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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

[ALOCHONA] Humayun Faridi on present situation



Humayun Faridi on present situation


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[ALOCHONA] sad news



Teen calls mum as bears eat her




A Russian teenager spoke to her mother by telephone for more than an hour as she was eaten alive by bears.

The Daily Mail reports that Olga Moskalyova, 19, gave a chilling hour-long running commentary on her own death in three separate calls as the wild animals mauled her near a river in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, eastern Siberia, recently.

Olga's distraught mother Tatiana listened on a mobile phone as her teenage screamed: "Mum, the bear is eating me! Mum, it's such agony. Mum, help."

"Mum, the bears are back. She came back and brought her three babies. They're... eating me.

"Mum, it's not hurting any more. I don't feel the pain. Forgive me for everything, I love you so much."

Tatiana told London's Daily Mail that at first she thought her daughter was joking.





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[ALOCHONA] An Eye Opener Interview with Maudoodi's son





 



--- On Wed, 8/17/11, Shahid Husain

 An Eye Opener Interview with Maudoodi's son

 

 

 

 



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[mukto-mona] Driving license without test?



Dear Editor,
 
Hope you are doing well and thanks for publishing my previous write ups.
 
This is an article titled "Driving license without test?". I will be highly honoured if you publish this article. I apprecite your time to read this article.
 
Thanks
 
Have a nice time
 
With Best Regards
 
Ripan Kumar Biswas
New York, U.S.A
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Driving license without test?
 
Ripan Kumar Biswas
Ripan.Biswas@yahoo.com
 
Though I had driving experience in several countries, it took five attempts to get my driving license in New York City. In my first attempt, I failed because of rain. I didn't reduce the speed while I was making left turn. When asked why I didn't reduce speed, I replied to the examiner that I forgot to follow the speed limit during rain which is lower than the regular limit. The examiner pressed the safety brake and returned my learner permit card along with the result slip, with the remark: "Rain is the part of our life and life is precious and we may not have second chance in the roads while we drive."
 
Motorists are almost universally required to take lessons with an approved instructor and pass a driving test before being granted a license. Almost all countries allow all adults with good vision to apply to take a driving test and, if successful, to drive on public roads. In many countries, even after passing one's driving test, new drivers may be initially subject to special restrictions. For example, in Australia, novice drivers are required to carry "provisional" plates, and are subject to alcohol limits, and other restrictions for their first two years of driving. In California, licensed drivers (ages 16) are able to drive only with a family member for the first year. While in New York, even after securing driving license, drivers must need to go through defensive driving course, vision test, drug test and many more to keep their license alive.
 
Driving is the controlled operation and movement of a vehicle, such as a car, truck or bus. But driving in traffic is more than just knowing how to operate the mechanisms which control the vehicle. It requires knowing how to apply the rules of the road which govern safe and efficient sharing with other users. An effective driver also has an intuitive understanding of the basics of vehicle handling. As per section 03 of MV Ordinance 1983 of Bangladesh, to drive a motor vehicle in a public place every one must have driving license and to obtain a driving license one should hold a learner driving license before appearing the driving test. While a government takes oath to ensure the safety and security of its citizen, it is very hard to accept that Bangladesh Road Transport Authority is going to issue more than 24,000 new driving license without any test which has been suggested by the shipping minister Shajahan Khan, vice President of Jatio Sramik League and executive president of Bangladesh Road Transport Worker Federation.
 
Of all the systems with which people have to deal every day, road traffic systems are the most complex and the most dangerous. Road traffic injuries are a major but neglected public health challenge that requires concerted efforts for effective and sustainable prevention. The World Health Organization (WHO) says, every year 1.2 million people die in road accidents - making it, according to WHO's 2004 calculations, the seventh biggest killer in the world, ahead of diabetes and malaria. The WHO predicted that between 2000 and 2015 road accidents would cause 20 million deaths, 200 million serious injuries, and would leave more than one billion people killed, injured, bereaved, or left to care for a victim. Projections indicate that these figures will increase by about 65% over the next 20 years unless there is new commitment to prevention. It has been estimated that, unless immediate action is taken, road deaths will rise to the fifth leading cause of death by 2030, resulting in an estimated 2.4 million fatalities per year.
 
