindranath Trivedi, who is an ex additional secretary to the Government of Bangladesh, filed a writ petition to the High Court Division bearing Writ Petition No 6092 of 2008 on Sunday the 10th August 2008.
According to the reliable source that the bench constituted with Hon'ble Justice Mr. Khademul Islam and Hon'ble Justice Mr Masuk Hossain Ahmed of High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, have received the writ petition for hearing.
The Vested Property Act represents a major source of insecurity and of human rights violation against the Hindu community. It is clear that the Vested Property Act (VPA) is detrimental to minorities and to the religious harmony of Bangladesh.
Former Deputy Attorney General of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh and a renowned lawyer Barrister Nikhilesh Dutta will move the writ case on behalf of the petitioner.
It may be recalled that VPA derives from the Enemy Property (Custody and Registration) Order II of 1965, promulgated in Pakistan following a brief war between India and Pakistan in September 1965. This order was directed against the Hindu minority (perceived as an enemy), and was used as an instrument for appropriating land belonging to Hindus accused of supporting India.
After Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan, President of Bangladesh in his Order No-29 of 1972 ,changed the nomenclature to Vested Property Act ,without altering the contain of the law. The Government of Bangladesh has, within the framework of this law, taken possession of property declared to belong to the enemy, by appropriating the property of members of the Hindu minority who had migrated to India, or by appropriating the property of people who were heirs or co –owners Furthermore, to this day, interest groups of political parties in power and individuals continue to appropriate property belonging to the Hindu community, and indeed to do so with the complicity of the authorities and the influential people. In a significant number of cases, Hindus are dispossessed of their property, even when they are the legal owners of such assets. At least two million acres of land have been seized from Hindu landowners under Vested Property Act.   |
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
-Beatrice Hall [pseudonym: S.G. Tallentyre], 190  __,_._,___
Friends Comparing erudite,prudent,patriot,dignified and successful statesman
like Mohathir Mohammed & Nelson Mendela with
rough,indecent,incapable,rude,corrupt Hasina is nothing but tantamount
to insult the mentioned world leaders. That reminds the popular saying " Kothai Agartola kothai
chowkirtola".People should stop being blind to the effect to lose ones
own entity. Faruque Alamgir On 8/11/08, Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:
> wrt: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notun_bangladesh/message/15969
>
> Mr. Ayubi
>
> *On a point of order:*
>
> *Besides many prizes and awards Nelson Mandela has received about 41
> honorary doctorates from various Universities around the world.*
> **
> *Matahir Mohammad has also received a few honorary doctorates from *
> *his native Malayasia & **abroad.*
>
> *Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad received*
> Honorary Doctorate of Knowledge Science from Syiah Kuala University
> (Unsyiah) ,
>
> *By the way, please do not confuse between an earned PhD and an honorary *
> *doctorate.*
>
> Syed Aslam
>
>
> On 8/9/08, Salahuddin Ayubi <s_ayubi786@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> If the *PhD s are distributed free* than why is it not conferred to
>> other leader of the world. There had been some very cometent lesaders E.G
>> Mr. Lee Kuan Yew, *Mahathir Mohammad*, *Nelson Mandela,* Julius Nyreri,
>> Ben Bella, Park Chung Hee only to metion a few. Can he explain as to why
>> these leaders were not conferred with doctorates? Hasinas status is that
>> of
>> a pygmy in fronot of those leaders.
>> Ayubi
>>
>> --- On *Fri, 8/8/08, Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com>* wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Faruque Alamgir <faruquealamgir@gmail.com>
>> Subject: [notun_bangladesh] Re: FW: [ALOCHONA] Re: [chottala.com] Ph.D.
