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[ALOCHONA] Chatra League transfers an OC



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[ALOCHONA] Re: Textile Minister on AL and the media



Jute Minister in 1986

http://www.amadershomoy.com/content/2010/07/14/news0527.htm

On 7/13/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

Editorial
Angry minister picks on wrong targets

NOT all political leaders are notably moderate persons, nor are all their pronouncements mild and pleasant. But the acerbity and belligerence demonstrated by the textiles and jute minister, Abdul Latif Siddique, in the course of his address at a discussion meeting arranged by the Awami Sangskritik Forum at Dhaka Reporters Unity on Saturday, will find few parallels. The hot air he was puffing out was directed against multiple targets – Ziaur Rahman, Ershad, the media, lawyers, even 'some Awami League leaders'. His particular bĂȘtes noire were the newspaper owners whom he called 'illegitimate children of Zia-Ershad'. He exhorted the Bangladesh Chhatra League activists engaged in in-fighting to take on the opposition instead of fighting among themselves.
   
The minister has not noticed, it seems, that the Chhatra League has already ousted their main opponents from nearly all institutions and there is none left against whom they could fight, hence the in-fighting. What is particularly worrying is that his call on the Chhatra League to target the opposition may be construed as an encouragement to violence and the political scene may be further beclouded. Instead of inciting the youths of the Chhatra League to pounce upon the other student groups or whatever, he could help to reorganise them into a fine force of student politics with positive goals. This will require introduction of election and democratisation of the student body.
   
The minister then went on to vent his spleen against the media. We are not suggesting that the media has no flaws or is above criticism. But a condemnation of the media, or of any object of condemnation, must be based on sound logic. The textiles minister accused the media of trying to protect the war criminals instead of helping the efforts to prosecute them. He cited no evidence. The media is of different hues but if he is speaking of the mainstream media, then it is absurd to suggest that the media shielded the war criminals. On the contrary, it is the larger section of the media, along with some socio-cultural organisations and the Sector Commanders' Forum, that kept the issue of war crimes trial alive. Ministers and politicians had almost forgotten it.
   
Latif Siddique also decried the media for its supportive role during the military-backed emergency government of Fakhruddin Ahmed. This is only partially true; a section of the media also opposed, or highlighted the unconstitutional character of the two-year-long interim government within the limitations then prevailing. Therefore, he cannot tar the entire media with the same brush, remembering that his own party had taken an ambivalent position towards that regime. Talking to this newspaper the minister said crony capitalism exerted a bad influence on the politics of both the Awami league and the Chhatra League. Without differing with him we would say that all parties, including his own, which held power in this country created as much as were created by lumpen capitalism.
   
If the minister is angry or frustrated over the doings of his party or party colleagues, there are understandable reasons for it. But he will achieve nothing by picking unrelated issues and innocent victims.
 
On 7/12/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:

Jute minister's remarks termed provocative,irresponsible 

Cross-section of people on Sunday described as 'irresponsible' and 'outrageous' the remarks of jute minister Abdul Latif Siddique that the Chhatra League should take on the opposition rather than fighting among themselves.
   They also condemned as a 'reflection of fascist
   mentality' his diatribe against the media.
   
They said that the minister's provocative remarks proved that the government had no respect for the mass media and democratic norms and values.
   At a programme of Awami Sangskritik Forum on Saturday, the minister for textiles and jute, Abdul Latif Siddique, advised the Bangladesh Chhatra League activists to stop infighting and take on the opposition parties instead. 'Why do you fight among yourselves instead of taking on them [opposition]. I know the media will kick up a fuss about my comments but I do not care…,' he said.
   
Pointing at the television cameras at the programme, he said, 'These machines are not in favour of us. The reporters might be our supporters but the owners are illegitimate sons of military rulers Zia and Ershad.'
   'The minister's remarks laid bare the fascist face of the Awami League. I am consciously using the adjective as I watch the activities of the government,' said writer Azfar Hussain.
   
'I am not at all surprised by such irresponsible remarks of the minister as we all know their cultural background. All these indicate the bankruptcy of bourgeois politics. Such bourgeois politics did not solve the issues like war crimes rather kept them alive for political gains. Such activities have kept the problems of the majority of the people, the workers and peasants, out of focus,' he said.
   
Anthropologist Rahnuma Ahmed said, 'One should respond to such inanity by asking the minister whether this is the Awami League's secret policy, whether Sheikh Hasina's standing down from the top position of Chhatra League last year was aimed at pulling the wool over our eyes; how long he [minister] thinks the public will tolerate such blatant arrogance… What I actually find deeply worrying is the sheer disregard for our public universities which have a proud history of producing so many meritorious students…'
   
'The present government is literally driving the last nail into the coffin of the public universities… Destroying the moral fabric of the public universities is a despicable crime…I demand that the government publish a white paper on where the children of ministers and top-ranking bureaucrats study, whether at public or private universities, whether at home or abroad,' she said.
   
Rights watchdog Odhikar's secretary Adilur Rahman Khan said, 'The minister's remarks once again reminded us of the fascist trend in politics when political persecution is continuing. The ruling class in Bangladesh, irrespective of partisanship, has a fascist tendency. One need not mention what was the situation during the rule of unelected governments. People, especially the students in Bangladesh, have long been struggling against such trend and the minister's remarks have proved that the struggle is not over…,' he said.
   
Robaet Ferdous, associate professor of mass-communication and journalism at Dhaka University, said the minister should be reined in so that he does not make such irresponsible remarks again. 'The whole country is suffering because of Chhatra League's violence; what the minister wants to achieve by trying to incite them to attack others,' he asked.
   