In most regions of the world this epidemic of road traffic injuries is still increasing. Low-income and middle-income countries have the highest burden and road traffic death rates. The problem is acute in Bangladesh, which has one of the highest fatality rates for road accidents in the world. According to official statistics, every year about 10,000 people are killed in road accidents in the country. With a rate of 0.6 deaths per km, the fatality rate on the N2 highway is 10 times higher than Britain's most persistently high risk roads. Road traffic deaths and injuries place an enormous strain on a country's health care systems and on the national economy in general. In financial terms, accidents inflict a severe damage-no less than Tk 5,000 crore annually, or about 2% of the total GDP.
 
Road accidents in Bangladesh today have gotten to the stage where it seems that there is an epidemic. Typically the accidents are blamed mostly on engineering fault and badly maintained roads, bad weather, faulty vehicles, or disregard for traffic rules. But inexperienced drivers are the main cause of road accidents in Bangladesh. If the statistics of recent accidents in Bangladesh are checked, the major reason is always be the drivers' error. From the death of 44 school children into a pond in south-east Bangladesh to recent tragic death of two icons renowned filmmaker Tareque Masud and versatile media personnel Mishuk Munier—inexperienced, unlicensed, or uninsured driving were the main reason. While all deaths on the roads are tragic and every effort should be made to reduce the number where at all possible, how someone responsible from the government would require a huge number of driving license without any test or exam?
 
It does not matter how much we consider ourselves that we know driving, but driving a vehicle without proper training and test must always be avoided. Reason is very simple; we are putting our own life in danger including the thousands surrounding us.
 
Drive ability of a vehicle means the smooth delivery of power, as demanded by the driver. A driver must be able to control direction, acceleration, and deceleration. Beside technical and mechanical knowledge of the vehicle, s/he has to have the ability to make good decisions based on factors such as ongoing road and traffic conditions. The driver must consciously choose every move and his/her mind should be freed from thinking about how to drive. A driver is subjected to the laws of the jurisdiction in which s/he is driving. The rules of the road, driver licensing and vehicle registration schemes that apply vary considerably between jurisdictions, as do laws imposing criminal responsibility for negligent driving, vehicle safety inspections and compulsory insurance. A driver must not leave the scene of accident at any reason.
 
On 11-12 May 2011, Bangladesh observed the first "United Nations Decade of Action for Road safety," along with other member countries of UN to ensure a world free of high risk roads. A MOU has been signed between Chief Engineer Roads and Highways Department and Regional Director, iRAP Asia Pacific for implementing iRAP on major highways in Bangladesh.
UNESCAP will help to develop national road safety goals. Meanwhile, government is going to incorporate a chapter on road safety and road use in primary and secondary textbooks next year to raise awareness about it. No doubt, all this attempts will bring more awareness about road safety, but it will be absolutely wrongdoing if the government would issue more driving license without any test. A person with a gun may kill one or two, but a person without proper adequate driving training or test may kill hundreds or thousands.
 
Government should not only impose rigorous test for each and every new driving license seeker, but also should introduce periodical defensive driving test, vision test and drug test to all existing driving license holders to further renew their license. Accidents can still happen, but by getting adequate driving training can reduce the probability of an accident drastically.
 
Thursday, August 18, 2011, New York
Ripan Kumar Biswas is a freelance writer based in New York


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[mukto-mona] Where have you been, Mr. Buffet?



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Re: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani



farida majid + her friends, will never have the guts to talk about ' misdeeds" of AL leaders prior to March 1971.
How they fooled us with big promises during 1970 election and how they had never-ending fun in kolkata in 1971.

Ask AL people in Mymensingh, how they betrayed a local AL leader so that top AL leaders could snatch his
beautiful wife to their harem.

This is just 1 story of AL thugs, there are many more.


khoda hafez.


From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To: Alochona Alochona <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 15 August 2011 1:03 AM
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani

 
        What do you mean by "non religious"?  May be my English is not the same language as yours.  Or, it could be that any body who is not a blind communalist, not a Hindu-hater or a hatemonger and a 2-nation theory subscriber is being labeled by you as "non religious"?
 
           Are you advertising yourself as the model of a person who is "religious"? 

          So all those took part in the 1971 Genocide of innocent, non-threatening civilians, and those who brutally massacred Sheikh Mujib and his family on 15th Aug. 1975 are all to be called "religious". 
 
           If you had even a minimal comptence in English language, you would have understood that Maheen Usmani's article is strongly opposing any such crazy suggestion.
 
           You do suffer from the delusions of a psychopath.

To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: banglar_12_bhuiyan@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 12:37:41 +0100
Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani

 
Lets go for non religious see how they work:
 
Non religious do not have a single moral standing - in 1954 anti corruption minister in 1971 becoming father of the nation.
 