>> To: chottala@yahoogroups.com, "notun Bangladesh" <
>> notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com>, "dahuk dahuk" <dahuk@yahoogroups.com>,
>> dhakamails@yahoogroups.com, diagnose@yahoogroups.com, "Biplob Kuddus" <
>> vinnomot@yahoogroups.com>, "wideminds" <WideMinds@yahoogroups.com>
>> Cc: "bd_nokia_club YG" <bd_nokia_club@yahoogroups.com>, "
>> buetian_WDC@yahoogroups.com" <buetian_wdc@yahoogroups.com>
>> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 3:53 PM
>>
>> Friends
>>
>> Is there is any sane person other than die hard supporter of Sheik Hasina
>> who supports the statement as stated by one of her supporter :
>> Quote :
>>
>> (16) I am absolutely not the member of any political parties, and
>> certainly
>> not, of Awwami League. But I am sure,* Sheikh Hasina did not have to pay
>> any money to earn all these honorary Ph. D.* Degrees. *She must have some
>> qualities, political or otherwise, that became evident to these University
>> administrations, and thus she were awarded these Ph. D. Degrees.* IT
>> SHOULD BE GREETED RATHER THAN DENOUNCE, BY ALL (FRIENDS & FOES).
>>
>> from a child to adult who are concerned with Bangladesh knows that she
>> spent million in Dollar to organize these degrees. Plus it reminds me a
>> joke
>> of the witty Dhakai Garwans on the Point *"She(Hasina) must have some
>> qualities, political or otherwise"*
>>
>> Once a Garwan(Ghora Gari wala) was bargaining with a passenger just
>> arrived
>> from village. The Garwan asked for an exhorbitant fare and in reply the
>> would be passenger told a price which made the Garwan immediately make
>> remarks that *" Oi Sab ashtey koien aponar kotha hunley Ghora bhi
>> hasbo".*Had that garwan was alive today and heard or read the red marked
>> comments
>> then probably he would have repeated the same comments as above.
>>
>> Faruque Alamgir
>>
>>
>>
>> **
>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:28 AM, Kajimel Raisuddin <Kraisuddin@hotmail.
>> com <Kraisuddin@hotmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This issue has really gone too far. Is there really any merits of all
>>> talks (good or bad) about someone's (Netri or whatever) honorary Ph. D.
>>> degree? How we are contributing in nation building being engaged in such
>>> low
>>> issues.
>>>
>>> Folks, please take a minute and go through my list below:
>>>
>>> (1) Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) degrees are not all alike.
>>> (2) In American and Canada, a graduate students have to pass graduate
>>> level courses (core & optional) worth 100 or more credits (again
>>> different
>>> for semester and quarter systems).
>>> (3) To pass qualifying examinations.
>>> (4) To do research and write a dissertation.
>>> (5) A committee approves the Ph. D. degree upon fulfillment of all
>>> requirements. It takes usually 4 to 5 years to complete the degree.
>>> ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _______
>>> (6) In England, Europe, Australia, and in many other countries, passing
>>> graduate level courses are not required.
>>> (7) They just do research and write the dissertation or doctoral thesis.
>>> (8) Ph. D. Degree is awarded upon acceptance of the the dissertation or
>>> doctoral thesis.
>>> ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _______
>>> (9) These are some of the processes how Ph. D. Degree is awarded to the *
>>> STUDENTS*.
>>> ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _______
>>> (10) However, many universities around the world, in almost all
>>> countries,
>>> the Ph. D. degree is awarded as honorarium too.
>>> (11) These are not real degree, these are honorary degrees only.
>>> (12) In all Universities, the professors have to have a Ph. D. Degree in
>>> order to teach higher level courses, and to be tenured in the tenure
>>> track
>>> positions, towards going to be the full professor.
>>> (13) However, honorary Ph. D. degree holders are not considered in any
>>> Universities to do professorship, in the subject, to which Ph. D. degree
>>> is
>>> awarded.
>>> (14) Honorary Ph. D. Degree can not be pursued, passed, asked for, or
>>> bought (as some people suspect).
>>> (15) This is entirely on the evaluation of the University, based on some
>>> remarkable and observable merits of the candidate, on which he/she is
>>> honored by awarding a honorary Ph. D. degree.
>>> ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________
>>> _
>>> (16) I am absolutely not the member of any political parties, and
>>> certainly not, of Awwami League. But I am sure, Sheikh Hasina did not
>>> have
>>> to pay any money to earn all these honorary Ph. D. Degrees. She must have
>>> some qualities, political or otherwise, that became evident to these
>>> University administrations, and thus she were awarded these Ph. D.