'What is most alarming is the minister's total disrespect for democracy and mass media. It seems he considers himself above everything and accountable to none. I fear bad days are ahead for Bangladeshi mass media. They have already closed down a newspaper and two television channels. The minister's tone indicates something ominous,' said Robaet.
   
Mushtaque Ahmed, a young entrepreneur and managing director of Reptile Farms Ltd, said, 'It is shocking that a minister can speak this way.'
   'The minister's remarks will provoke more violence in student politics. This eventually will strengthen the quarters who want to stop student politics,' said Mahbubul Haque, a student of mass communication and journalism at Dhaka University.
   
Rifat Rezwana, a student of Bangla at Jahangirnagar University, said 'Violence on campuses is never acceptable whether it is infighting of a student body or a clash between rival student organisations.'
   'The minister's comments made it clear that the government is not only supporting Chhatra League's activities, but also inciting them to do so,' said Munna Amzad, a student of Urdu at Dhaka University.
   
Bazlul Karim Chowdhury Abed, vice-president of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, said they did not expect such irresponsible remarks from a senior minister. 'We condemn it.'
   
Chhatra League general secretary Mahfuzul Haider Chowdhury Roton declined comments on the minister's remarks. 'Being a man of ordinary position, I think I should not make comments on what a minister has said.'
 
 
On 7/11/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
Textile Minister on AL and the media
 
 





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RE: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)



Dear Mr. Haque:
 
Honest article on self evaluation.
 
Yes, Bangladesh has long ways to go but time is running out. One out of five people are infected with arsenic poinsoning (WHO report), one hundred sixty million people crammed in an ever shrinking land mass and the the evil of global warming is staring at the face of Bangladesh more than any other place on earth. 
 
You mention that if we take 20 best sellers from the sixties todate...
 
I will go one step further: take one thousand most popular books during the last hundred years and anlyze them and you will see a trend. The hallmark of our intellectualism is narrating social ills vividly, some times with exageration. Hardly do we see solutions to the problems in our literature. We seem to relish poverty, failure and childish behavior. Our culture fosters negativity, pessimism and a sense of helplessness.
 
Mr. Haque:  You seem to imply that we are genetically inferior. Which is not scientifically correct. All races have well distributred mixture of people. Also if you look at our history our forefathers were not all local Hindus. In our vein flows the blood of Arabs, Pathans, Afgans, Turks and Persian. For over a thousand years scholars, preachers, writers, artists, judges, soldiers and rulers have come to our land. They did not go back. We are the children of these people. If you look around, you will know what I am talking about. So, it is not a matter of genetics. 
 
We need to look around and find a source of moral values. We have to look around and find real leaders. We do not need to wait for our national leaders to give us leadership. This has to come from ordinary people doing small deeds of kindness and of noble value. Collectively that will generate the necessary force of change.
 
As people grow and mature each will come to his/her conclusion of the goal and objectivity of life. I have come to my own value of life. Travelling through time, reading, reflecting, seeing people, system and societies I have come to the realization that we have a great treasure which most Bangladeshis will never taste. I have been privileged to get a slight glimpse of that greatness and that is the reason I try to share my knowledge with others at any opportunity I get. But that is for other times.
 
Best of luck and never quit reflecting on life and what matters most. Sincerely look for solutions and you will find it.
 
Aziz Huq
 


To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: haquetm83@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:02:56 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)

 
Democratic polity did not set it's root in our society for various reasons.
Since, we the people from this deltaic plain of Padma, Jamuna and Meghna always ruled by outsiders, feeling of freedom and equity was suppressed as lived under oppression and submission. In so doing developed and demonstrates submissive characteristics in general. One may disagree but that will be only distortion of reality out of sheer ego and exaggeration which can not be helpful for our progress. However, it does not mean that self respect and free thinkers were not there or no one emerged with strong voice and values.

Great majority of our population lived under poverty either under Mongols (Mughols), Turks or Panjabis. Shockingly it continues today under Sh. Hasina or Begum Khaleda who are native of this land.
The GDP in nominal or real term has increased many fold in last 60 years, yet it is far below than what achieved by our moderate neighbors, save those great achievers in our neighborhood.
Impoverishment chastised further our bodily and moral strength and values that, I am afraid, today runs into our blood and genre. Any Bangladeshi, everywhere demonstrates a personality that will bear this testimony. The same appears as deterrence to securing leading positions in competition with others, even with Pakistanis and Indians as main point of disqualification. This only excludes purely technical hands.

We usually shout at wrong time and in wrong place (out of passive characteristic) often with loud and noisy exaggeration, ineffectively.
'Bengalis could think ahead of Indians or Pakis', only on certain given circumstances but that also diminished in thin air long ago.

Take twenty most read novels from 60s to todate, find a character that effectively demonstrated and exercised good values that influenced our society effectively towards a positive dimension!

Take fifty articles of our popular columnists from the same period, you will notice inherent intellect, eloquence, objectivity and farsightedness all collapses in great inconsistency and often in great disarray representing there social positioning then and now. It does tell the same old tale.

Democracy, humanity and social justice in their perception changes along the line of their mentors (netris). What they vowed to fight yesterday against, today they accept and submit only to satisfy their masters. When they claim as scholars (budhijibi), can't be called free human.