In 1972 nationalising all the industries - by that way destryed all the industrial booming (Zia de-nationalised, saved the nation) 
 
1974 Bakshal established
 
All these are RANGILA acting by so called upper class non-religious RANGILA literate Actors.

From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011, 18:03:34
Subject: [ALOCHONA] FW: The ideology of thought control in Pakistan Dawn By Maheen Usmani

 
             The "ideology of Pakistan" comes in vari-colored packages and 'moraks' in Bangladesh and we are too dumbed down by the politicians to pause and ponder.  One of the packages is labeled "Shonarbangladesh," a web magazine of the Jamaat. There is also the newspaper Amar desh.
                        
             The interesting point made by this article is that the brainwashed people are the literates, the educated and the middle class.  We in Bangladesh automatically assume that the illiterates are the ones who are the first to be duped by the bogey of Islam.
 
              In my opnion illiterates are the smarter and being more genuinely religious, they are the ones who reject the fake 'dharmo-onuragi' amongst the populace and the politicians.  Our literate middle class people love false mollas or 'bok-dharmiks'.
 
                Farida Majid    

The ideology of thought control in Pakistan

By Maheen Usmani
 
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. It has become something of a personality cult in Pakistan. Nowhereis this cognitive dissonance more visible than amongst the educated who refuse to accept facts and logic, clinging instead to a neurotic persecution complex.
 
Columnist Khaled Ahmed says: "The vast majority of literate Pakistanis take comfort in ignorance, skepticism and conspiracy theories. The self-glorification of an imagined past matched by habits of national denial have assumed crisis proportions today when Pakistan's existence is under far more serious threat from fellow Muslims than it was in 1947 from rival non Muslim communities." What lies beneath this inability to critique and lack of intelligent analysis? Undoubtedly, one's education influences views on politics and society. As Robert Frost aptly puts it: "education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."
 
To sift the chaff from the grain, let us consider a ubiquitous slogan about the 'ideology' of Pakistan. A staple of our school textbooks, it echoed in massive public rallies as well as debates on secularism. Pakistan ka matlab kiya? La illaha il lallah (What is the meaning of Pakistan? There is no God but Allah) has become the rallying cry of the campaign to Islamise Pakistani society. Ironically, it is a slogan that was coined long after the creation of Pakistan, but it is now being falsely ascribed to the leaders of the Pakistan movement in 1947.
 
Religion has often proved to be a powerful binding factor which has merged heterogeneous groups into a distinct nationality. Through appeal to supernatural authority, religion promotes national unity as a divine command. Examples abound in contemporary history: the Greek church as a source for Greek nationalism, the Catholic church as a factor in Irish separatism, Judaism and the state of Israel, Islam and Pakistan.
 
Soon after he seized power in 1977, General Zia ul-Haq sought to create a nation based on religion rather than on secular principles. An important part of the Islamisation agenda was defining the Islamic 'ideology' of Pakistan. In stark contrast to modern textbooks, no textbook written prior to 1977 mentions the 'Ideology of Pakistan'.
 
Since education was a key factor in Zia's Machiavellian manoeuvrings, a presidential order was issued that all Pakistan Studies textbooks must "demonstrate that the basis of Pakistan is not to be founded in racial, linguistic, or geographical factors, but, rather, in the shared experience of a common religion. To get students to know and appreciate the Ideology of Pakistan, and to popularise it with slogans. To guide students towards the ultimate goal of Pakistan – the creation of a completely Islamised State."
 
Instead of being a Muslim state as envisaged by its founders, Pakistan was recast in the mould of an Islamic state, where Islamic law would reign supreme. A state sponsored and systematic purging of liberal and secular values of future generations of Pakistan ensued.
 
History was rewritten to redefine Pakistani as an Islamic society, and no research on ancient India, the medieval period or the colonial era. Our history was linked with the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates, thus alienating it from ancient Indian history. This interpretation creates a Muslim consciousness that seeks it's identity outside India.

Historian Mubarak Ali cautions "History should not be influenced by religious beliefs since history has no religion. Pakistan came into being in 1947, but our history existed before this which cannot be deleted."
History textbooks written soon after Partition – a time when the grief of shattered families who experienced communal killings was at its peak – show a more liberal mindset. The history of the subcontinent was taken to start with the ancient Indus valley civilisations rather than with the conquest of India by the first Muslim invader, Mohammad bin Qasim, in 712. In contrast to today's history books, these books contained discussions of the empires of Emperor Ashoka and the Maurya dynasty. Has there has been a deliberate revival of communal antagonism over 30 years after Partition? Undoubtedly, the permanent militarisation of society requires a permanent enemy.
 