>>> Degrees.
>>> IT SHOULD BE GREETED RATHER THAN DENOUNCE, BY ALL (FRIENDS & FOES).
>>> ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________
>>> _
>>> (17) I just don't understand, why we are crying so much, with some false
>>> reasoning. WE MUST HAVE BEEN BAFLED SOMEWAY.
>>> (18) We had better be educated, before opening our mouths, and to cause
>>> sore of this immense measure.
>>>
>>> Thanks for the patience.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> K. Raisuddin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>>
>>> To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
>>> From: imaamc@gmail. com <imaamc@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:12:31 -0400
>>> Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: [chottala.com] Ph.D.
>>>
>>>
>>> Her name should be included in *Guinness* World *Records (
>>> http://www.guinness
>>> worldrecords. com/ <http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/> ).*
>>> *Another thing: Govt. should form an Inquiry Committee about the public
>>> money misuse for Ph.D. degrees purchase.*
>>> **
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 8/1/08, *Faruque Alamgir* <faruquealamgir@
>>> gmail.com<faruquealamgir@gmail.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> In fact Hasina got(managed/ bought ????) in all 13 Ph.D's. The
>>> octogenarian sub assistant leader of BAL *Zillur
>>> Rahman* once said boasting in the* Mohan(?) Shangshad *that his netri is
>>> so busy in the welfare of the *"Apamor Jonoshadharan" *so she refused
>>> many many dozens of offer of Ph.D to her .
>>>
>>> Bangladesh is the luckiest country to have had such a erudite,prudent,
>>> knowlesgable, highly educated,dozens of Ph.D holders leader. The other
>>> countries must be jelous not to have such PM. As some of the PM's great
>>> great grand grandma or grandpa was Thief,begger(*the Austrailian PM)*,or
>>> even one could not cross high school and was bus conductor (*John
>>> Major,UK)*.
>>>
>>> *GOODS LUCK BANGLADESH*. *
>>>
>>> JUGEY JUGEY JENO EROKOM KANDARI POW TAHOLEY AR 1/11 ER OBHABH HOBEY NA
>>> !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!*
>>>
>>> Faruque Alamgir
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:47 AM, shahid <shahid@merimo.
>>> net<shahid@merimo.net>
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Subject: Ph.D.
>>>
>>> FYI:
>>>
>>> "Many Universities are offering Ph. D. degree to me but I could not
>>> avail
>>> these because I have shortage of time" said by ex-Prime Minister of
>>> Bangladesh and Bangakaonna Sheikh Hasina. During her 5 years reign, she
>>> obtained nine Ph.
>>> D. degrees from various universities of the world. In fact, by obtaining
>>> nine Ph. D. degree, she set up an world record. It is believed that
>>> there
>>> is no such person in the world who could be able to obtain nine Ph. D.
>>> degree in his life time. Sheikh Hasina, who is a graduate of Dhaka
>>> University, didn't complete her Masters degree but now she became the
>>> richest person in the world in context of having Ph. D.
>>>
>>> Last two years, a team of the Government officials was assigned to
>>> contact
>>> various universities of the world for finding any scopes to obtain Ph.
>>> D.
>>> degree for Sheikh Hasina. Thanks to almighty, they were able to manage
>>> following degrees for her:
>>>
>>> 1. Doctor of Science: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibar Rahman Agricultural
>>> University, Bangladesh.
>>> 2. Doctor of Laws: Boston University, USA.
>>> 3. Doctor of Laws: Waseda University, Japan.
>>> 4. Doctor of Liberal Arts: University of Albertay, Scotland.
>>> 5. Doctor of Literature (Deshikottom) : Bishwabharati, India.
>>> 6. Doctor of Laws: National University, Australia.
>>> 7. Doctor of Laws: Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
>>> 8. Doctor of Laws: Catholic University, Belgium.
>>> 9. Doctor of Human Letters: Bridgeport University, USA.