Take example of Rab killings, custodial deaths, high court's inaction or misruling, injustice that taken place under BNP, you will notice how vehemently those scholars opposed and stood as symbol of a savior of democracy, justice and human rights. Today they are very silent on the same issues, accepts the crimes as committed by their Netris. It can not be from an independent mind that takes it's wisdom from its own values. But why we are so? Their submissive and criminal embedded psychology as we have seen our history books, repeats - only to safeguard and protect the 'dada babu, korta, mohajon and its equivalent today.

Today when we count on our GNP or literacy rate both explains the conditions of the majority. No one is ready to take responsibility and ownership of our sordid conditions and status, yet they plan for a life time rule.
It is a strange manifestation in our society, strange indeed to prove that we love freedom, we care for justice for our people.
We have a long way to go!




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[ALOCHONA] Financial Times: Japan’s Fast Retailing JV's with Grameen to provide affordable clothes in Bangladesh



 

Fast Retailing to set up Bangladesh business

By Lindsay Whipp in Tokyo

Financial Times

Published: July 13 2010

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c36ad9a-8e8c-11df-964e-00144feab49a.html

 

Japan's Fast Retailing, the maker of the Uniqlo brand, is to form a joint venture in Bangladesh with Grameen Bank to provide affordable clothes to the country's poor.

 

Fast Retailing will become the first Asian company to set up a "social business" – a term given to companies formed to address a social cause and whose profits are ploughed back into the company – in the region. It will own 99 per cent of the new company with Grameen Healthcare Trust holding the other 1 per cent. It will begin operations in September.

 

Muhammed Yunus, Nobel peace prize-winner and the founder of Grameen Bank, said: "It [sends] a big message to Japanese companies to use their technology to solve the problems of the people."

 

Fast Retailing, whose president, Tadashi Yanai, is Japan's richest man, joins companies such as Adidas in creating a social business in Bangladesh. It is the first time Grameen participates in a venture that focuses on bringing clothes to the impoverished.

 

Bangladesh is one of the world's poorest countries with 36.3 per cent of the population living below the poverty line of $1.25 per day.

 

However, it has an economic growth rate of 5.6 per cent and is benefiting from a shift out of relatively high-cost production bases, such as southern China.

 

The Japanese government this year established a new study group with the aim of creating public-private partnerships in developing countries to target middle- and low-income groups as developed country markets stagnate.

 

The venture, which has a temporary name of Grameen Uniqlo, will sell products such as underwear, blankets, raincoats and school uniforms to families living in poverty at affordable prices – likely to be about a $1 or less. This will demand the most efficient and low-cost production.

 

Grameen Uniqlo is planning to employ 1,500 people within three years, the vast majority of whom will be sales people, who will use techniques such as door-to-door selling and education about the importance of sanitation and cleanliness. The venture also aims to nurture entrepreneurs through their sales training and employment.

 

The venture will benefit from access to Grameen's 8m borrowers and the use of its well-known brand in Bangladesh.



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RE: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)



           May I please request Mohd. Haque not to indulge in spewing falsehoods in the name of History of Bengal?  Most of what is easily available as the 'history' of our land has been tainted badly by the British historians who had vested interest in portraying Bengal as 'poor and wretched' for the simple reason that the British LOOTED Bengal ruthlesly. Go check the British Treasury entries rendered by the East India Company during the period.
 
          There is no historical evidence of the following sweeping statement:
 
"Great majority of our population lived under poverty either under Mongols (Mughols), Turks or Panjabis"
 

Bengal was the richest country in the world, and the most ordinary person of that land lived contentedly in plenitude because the system of wealth production and distribution of wealth was equitable. Have you studied the pre-colonial economic system of Bengal?
 
Why do you think the White man landed in Bengal for the specific purpose of looting and not anywhere else?
 
        Have some self-respect, please.
 
            Farida Majid
 
[PS : I had written often on history of Bengal on Alochona. See if you can dig them out from the archives. You may find them informative]
 
 



To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: haquetm83@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:02:56 -0700
Subject: [ALOCHONA] We have a long way to go - Democracy (2)

 
Democratic polity did not set it's root in our society for various reasons.
Since, we the people from this deltaic plain of Padma, Jamuna and Meghna always ruled by outsiders, feeling of freedom and equity was suppressed as lived under oppression and submission. In so doing developed and demonstrates submissive characteristics in general. One may disagree but that will be only distortion of reality out of sheer ego and exaggeration which can not be helpful for our progress. However, it does not mean that self respect and free thinkers were not there or no one emerged with strong voice and values.

Great majority of our population lived under poverty either under Mongols (Mughols), Turks or Panjabis. Shockingly it continues today under Sh. Hasina or Begum Khaleda who are native of this land.
The GDP in nominal or real term has increased many fold in last 60 years, yet it is far below than what achieved by our moderate neighbors, save those great achievers in our neighborhood.
Impoverishment chastised further our bodily and moral strength and values that, I am afraid, today runs into our blood and genre. Any Bangladeshi, everywhere demonstrates a personality that will bear this testimony. The same appears as deterrence to securing leading positions in competition with others, even with Pakistanis and Indians as main point of disqualification. This only excludes purely technical hands.

We usually shout at wrong time and in wrong place (out of passive characteristic) often with loud and noisy exaggeration, ineffectively.
'Bengalis could think ahead of Indians or Pakis', only on certain given circumstances but that also diminished in thin air long ago.

Take twenty most read novels from 60s to todate, find a character that effectively demonstrated and exercised good values that influenced our society effectively towards a positive dimension!

Take fifty articles of our popular columnists from the same period, you will notice inherent intellect, eloquence, objectivity and farsightedness all collapses in great inconsistency and often in great disarray representing there social positioning then and now. It does tell the same old tale.

