Dear Ezajur, I only hoped that you would understood my satire. Yet, I did not expect you to react with such a fury and indecency. I know you argue well and I struggle with my words. You have now burdened me with some heavy words which I found inconsistent with your line of arguments. However, while you have readied yourself 'to fight' I have no intention to take it up, it is not in my culture. Did I upset you? Don't worry I will still say few words. In your all posts, what you have argued, fairly I have shared your points of view except your standing on CTG's role, be it so. I strongly despised DS's, PA's probability theories than and now their silence. Though I was, still I'm, surprised what made you to use those words – 'fakiro(e)r zaat'.
Allow me to take you through the bush I am from -
I consider myself from middle class rural folks and struggled to achieve my best outside my country in life, so are my siblings. If I give you their name you will know them. Throughout I have maintained a strong bond with my poor country and my village and its inhabitants, whom I meet every year. I take values from my faith, imaan and family traditions. I feed my Hindu neighbours, perhaps that is the only square meal they eat each year, worship their deities wearing new clothes given by me. Even my wife and children will distribute mounds of zilapi to those poor Hindu and Saontals, thinking only that they never could save for some sweet meat and likewise offer them different things. My two freedom fighter brothers never queued for a favour either from any government or society. Among a big circle of friends, many envy me(usual bangali virtues/vices) in this town, but they never think of fighting or arguing with me as they know very well that I will never indulge in any confrontation. What they think of me often is a trivial issue for me. To make it farther clear - Last year in a gathering back home, many raised their concern that I am toeing a religious line and started usual bla, bla, "neither you nor anything else can stop me what so ever, as long as I consider this is good for my people, since I do it only to serve Allah, I will ask for full reward only from him, 'I do not give a dam what you may think" that was my reply to them. With difficulties in my literary strength what I try to discern in this blog or elsewhere it is the same objective. As my intention is clear so is my unwavering love for my people, no emotion or prejudice and no lineage to any one except whom I think contributing to the welfare of my most oppressed countrymen.
Though I do not think I owe you any explanation or clarification on Hasina, Khaleda or your admired Moinuddin or Fakhruddin so you need to find a way out of your own malaise and frustration. Without using 'perhaps' or 'probability' paradigm of DS or PA, MR, Nurul Kabir and Farhad Mazhar were the only strongest and effective critics of CTG, so who is trying to make MR a hero or zero I can not fathom from your line of arguments. I found MR as one of the best articulated official. I personally met on several occasions many different level secretaries, none could speak with such a clear, flawless and unambiguous manner. Also from day one I have noticed DS and PA's apathy or even hostility towards him. Same, if you want can see among all, who even has a distant lineage to mohajote. All of them become very happy indeed on MR's arrest, does not matter what they are signing or saying, in this country people say anything. Brevity of Ayub khan to arrest Tofazzal Hussain, shutting down of Haq Katha of Mawlana Bhasani by Banglar Bandhu, who also was brave enough to shut down and close all but four dailies. Ershad was brave enough to sent Shafiq Rehman in exile after closing his weekly. Knowing the consequences well yet to exercise the same is a brevity, indeed. Hasina will go as far as torturing MR in repeated remands and those editors who signed biggopti to release MR will continue in their deceitful historical behavior to toss the real truth and confuse your 'fokirer zaat' as far and as much as they can. What is more sickening and appalling, none of these so called 'freedom speech writers' has a popular column, exception is MR. Very recently I started reading op-ed from Turkish newspapers as I discovered them in Istanbul, mainly because of their nationalistic trait and professional articulation on world and domestic issues. Who is scared of whom no need to indulge in that kind of debate but Asif Nazrul, what he wants to put 'in record' (on Monday's bangla vision) that MR will be tortured again and again in repeated remands by our, secular, democratic, shadhinotar pokhyer sorkar bahadhur. I do not want to pick all your arguments, some are indecent and inconsistent as one would relate them. As I said, blogging is not my past time, and I never shake hands with people because they are big and powerful and admire their arm power. I met CTG in two occassions and once I had a sealed envelop full of concerns and another time to tell them point blank another serious issue faced by the NRBs. Everything, in my conscious, is what helps my fellow countrymen, how small it turn out to be, it is never was a matter to me and never will be. Be in peace. May Allah subhanawataala guide us all. Haque --- On Mon, 7/6/10, ezajur <Ezajur@yahoo.com> wrote:
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