>>>
>>> Sheikh Hasina somehow managed nine Ph. D. degrees without suitable
>>> academic
>>> background but she spent millions of poor people's money for traveling
>>> various countries to collect her degrees. It is also rumored that she
>>> spent
>>> huge public money for purchasing most of the Ph. D. degree she obtained.
>>> Wastage of poor people's money for obtaining useless degrees is not
>>> acceptable. We demand proper investigation of such unethical activities
>>> of
>>> the past Awami League Government.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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RELIGIONS VERSUS NUKES
(Part Two : FROM AIR GOD TO MAN GOD )
PROF. BIJON B. SARMA
AGE OF RELIGIONS :
In the first part of this article we have presented brief introduction
and history of some prominent religions of the world. Those might
reveal the contexts in which those religions were fabricated and
preached by the "men of religions". In this part of the article we
shall briefly explain the following :
(01) AGE OF THE RELIGIONS,
(02) OBJECTIVES OF PREACHING RELIGIONS,
(03) PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES USED IN VARIOUS RELIGIONS,
(04) TRANSFORMATION OF GODS etc.
AGE OF RELIGIONS : As per scientific revelations of archaeological
findings, the maximum age of religions may be about 10,000 years. The
oldest representation of 'god' so far discovered is an earthen idol.
It was discovered in Zericho (Israel) and its age has been estimated
by Carbon-14 test to have been around 8,000 B.C. Even though some
blind believers may advocate of earlier religions on the plea that
"their remains have not still been discovered", such a possibility is
extremely grim. It is true that life appeared on this earth billions
of years ago and that, transformed of the Saharan apes to human
species took place millions of years back. However, men started
agriculture only recently, i.e. only 30,000 years ago. The age of the
oldest weaved cloth so far discovered is 20,000 years ago. The age of
the oldest civilization so far known do not exceed 10,000 years. It
should be mentioned here that men discovered and invented the
techniques of survival ever since their appearance on earth. In fact
they could not survive without those knowledge. In comparison with the
complex jobs men do now, those were rather simplistic and primitive
types. In order to do complex jobs men need quite developed brains.
Such development took place only 15,000 ago. Men need highly developed
brains for doing complex jobs like sculpturing the details of a
horses' head. The oldest sample of such a job (i.e. a horse's head on
stone) so far discovered is only 15,000 years old. Some of the
thoughts related to religion are :
(i) How to persuade other people to give their earnings to me without
any valid reason (Please note, it is completely different from the
sharing of hunted food by the team leader),
(ii) How to make other people to work for me such that I may become
their leader without being the strongest or best (Please note, earlier
to this leadership was determined on the basis of physical strength,
hunting skill etc.),
Such deviated and unnatural thoughts are completely different from the
previous savage but simple thoughts. Only developed brains are capable
of devising such deceptive thoughts and it cannot take place before
the brains were quite developed in say 15,000 years ago. We have heard
various preachers to shout or sing that "Ramayan was written 60,000
years before the birth of Rama" or "Prophet X was born so many million
years ago" etc. In view of the scientific revelations such preachers
should stop such absurd claims for the sake of self survival. By this
time they might have the bitter experiences about what happens if they
want to go against science.
OBJECTIVES OF PREACHING RELIGIONS :
The major objectives of fabricating and preaching religions at the
initial stage were the following :
(i) Personal gain (e.g. the Aryan Brahmins enjoyed commission, some
poor men became king),
(ii) Giving psychological consolation (Gautama Buddha's preaching was
mostly targeted for it) etc.
In the later age, however, some religions were fabricated for purposes like,
(i) To attract people from other religions (at this time it was known
that the greater is the number of followers, the more will be the
income through commission, contribution, pilgrimage etc.).
(ii) To stop the expansion of other religions (For example, Sikh
religion that was carefully formulated to stop the expansion of Islam
in India),
(iii) To take back the converted people (For example, Bramhya
religion was formulated to take back the converted Muslims and
Christians back to Hinduism).