Although Edward Everett may state that "education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army", the task of defending Pakistan's ideological borders has been entrusted to the military as they are defenders of the 'faith.' Textbooks extol the achievements of Muslim conquering heroes, as well as those of the Armed Forces. In sharp contrast, no contributions by any heroes in fields like education, medicine, law or social work are highlighted.

September 6 commemorates the defense of the country against an Indian attack in 1965. According to our textbooks, it was India which attacked Lahore in the middle of the night, without any provocation, but our army won this war. The reality is that Pakistan started the 1965 war on August 5 by sending soldiers into Kashmir and India retaliated the following day.
 
Instead of the soul searching and accountability undertaken by nations like Japan and Germany after devastating wars, our history textbooks explained the separation of East Pakistan in 1971 as an evil design by India which created the guerrilla group Mukhti Bahini in order to seize Pakistani territory. Although we lost half of Pakistan, there was no mention of the gross inequalities which led to the grievances of the Bengalis. Tens of thousands died, millions were displaced, atrocities were committed and the country was rent asunder. But the guilty were never punished.
 
The seeds of the distortion of history and the preponderance of religious dogma which were sown decades ago are bearing fruit today. Examples from the curriculum designed by the Federal Ministry of Education abound. The Social Studies textbook for Class 7 says: "European nations have been working during the past three centuries, through conspiracies on naked aggression to subjugate the countries of the Muslim world."
 
14-year-old students of Pakistan Studies are being taught that: "one of the reasons of the downfall of the Muslims in the sub-continent was the lack of the spirit of jihad."
13-year-olds are instructed: "In Islam jihad is very important…..The person who offers his life never dies….All the prayers nurture one's passion of jihad."
Thus, a primary and secondary school environment is being created which is nurturing prejudice and extremism. "College and university come much too late; change must begin at the primary and secondary school level," sums up physicist and lecturer Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy.

Although religious schools or madrassas in Pakistan are often blamed for breeding extremism, only 6 per cent of children are educated in these schools. Furthermore, research does not confirm the link between madrassa education and terrorism. The cause for the intolerance experienced by Ahmadis, Hindus and Christians lies in public education, structured as it has been to defend Pakistan against some phantom enemy. Non-Muslims are forced to read the same textbooks which contain derogatory remarks against Hindus, e.g being eternal enemies of Muslims. Our myopic educational system discourages questioning and causes ethnic and religious minorities to be viewed with suspicion.
 
Pakistan is primarily a young country, so it is the youth which is severely impacted by rampant unemployment, inflation, corruption and violence. Many amongst this disenchanted segment have started seeing religion as their anchor and are attracted to demagogues like Zaid Hamid. A self-proclaimed jihadist who claims to have fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan, Hamid banks on the insecurity and frustrations of college students and television viewers. Just as Adolf Hitler dwelt on Germany's 'wounded honour' in his famous beer-hall oratory in Munich (where he promised that Germany would conquer the world), Hamid calls for the Pakistan Army to go to war against India and liberate Kashmir, Palestine, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
 
Our curriculum stresses the formal and ritualistic aspects of Islam, as against those which emphasise social justice. Science and secular knowledge are regarded with contempt. Dr Hoodbhoy says, "I have never seen a first-rate Muslim scientist become an Islamist or a terrorist even when he or she is a strong believer. But second-and third-rate technologists are more susceptible. These are people who use science in some capacity but without any need to understand it very much—engineers, doctors, technicians, etc.—all of whom are more inclined towards radicalism. They have been trained to absorb facts without thinking, and this makes them more susceptible to the inducements of holy books and preachers."

The steady diet of religious fundamentalism and blind faith has clouded objective and rational thinking, and transformed Pakistan from a moderate Muslim-majority country into one where the majority wants Islam to play a key role in politics. A 2008 survey by World Public Opinion found that 54 per cent of Pakistanis wanted strict application of Sharia. The British Council polled 1226 young Pakistanis between 18 and 29 in 2009 and found that 'three-quarters of all young people identify themselves primarily as Muslims. Just 14 per cent chose to define themselves primarily as a citizen of Pakistan.'
 