Democracy, humanity and social justice in their perception changes along the line of their mentors (netris). What they vowed to fight yesterday against, today they accept and submit only to satisfy their masters. When they claim as scholars (budhijibi), can't be called free human.

Take example of Rab killings, custodial deaths, high court's inaction or misruling, injustice that taken place under BNP, you will notice how vehemently those scholars opposed and stood as symbol of a savior of democracy, justice and human rights. Today they are very silent on the same issues, accepts the crimes as committed by their Netris. It can not be from an independent mind that takes it's wisdom from its own values. But why we are so? Their submissive and criminal embedded psychology as we have seen our history books, repeats - only to safeguard and protect the 'dada babu, korta, mohajon and its equivalent today.

Today when we count on our GNP or literacy rate both explains the conditions of the majority. No one is ready to take responsibility and ownership of our sordid conditions and status, yet they plan for a life time rule.
It is a strange manifestation in our society, strange indeed to prove that we love freedom, we care for justice for our people.
We have a long way to go!




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RE: [ALOCHONA] Fatwa illegal : HC rules against all extra-judicial punishments upon writ petitions



Dear sirs,

 

Assalamu Alaikum.The press has given wrong heading.What has been declared illegal is extra-judicial punishments based on fatwas  or otherwise. Islam also does not approve punishments by private persons or groups.Fatwa is not a court verdict. Fatwa can never take the place of court verdict in Islamic law.

We shall wait for the detailed judgment to understand properly.

 

Shah Abdul Hannan

 


From: alochona@yahoogroups.com [mailto:alochona@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Isha Khan
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 3:35 AM
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Fatwa illegal : HC rules against all extra-judicial punishments upon writ petitions

 

 

Fatwa illegal : HC rules against all extra-judicial punishments

 

The High Court in a verdict yesterday declared illegal all kinds of extrajudicial punishment including those made in the name of fatwa in local arbitration.The court directed the authorities concerned to take punitive action against the people involved in enforcing fatwa against women.Anyone involved, present or taking part in or assisting any such conviction or execution would come under purview of the offences under the penal code and be subject to punishment, the court observed.

It also observed infliction of brutal punishment including caning, whipping and beating in local salish [arbitration] by persons devoid of judicial authority constitutes violation of the constitutional rights.The court said the people's rights to life and equal protection have to be treated in accordance with the law.As per the rules of the Constitution, the citizens will not be subject to cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment, the HC said.

The HC bench of Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore came up with the verdict in response to three separate writs. The petitions were filed by rights organisations -- Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, BRAC Human Rights and Legal Services, and Nijera Kori, and four Supreme Court lawyers -- Advocate Salahuddin Dolon, Barrister Mahbub Shafique, Advocate AKM Hafizul Alam and Barrister Imaran-ul Hye.

The rights organisations filed a writ last year and the lawyers filed two separate writs this year with the HC, seeking necessary directives from the court to stop extrajudicial punishment in the name of fatwa.The petitions were filed following several newspaper reports and investigations by the petitioners into violence inflicted on women in the name of fatwa by local religious leaders and powerful corners.

It was alleged in the petitions that a number of deaths, suicides and incidents of grievous hurt of women were reported arising from punishment given in salish, but the law-enforcement agencies took no action to prevent those unlawful actions.Such kinds of conviction and punishment do not have any legal basis, they said.

The petitioners referred to international obligation under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984 and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 1979.

Earlier on August 25 last year, the HC directed the secretary to Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, officials of the law-enforcement agencies and the chairmen of union parishads and municipalities to take immediate measures against extrajudicial penalties in salish.It also issued a rule asking them to show cause as to why their failure to prevent such illegal acts in compliance with their statutory obligations should not be declared illegal.

Barrister Sara Hossain appeared for the petitioners and Deputy Attorney General Ekram Hossain Manju for the state.Meanwhile, ASK Executive Director Sultana Kamal told The Daily Star 10-12 incidents of extrajudicial punishment took place in the name of fatwa across the country in last one year."As far as I know, six such indents including an incident of caning in Bancharampur in Brahmanbaria have taken place in different areas this year," she said.

Sultana Kamal, also a former adviser to the caretaker government, said repression against women in the name of fatwa will decrease following the HC verdict.Women who want to control themselves as per their choice will get the right to protect themselves, she said, adding that perpetrators cannot impose their religious and cruel concepts upon them.

The HC bench of Justice Mohammad Gholam Rabbani in 2001 in another verdict declared fatwa illegal, although an appeal is pending with the Appellate Division in this regard.Petitioner Barrister Mahbub said yesterday's verdict is wider than that of 2001, since the latest one declares illegal all kinds of extrajudicial punishment, whereas the previous verdict declared illegal only fatwa.

Yesterday's verdict has asked the law enforcers to remain vigilant against extrajudicial punishment and report to the court about such incidents, he added.

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=146004



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Re: [ALOCHONA] Digital education



Friends


It appears that the present digital government has become anxious to make all available job in any corner of the nation to their cadres. To pave the way for such holy mission they making all necessary arrangement to prepare the Sonar candidates to pass thru the mockery of exam so that none can point figure.
The promise of this government is that from Teknaf to Tetulia there will be one and one slogan of BAL Bangabondhu and none else will be allowed to trespass since the nation belongs to BAL and Bangabondhu as the people are watching the politico scenario in last 18 months.

The people of Bangladesh are yet to see many many more digital game of the Din Bodoler Palal ganer.