It may be so that in the savage and uncultured society religions was
necessary for the purpose of organizing people in order to establish
peaceful and tranquil society. It has now been proved beyond doubt no,
I repeat, no religion of this world has been able to do that. On the
other hand some religions are constantly creating hazards and curse to
humanity. While this is one side of the scene, men have invented,
developed and refined knowledge on subjects like Democracy,
Administration, Secularism, Science, Judiciary, Human rights etc. and
these are capable of establishing developed and peaceful societies. In
such a reality only the fools may like to carry the burden of
religion, the rotten ideas preached by some for vested interest.
PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES USED IN RELIGION :
The preachers of various religions have utilized many psychological
tricks in order to influence the common people. We shall mention some
of those hereunder.
(a) ARYAN AND HINDU RELIGIONS : (God acts as businessman. He gives
rewards men for contribution or prayer) : The Aryan preachers
(Bramhins) could not think of "god" better than a selfish entity alike
human being. So, they preached that "god would give reward or
punishment in this world only if he is given some material offerings".
The process of offering was to give the material offering to the
demi-god, Agni (i.e. burning), after which another demi-god, Barun
(wind) was to carry the offering to the principal god, Indra. In this
system the Bramhins acted as the commission agent of the god. The
inaccuracy of the claims of the Brahmins was revealed when some
intelligent people reported that they gave offering, but still did not
get the expected result. In such a situation the Bramhins introduced
the concept of "Heaven" saying, those who cannot be rewarded in this
world would be given in the same in the heaven after death. This time
people were really befooled because there was no way of knowing what
really happens after death. After this tricks worked successfully, the
Bramhins tightened it from both ends saying, those who would not give
offerings to god would be punished in the Hell. Being influenced later
by the Buddhists, the Hindus preached that men could also please the
god through prayer (i.e. by singing and shouting his praises).
(b) BUDDHIST RELIGION (God rewards men for serving his creations) :
During the time of Gautama Buddha some intelligent people suspected
the validity of "Heaven and Hell". In reply Buddha opined that both
heaven and hell existed right in this world.
As a matter of fact, Gautama Buddha fell great sympathy for the
distressed persons like patients, aged and poor men, orphans etc. He
thought of (i) devising an way to redress their pains, (ii) giving
psychological consolation to the common people and (iii) finding out a
logical explanation of the Heaven-Hell concept. He said that god was
to punish men for their bad deeds by sending them to a poor family
(which according to him was the hell) and to reward for good deeds by
sending them to an affluent family (which according to him was the
heaven). According to Buddha god's pleasure could be obtained not by
giving him any offering, but by serving god's creations (i.e. men,
animals, plants etc.). Those who believed in his teachings were
naturally attracted to good deeds and service for men. Such an
attitude helped to bring peace and happiness in the society.
The notion about intelligence or development of brain is, men are
getting more and more intelligent through subsequent generations.
However, it is not wholly true and there are considerable exceptions.
For example, even though some men in Gautama's age (about 500 years
BC) realized that there cannot be any heaven and hell after death,
numerous persons of the later age and even of the contemporary period
lack the intelligence to realize this simple issue.
(c) CHRISTIAN-ISM (God rewards those who take shelter of his son). It
has already been mentioned that the archaeological, historical and
scientific base of this religion is not strong. Endeavor to present
god in symbolic idols was first made in Greece. This practice is
capable of providing financial gains for the idol-makers and the
priests. However, the endeavor made by the idol-makers' of Greece to
introduce any religion miserably failed because of the presence of
intelligent philosophers like Aristotle and Plato. Alexander's attack
of India (3rd C BC) and collapse of some Greek states made some Greek
sculptors to migrate to India, where the priests established the
deep-rooted business of commission-agent. These two factors combined
together to introduce numerous idol-gods. With it what flourished all
over India were the temples. The temples acted as the key or central
hub for all types of activities like business, trading, entertainment,
service etc. The Christian religion stands on a peculiar philosophy.
It says that Jesus, the son of the god could forgive the sins of the
persons who would seek his shelter. What gave Jesus that capability ?
It says, it was the pains he suffered from crucifixion. This
philosophy is peculiar because here a man (say, X) torturing or
murdering another person (say, Y) can get rid of the offense by taking
shelter of the son of God. In this religion also god has been pictured
as a person having soft corner and biasness to his son. Also his son
has been pictured like a "businessman" who would arrange reward for
the sinner in lieu of praises and offerings. None of the religions
preached later could find out a more honorific position to god.
TRANSFORMATION OF GODS :
If we look at the physical typology of gods during the period 3000 BC
to date we find the following major types : (01) Air god, (02) Idol
god and (03) Man god.
(01) AIR GOD :
The 'Air god' was originally introduced by the Aryans. After their
leader "Indra" died they could not find anyone or anything to
represent him. So, they declared that their god with the name "Indra"
existed as "Air god", i.e. without any physical existence. Gautama
Buddha also advocated air god, because he told that god could be made
happy through services to his creations. At the same time he confused
people by saying "I did not say there is not, or there is any god",
probably because he himself was confused. In Christianity Christ, the
principal god is air god, but Jesus, his son appeared as replica or
idol god. Up to this period god was thought of as air-god because the
preacher could not think of confining the "titanic god" in any
miniature model. The Buddhists, Christians and Hindus, however, did
the same. After Hinduism, air-gods reappeared in Arab countries,
Punjab of India and West Bengal of India. However, the contexts in
which air-gods appeared in three different locations were completely
different. For example, in the earlier religions god was thought of
"air god" because the preachers lacked the skill to create idols. The
Greeks were excellent idol makers and those were introduced in the
Indian religions because of their venture.
The old religions like Aryan or Christian-ism were in need of
attracting the non-religious persons to the specific religion. As days
went on there were increase in the number of religions. At this stage
any newly appearing religion was in need of grabbing men from other
religions. In order to do this the religion had to have some
'qualities worth of attraction". In order to attract followers from
Buddhism, the Hindus had to add many attractive items to their
religions. Some of these are : (i) Beautiful deities, (ii) Decorated
temples (at times with nude sculptures), (iv) Temples full of gainful
activities like business, accommodation, services etc., (v) Temples
with entertaining items like delicious food, songs and dances
(including dance of the topless maids) etc.
In order to attract followers some religions endeavored to appear as
"strong" religion. One of the way to show strength was to destroy the
idol-gods of other religions. However, it was obvious that such act
was to be retaliated with revenge. In such a situation "Air god" was
extremely safe because it was beyond destruction. It is often alleged
that some air-god religions were fabricated for the sole purpose of
destruction of others' gods from a safe position. The fight between
some air-god religions with the idol-god religions is almost
perennial. There are many popular stories about their fights. We
mention here one of those.
Guru Nanak introduced Sikh religion in order to stop the expansion of
Islam in this land. Naturally he introduced the 'martial qualities'
like smart dress, carrying of weapon, equality and definitely the
safest god, i.e. air-god. In order to make his religion attractive to
the Indians, he however, made songs as its integral part.
Raja Rammohan introduced Bramhya religion in order to take back the
Hindus converted to Islam and Christianism. He understood the "safety
factor" of air-god and accepted the same for his religion.
One follower of air-god once destroyed the hands of a idol god and
boasted by saying "what can your idol-god do to me ?" In reply the
follower of the idol-god said, "all right, see what my god can do". He
picked up the damaged idol and started beating him severely. In reply
the follower of the air-god could only scream, because his invisible
god had absolutely no power.
It is often said that in order to compensate the natural weakness
existing between the material gods (i.e. idols) and the non-material
gods (i.e. air-gods) quite often the air-gods prescribe alternate
items. For example, the Sikhs always carry weapons for self-safety and
frightening others. Some other air-god community maintain birth-net
(i.e. once born in this community the person is allowed to change
religion only with the risk of life), evangelism, rigidity in rituals
and customs, compulsion in blind faiths etc. Experiences reveal that
in comparison with the idol-gods (with numerous attractions of views,
foods, fragrance, entertainment etc.) air-gods do not exist long. For
example, the principal air-god Indra of the Aryans disappeared within
the idol gods of the Hindus, Bramha the air god of the Bramhyas has
practically disappeared with the very religion and so on.