Faruque Alamgir



On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com> wrote:
 

Editorial : Question paper leak at BG Press
 
No mercy must be shown to those involved

THERE is little question that corruption in government is a sad reality we have lived with for years. Even so, there is in us that certain feeling that as governance improves and public sensibilities get to be more sharpened, such wrongdoing will be rolled back and the country can move on toward its desired goals. That being the sentiment, it comes as a shock for all us that some government staff have been involved in the crime of leaking question papers in return for dishonest financial gains. The crime we speak of concerns the Bangladesh Government (BG) Press taking place in Rangpur and involving a number of candidates for the position of assistant teachers at public high schools. As a report in this newspaper on Saturday notes, elements at the BG Press sold question papers related to an interview for the positions for a rather staggering amount of Tk. 25 lakh. The interview was, of course, cancelled as a consequence of the leak.

The manner in which the whole scam was organized speaks of the sophistication and strategic planning that were brought into the scandal. Those involved made it a point to have some candidates peruse the question papers, on payment of Tk. 2 lakh each, at a guest house in Gangachhara upazila of Rangpur. They were to pay an additional Tk. 3 lakh each once the examinations were over. They were forbidden to take out the question papers or to copy their contents. They were only permitted to commit the questions to memory, which again was a bizarre situation. In any case, what is jarring is the involvement of government employees in such a sensitive area as a government printing press. Besides, when the matter involves a public examination, it is shocking that some employees there could so easily and recklessly set up links with corrupt elements and in exchange for money agree to let them know the questions beforehand. In simple terms, departmental confidentiality, to say nothing of trust, has been undermined here. Of course, such leaks of questions have happened before, particularly at educational institutions. But now that it is the BG Press which is involved, one can only guess what might happen --- and on a graver and bigger scale --- in future if the problem is not tackled right away.

Altogether 167 people have been arrested over the scandal. The authorities have constituted a five-member probe body to inquire into the incident. We urge that the body go into the details of the scandal and submit its report by the July 19 deadline given to it. Moreover, it is important that the report be made public in the interest of citizens. We also think that a wholesale survey of all such institutions be conducted immediately in order for any gaps or loopholes to be plugged for the future. And it goes without saying that those found guilty of involvement in the Rangpur BG Press scam be given exemplary punishment as a deterrence for those tempted to commit similar crimes in future. No mercy should be shown here.
 
 
 
 




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[ALOCHONA] India to build transit infrastructure



India to build transit infrastructure
 
Dhaka July 13 (bdnews24.com/) — India has agreed to build the necessary infrastructure to carry goods from Kolkata to Tripura through Bangladesh. The concerned Indian authorities will dredge the waterway from Kolkata river port of India to the Ashuganj river port of Bangladesh and construct a 40 kilometre roadway from Ashuganj to Akhaura, the shipping minister Shahjahan Khan said after a meeting he had with Rajeet Mitter, the Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh.

After the meeting, which was held at the secretariat, the minister told reporters that the two sides also discussed the use of the Ashuganj river port and the Chittagong and Mangla Sea Ports. Khan said that India was going to set up a power plant in Tripura and that they would have to transport a lot of building materials for construction. India will have to use the Ashuganj port to carry the Over Dimension Consignments (ODCs) from Kolkata to Tripura.

The company that won the tender to construct the power station will also build the 40 kilometre road, Khan added. The minister said the two men also talked about setting up a new landing station and a container jetty in Bangladesh. Secretary to the shipping ministry, Abdul Mannan was also present at the meeting.


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[ALOCHONA] Re: The sky, the mind, the ban culture

Dear Alochok Haque

His reply is a teasing appetizer scoffed down without the need to chew at all. More like a single nut at the end of a long day of fasting.

The trouble with the Bangladeshi partisan animal is that he is completely partisan in absolutely everything. Such partisanship cannot be controlled or concealed. In fact such partisans resent that they live in an era, or function in area, where their partisanship should require any moderation all.

He patronizingly asks us to read history. He apparently knows something we don't. Apparently there are sound historical reasons for the condition of our nation today.

Of course he doesn't want us to be obsessed with AL and BNP. That's what they do – dilute the importance of politics when their own party is in power. We wouldn't be obsessed with AL and BNP if AL and BNP weren't obsessed with power. In Bangladesh politics is the cause and effect of everything because AL and BNP have made sure that politics is involved in everything.

An article is a self contained and complete piece unless of course it is stated that the piece is part one of three. Or as in his case, an entire education is required before his article can be understood.

In the face of provocation he defines the Daily Star, in the first instance, relative to the values of 1971 and Pakistan. Is that what the paper is – a revolutionary paper? Well then, it does not seem so revolutionary today eh? And if he then seeks to reflect his partisanship onto the whole paper I suggest the paper come clean and market itself more honestly. I have no problems with the principles of 1971 but I have problems with people who get all self righteous about 1971 and use it as a battering ram to justify our present actions and conditions.

Mujib did make history and is great, but I am not, unlike this journalist, defined by that man. The point is that I am disagreeing with Mujib banning papers and this journalist has no problem with Mujib banning papers. That's why in an article about the banning of newspapers he finds it possible, as a journalist, to bring in the banning of Mujib while ignoring Mujib's own banning of papers.

When supporting your party every little drop in the ocean helps.

And it is the refuge of them all – please be polite. But it is the very contempt and disregard for them that catches their attention in the first place. They pretend they are interested in dialogue, that they are not predetermined, that they are neutral, that they are free to call murder – murder. But they are not. The language I use is hard earned by them and the respect they demand is but a ruse to be trapped in their deceits. Politeness will get you high minded lectures about what happened in 1971 with scant regard for the condition of our nation or our government today.