(02) IDOL GOD :
Idol gods have the natural advantage for being able to accommodate so
many attractive items in itself and around. Thus the idols can be
created with beauty, the deities can be decorated nicely, those can be
established in well designed abodes (temples), the deities can be
entertained with excellent food (all of which are in fact consumed by
the followers), those may be entertained with entertaining activities
like song, dance etc. (which again are enjoyed by the followers), the
deities can even be paraded on roads (i.e. Rathajatra) etc. The
culture and development of all the arts and skills related with the
above activities help to develop and improve various items of culture
(like, song, music, dance, drama, artistry, sculpture, construction
technology etc.). It is now well known that the reason for which the
standard of cultural items like dance, song and drama (later cinema)
etc. of South and Eastern India reached an enviable stage happened due
to the concept of idol gods.
With these contributions, however, there is no dearth of negativities
in idol worship. We shall discuss those in further details in the
later part of this article.
(03) MAN GOD :
In the contemporary society their exist several types of man-gods. The
most prominent types are the following :
(i) LIVING MAN GOD : All on a sudden a man declares himself as "God".
At times he claims it by showing some magical acts, and at times this
man's salaried agents preach magical and unbelievable things. Also, at
times the people belonging to lower caste love to have their own god
and themselves declare one from their community as god. Mohesh Jogi,
Sai Baba, Anukul thakur etc. are some examples of living man god.
(ii) REPRESENTATIVE OF RELIGIOUS-GOD OR MAN-GOD : The profession of
"living god-ship" is quite expensive and hazardous to establish and
maintain. Every time such a god appears, inquisitive and intelligent
men pay visits to check his god-ship. And in most cases such gods are
proved fake after a few days or weeks. In Bangladesh and West Bengal,
living-gods appear quite frequently. Whenever such a god appears the
relatives and neighbors endeavor their best to keep the god-ship alive
in their selfish interests. At present the safe and longer-living
"living gods" are the Saibaba's who live in extremely protected
shelters and the gods of the lower caste people.
In the above situation, a safer profession is the representative of
the "religious-god" or "deceased man-god". We already know the
representatives of various religious gods who roam around us as Saint,
Sadhu, Sanyashi, Fakir, Mastan etc. For being successful such
professionals essentially need two things : (i) some knowledge of
religion and (ii) human psychology. By using these two they earn their
livelihood and at times make empire.
The problem with the "representative of the religious god" is, this
profession does not flourish much in the land of multiple religions.
For example, Hindu sadhus may not have good days in the Muslim
dominated areas and vice versa. The concept of the "representative of
deceased man-god", has been introduced as a solution to this problem.
Thus a dead man is declared to have been "direct god" and friend of
people from all religions by his descendants or neighbors. They
maintain his photograph or some material remains (hair, nail, shoe,
dress etc.), they regularly manufacture stories of their miraculous
activities and find out ways of earning money. This profession is
relatively safe because it is free from the possibility of cross
checking. Thus a story manufactured today turns to have been legendary
after one or two hundred years. The descendants of "Lokenath baba"
have established one such flourishing empire. Baba's birth place is in
a village named "Chakla" in West Bengal. It is a Muslim dominated
area, where all the people of the village are given their noon-time
food from the temple. There is absolutely no reason why those people
would not spread stories of his 'miraculous' activities. We shall
finish this article after explaining the "million dollar trick" that
acted as the key of grand success of this "sadhubaba".
"Whenever you will be in danger in water, land or forest, do remember
me. You would not perish" (translation by the author) was the sermon
given by this baba. In that age baba got numerous followers from the
illiterate people. They used to remember him whenever they faced any
danger. Later when they met one another they used to say, (i) Yes,
last time my son was almost dead. I remembered baba and my son became
alive, (ii) You know, last time our boat was capsized, I remembered
baba. All my friends died, only I survived. From their stories it was
proved beyond any doubt that whoever remembered baba did not face
death.
What really happened was, the people with low level of intelligence
failed to realize that those who remembered his name and then died,
never comes to declare 'Well I remembered baba and then I died". Even
today, in our society there is no dearth of men with that level of
intelligence.
PROF. BIJON B. SARMA, ARCHITECTURE DISCIPLINE, KHULNA UNIVERSITY,
KHULNA, BANGLADESH
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