Let me illustrate brazenly.

This journalist will praise the President for his role in creating a human rights commission. But he would never dare to condemn an AL Home Minister about the beating of children by police with sticks during the recent hartal. Let alone a Home Minister and a President who are correctly informed about 1971.

Decent conversation implies a basic decency. Basic decency cannot be determined by decent conversation alone. What you secretly do, what you deliberately ignore, what you cunningly manipulate is more important than how nicely you converse.

In Bangladesh, the wiliest foxes are those who speak in the nicest way. It gets you very far, often unchallenged, in a nation which only 40 years ago was renowned for its poverty and illiteracy.

Our nation is best served not by those who invoke 1971 day and night for political gain. Our nation will be best served when those who do so are dead and a new generation reengages with its past more honestly, without self interest, blind partisanship and crass sentimentality.

It's why this journalist privately thinks Chatra League's agenda is a necessary evil. It's why he will feign decency in the written word but condone murder, extortion and violence committed by people, who like him, think loving Mujib necessarily makes you a complete man.

We don't need lectures on heritage by those who translate heritage into the politics of Bangladesh and blind support for a Nethri. This journalist is a closet Nethrist. He has a platform. But his intellectualism is not the same intellectualism of 1971. It is the intellectualism that is roundly rejected by many Bangladeshis who know that we are nowhere near where we should be – and why.

Decent conversation. About what? Banning the sky?

It's far more useful for them to learn that they too can be held in despicable contempt by people who can read and write English.

Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait


--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Mohd. Haque" <haquetm83@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Mr. B Ahsan,
>  
> Thanks for your quick reflection and parting knowledge. As far as I am concern in this thread of postings, educating myself is the main objective as my profession is something has no link with what I say or do here (in this blog) or elsewhere in contrary to your position in this connection.
> Therefore my reading habit or writing a post, only to develop and make my opinion for the greater interest of our people I do not have AL or BNP in my background. What you as a political editor of daily star, as a prolific writer, take your position or taken your position already in the mind of thousands of DS readers or your own readers it is entirely their judgement, asking them to educate further to understand your writing is sheer arrogance.
>  
> I used to read all your writings even when you wrote on 'lau er doga ebong alur vhorta', I did say in my last posting - 'distinctive' way of writing. But as I said, I will say again you do form the group what readers like me do not want to align, you have already become part of a media that has already raised many concern. Values of 71' that is your selling point nothing beyond that, nation's well being and greater intersts impaccably made a curved distant. You may take it or leave it.
>  
> If you have a grain of respect to your readers, you endeavor to educate them not lecture them. Well, that is the remnant of our political players and their greatest marketeer's characteristics. 
> You support AL, love Bango Bandhu I have no problem, but your reply did establish what I did not utter out of respect.
> Any way keep writing. Hope I did not write any thing disrespectful to you personally.       
>  
> Haque
>
> --- On Sat, 10/7/10, B Ahsan <bahsantareq@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: B Ahsan <bahsantareq@...>
> Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: The sky, the mind, the ban culture
> To: "Mohd. Haque" <haquetm83@...>
> Date: Saturday, 10 July, 2010, 1:10 PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Read history, understand it, go into the details of what this nation has gone through. Don't be obsessed with the AL or BNP.
>
> Where my writings are concerned, you seem to have very little knowledge of them. Or you read selectively. Read, I say again. Educate yourself. Don't just read newspaper articles. There are books, loads of them.
>
> As for the Daily Star, it happens to be a defender of the principles for which we fought against Pakistan in 1971. You have any problems with that? Objectivity? Drop the idea. Go for the truth. Respect your heritage. Disagree with people like Mujib, but do not delude yourselves into thinking that they do not matter in Bangladesh's history. They are men who made history.
>
> The language you use about people you disagree with is appalling. Is that a result of education? Or is bigotry there? You want to have a decent conversation? Then use decent language. If you can't, drop the whole idea.
>
> Syed Badrul Ahsan
>
> --- On Sat, 10/7/10, Mohd. Haque <haquetm83@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: Mohd. Haque <haquetm83@...>
> Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: The sky, the mind, the ban culture
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Cc: "B Ahsan" <bahsantareq@...>
> Date: Saturday, 10 July, 2010, 11:34
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dear Ezajur,
>  
> As I have mentioned earlier about SBA there is no way you can expect any thing objective from him, he can criticise the whole world and in a very distictive literary forms but nothing against Awami League.
> Today our biggest tragedy is we do not have any writers who you can read with an objective mind, if you want to read them either you need to put yourself in AL or BNP's mind set.
> How much you try to bring it to their attention, no use. Otherwise, same columnist or writer could have benefit the country in a great way.
> Amader pora kopal. 
>
> --- On Wed, 7/7/10, ezajur <Ezajur@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: ezajur <Ezajur@...>
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: The sky, the mind, the ban culture
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, 7 July, 2010, 3:28 PM
>
>
>  
>
>
>
> Syed Badrul Ahsan does everything possible to divert the reader from where blame lies - if blame lies with Awami League. Here he talks about everything under the sun in a crafty, roundabout way. He thinks he is very manipulative but for those who care enough to look twice his blind partisanship is very plain to see.
>
> Which is why he will talk about Pakistan banning Mujib but never mention Mujib banning political parties, the press etc. Whatever the situation, these people will find a way of twisting things in favour of their party and their their nethri.
>
> So he brings in Mujib, Tagore, Pakistan and even banning the sky.
>
> But what he should be doing is writing about who is responsible for the current banning fad in Dhaka. But what can you expect? Under no circumstances will people like him attack those who are doing the banning if those who are doing the banning belong to their party.
>
> And people like him are lead writers in the Daily Star.
>
> It is a horrific situation.
>
> Hey Badrul - talk about everything but don't talk about AL leaders who are behind the banning. Bloody rubbish Nethri system turns men into mice.
>
> And Badrul is a mouse. Just like every other man who swears blind loyalty to his Nethri and doesn't have the basic morals to protest injustice within his party.
>
> We are a nation of mice.
>
> --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "ezajur" <Ezajur@> wrote:
> >
> > Syed Badrul Ahsan is the Head of Awami League Current Affairs at the Daily Star. This piece is one of the best examples of what is wrong with intellectualism in Bangladesh today. This piece is deliberately diversionary and misleads the reader to a place far away from where the reader should be. It is political trickery posing as non partisan intellectualism.
> >
> > It is appalling that he is in such an important position and it is appalling that he is getting away with this kind of journalism - a kind of yellow journalism that hides both its real origins and its real motives.
> >
> > This is about as irrelevant and nonsensical a piece that you will find.
> >
> > Just what the politicians love to see in our papers.
> >
> > Instead of holding authorities to account Syed Badrul Ahsan has us reaching for our dictionary.
> >
> > Hey Badrul! Nowka! Nowka!
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Ezajur Rahman <Ezajur@> wrote:
> > >
> > > The sky, the mind, the ban culture
> > > Sadat Uddin Ahmed AmilSyed Badrul Ahsan
> > > THE ban on Facebook could be lifted within days. Or perhaps by the time you read this in print, it might already have been withdrawn. But that is not what exercises our minds at this point. What we are upset about is the brusqueness with which the attack on Facebook was made. Of course, if there is anything obscene that has appeared on it, if the reputations of citizens, powerful or meek, have been ridiculed, all that the authorities needed to do was to go after those who indulged in such nefarious deeds. But to assume that an entire system can be done away with or simply run out of town only rekindles in us all the old thoughts of bygone rulers trying to govern us through control mechanisms that eventually did not amount to much. Control led to chaos. The mechanisms broke down.
> > > The trouble with the post-modern era is that you cannot have all your wishes come true. All this technology around you is really daunting. More importantly, there is the matter of citizens' increasingly powerful sensibilities coming into play. Think back on the Tagore centenary celebrations in 1961 here in this land. Much effort was put into the job of trying to disrupt the proceedings by the Ayub Khan regime because it and its toadies believed Bengalis were actually celebrating the genius of a Hindu bard. Nothing worked for the regime, though. The presence of Justice Syed Mahbub Murshed at the head of the Tagore programme warded off the sinister shadow of the regime. The wolves then lay low, until the time came a few years later when Khwaja Shahabuddin, Ayub's information minister, finally clamped a ban on Tagore music in East Pakistan. That victory proved pyrrhic, though. By the late 1960s, Tagore was back and with him, with Bangabandhu Sheikh
> Mujibur
> > > Rahman in the forefront, Bengali nationalism was in the ascendant.
> > > Banning has never been a solution to a problem. It has been a problem on its own. Look at the record. Military regimes in Bangladesh and Pakistan, having shot their way into power, have gone for imposing a ban on or a suspension of the constitution. That act was speedily complemented by restrictions on the way women would move around. It is rather curious that one of the first things coup-makers do is push civilised laws under the carpet and go for an inspection of female anatomy, in the latter instance, eventually deciding what women should be wearing or not wearing. Well, as history informs us so gleefully, constitutions have always come back and women have certainly refused to have their couture chosen by soldiers propping up illegitimate governments. Usurper regimes have gone for a ban on politicians and political parties. Yahya Khan thought banning the Awami League in 1971 would resuscitate a dying Pakistan in our lives. In the event, the Awami
> > > League only made sure that Pakistan was banned in Bangladesh for all time in December 1971.
> > > There is something about the mind that rebels, always. When you ban a book, you are not only stifling intellectual freedom but also you are, at the same time, provoking people into wanting to read it. It is then that clandestine ways are discovered for the book to be distributed to as wide a circle as possible. You can threaten a writer with beheading; you can force a writer into exile. But do not forget that such ham-fisted measures only make the writer that much more appealing and readers that much more demanding. You can come up with all the excuses you can muster about the absence of moral dimensions in a movie and then clamp a ban on it. Once you do that, you are helping in the creation of an insular world for yourself. Insularity, you will of course remember, was what brought down apartheid South Africa and white minority-ruled Rhodesia.
> > > There is a certain degree of arrogance which comes with banning. Turkey's generals, for all their appreciable role in upholding the country's secular traditions, made the mistake of arguing that women could not wear headscarves. The consequence was defiance. Watch the wife of President Abdullah Gul. She never lets go of her headscarf. And like her, other Turkish women have taken to ignoring the scowl of the army. Just as the state cannot decree what raiment people can get into, individuals or groups of individuals cannot and must not insist that a particular sect of believers be proscribed as a faith. You can observe your religion in all its totality, but you cannot turn it into a weapon to intimidate adherents of other beliefs. In much the same way, you cannot be self-righteous about your politics and then use it to hunt down people and destroy their reputations on spurious charges of treason. If you do, you will find the guillotine waiting for you.
> Do
> > > not forget America's Joe McCarthy.
> > > The mind is certainly wider than the sky. You cannot outlaw the sky, can you? Why must you then try putting the mind in fetters? Why not ban the ban culture itself?
> > > Syed Badrul Ahsan is Editor, Current Affairs, The Daily Star.
> > > Email: bahsantareq@
> > >
> >
>


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Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fwd: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country



Its foolish to measure our success by the proliferation of our names.....another typically ignorant Bangladeshi mentality.

Emanur Rahman | m. +447734567561 | e. emanur@rahman.com


From: "Mohd. Haque" <haquetm83@yahoo.com>
Sender: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:52:13 -0700 (PDT)
To: <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
ReplyTo: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fwd: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country

Dear Alochoks,
 
If we connect the jergon - best brains are not allowed to stay in the country or they are settled in outside. When I do believe this, yet I am frustrated as I notice that all these best brains serving the best economies and societies or humanities, there contributions do not appears as such.
If you go to a book shelf in - say Dubai or Kuala Lumpur or in London or New York how many titles you see authored by our best brains settled and enjoyed their lives in west. Please do not bring in Tommy Mian or Monica Ali as reference.
 
Would appreciate if you can start a healthy debate on my frustration.

--- On Fri, 9/7/10, ezajur <Ezajur@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: ezajur <Ezajur@yahoo.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: Fwd: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, 9 July, 2010, 12:09 AM

 
They are happy because most of them have given up on having higher expectations of Bangladesh. As with many things in life - one can be happier if one cares less. This disengagement is NOT from world trends. They want to go out and meet world trends head on. Their disengagement is from trends in Bangladesh.

They want to leave the country not because of ignorance of the outside world but because of their knowledge of the world inside Bangladesh.

You could not last 5 minutes in an argument with a youngster determined to build a life abroad. And you needn't worry. As a nation we don't want or encourage young talent to stay. Which is why no one gives a damn that every year thousands of our best young people leave.

This is the Bangladesh created by the older generation who support the crimes and lies of AL and BNP. And now this same generation blames the younger generation. No wonder our youth have disengaged.

Political activists aren't worth the spit of our young people. Our young people go abroad and lead more productive lives in safer environments with a better ethical setting.

Parents and grandparents don't encourage their kids to return even if it breaks their hearts.

Because of our politics.

Even all the AL who faint at the sight of Joy know that what they like about Joy would not be there if Joy had spent his life in Bangladesh mixing in AL circles. Dhekthe hobeh na kar nathi? Ji na. Dhekthe hobeh kuthai manush hoilo.

42% want to leave their country - its a good sign. It indirectly shows the rejection of the Bangladesh of AL and BNP.

Even AL and BNP activists abroad don't return to Bangladesh when their party wins power!

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> ------ Forwarded message ----------
> From: Javed Ahmad
>
> They are 'happy' because they are not aware of many of the world trends
> and events that is taking shape and how they might affect them. And they
> 'want to leave the country' because they do not know what 'freedom' means as
> the world is gradually turning into a prison. Our present young generation
> are the believers of "ignorance is bliss". Soon they would come to know the
> truth and will be totally clue less. Perhaps then they would come to
> understand that this life is not a bed of roses.
>
> --- On *Sun, 6/13/10, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Isha Khan <bdmailer@...>
> Subject: Re: Happy youth: 42% wants to leave the country
> To:
> Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010, 2:28 AM
>
>
> *Most youths are happy, but half of them want to go abroad*
>
> *British Council* survey reveals
>
> Eighty eight per cent of young people in Bangladesh are either happy or very
> happy while 42 per cent young people want to go abroad, said a survey report
> conducted by the British Council.
>
> On the findings of the study, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said: "The total
> number of young people in Bangladesh is around 55 million. Among this 88 per
> cent are happy or very happy while 1.6 per cent are unhappy. It's a positive
> sign for our country. As the young generation is happy they can bring a
> better future for the country."
>
> She said 76.5 per cent of youth believe women should play a greater role in
> decision making affecting their community while 73 per cent of them own a
> mobile phone. Both are good signs as we are going on our way of fulfilling
> Vision 2021, she added.
>
> The foreign minister said this while speaking at the launching ceremony of
> the survey report titled "Bangladesh: The Next Generation" at a city hotel
> on Saturday.
>
> British High Commissioner Stephen Evans said: "This survey demonstrates the
> need and opportunities offered by mobilising one of the Bangladesh's
> greatest assets--the 55 million young people between the ages of 15 and 30
> and pointed to the significance of active citizenship in building
> communities and improving livelihood to take Bangladesh forward."
>
> British Council Director Charles Nuttall OBE recognised the transformational
> power of young Bangladeshis and added: "We hope the report will promote
> discussion on how the immense social and human capital that Bangladeshi
> youth have to offer can be harnessed."
>
> The survey involved hour long interviews with 2,167 males and females aged
> between 15 and 30, which the British Council claims were representatives of
> the demographics of young people in Bangladesh.
>
> The survey found that young people had an overall positive view of the
> country's progress - with 79 percent believing that "the country is heading
> in the right direction". However, 60 percent of the interviewees said that
> they felt that corruption will or may get worse in the next five years.
>
> They ranked bribery as the second most important factor, next to education,
> in securing a job- with 12 percent believing it to be the major factor.
>
> It also found that only 15 percent thought that student politics is a good
> thing. Another 36 percent said student politics has a detrimental effect on
> educational institutions.
>
> http://fe-bd.com/more.php?news_id=102985&date=2010-06-13
>
> On 6/13/10, Isha Khan
> <bdmailer@...<http://mc/compose?to=bdmailer@...>>
> wrote:
> >
> > *British Council* survey on bangladesh youth
> >
> > http://www.dailyjanakantha.com/news_view.php?nc=15&dd=2010-06-13&ni=21648
> >
>




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