Pakistan's skewed priorities may account for the huge amount spent on its ever increasing "defence needs" and only 1.5 per cent of it's GDP on education. But lost in the brouhaha over the lack of access to education is the dire need to revise the dogmatic and distorted school curriculum. As the pendulum swings in Pakistan between radicals and moderates, we need our friends to stand with us and demand that Pakistanis don't need an education which stunts, blinds, distorts and deadens any more. As Alvin Toffler said, "The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."
 
Maheen Usmani is a freelance journalist. She has reported on varied subjects, ranging from socio-political issues to sports, travel, culture and counter terrorism.
 








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Re: [ALOCHONA] Why Bangladesh is very important to India



what is the problem......zana is just reflecting on facts of life!!!!

we all know that and some of us try to keep these facts under the carpet.


khoda hafez.


From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To: Alochona Alochona <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, 15 August 2011 2:27 AM
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Why Bangladesh is very important to India

 
          Who the hell is this?  Another Sunita Paul, an expert in South Asian affairs? Although it is true that India is fighting several separatist movements all over India and especially in the North-East, the talk of India wanting "unlimited access" into Bangladesh is a fruit of an overheated imbecile brain.
 
         <<In recent years , India needed to have unlimited access into Bangladesh to punish, monitor and destroy all kinds of freedom movement from the north-east states of India including Chinese influence over them. Bangladesh blocks their view of monitoring and establishing domination of the central government. India needed Hasina and her BAL to fulfil their ability to control, monitor and establish Indian authority. Besides, India considers that they won Bangladesh in the Indo-Pak war.>>

       Let us try to diagnose the disease from which this moronic patient is suffering. Who habitually describes 1971 War of Liberation as Indo-Pak war?  Where do we find the description of India's military assistance to Mukti fighters as India's 'winning' of Bangladesh in 1971?  For answers to these questions look up the web site of Golam Azam of Jamaati Islam of Bangladesh.
 
             You can fool some of the people some of the time. But you cannot fool all the people even for a brief period of a concocted article in the FaceBook.
 

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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:07:32 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Why Bangladesh is very important to India

 
Why Bangladesh is very important to India

Zana Ghutekurani in FaceBook

After the foundation of India and Pakistan, India became friend with USSR (& other leftist countries) and Pakistan became friend with China and USA . Need to mention that during that time USA had love-affair with middle eastern belt. Balanced power distribution, bipolar hegemony in imp for the peace process or negotiating power around the world. When USSR was unbroken, small countries had opportunity to negotiate and place its position.

The Indo-Pak war (1971), which we call the war of independence (1971), the dissection of east wing from the west wing of Pakistan provided India with opportunity to establish its unipolar hegemony in this region. Thus , after 71, India did not require to look back. Specially after the killing of Khalistan movement India gained its absolute power in this region.

Therefore, When India won in Indo-Pak war and occupied east wing , none of the friends of Pakistan (eg, USA , China) was happy, and did not want to recognise it as a sovereign state .

After the breakdown of USSR, the dynamics in the global power distribution changed overnight. While in 1947, we witnessed bi-polar hegemony (USSR vs USA) the world begins its journey within uni-polar hegemony, and USA gained absolute power.

And USA receive the opportunity to ask for anything, became a wild brat. This is very uncomfortable situation for many countries, for instance, right now the middle eastern countries are under fire. May be it will not be smarter to think that, the USA is fighting against terrorism. Note , one of the major OPEC pipe lines going via Afghanistan. ( Iraq had another one :).

At present USA does not have good relation with China. USA has taken loans from China which it cannot pay back. Besides china owns many businesses in USA too. It is not good news for USA that china is becoming stronger day by day , thus threat to USA (This is why we hear that the China doesn't have democracy :P and the medias of USA are writing a lot on lack of democracy, human rights violation in China) .

Now USA also needs India. Cheaper products, labour, IT/tech support etc are the plus points for USA to think India as their better recruit.

From the Indian side, since the arrival of the Muslims, the proponents of the newly revived Hinduism (900 to 1300) was not very happy. The Muslims who were mostly middle Eastern, not only started to take powers in many places overthrowing recently established Hindu royalties but also brought a religion which many people started to adopt . Until the arrival of the European business people , the anti-Muslim feelings was not there , but it was produced and nurtured under the famous "divide and rule" theory of The British. The birth of India and Pakistan is the contribution of that anti-Muslim attitude.

At current global situation, India's anti-muslim stand is expressed by liaison USA and also with Israel. Therefore, India became number a country to stand beside USA to assist it with spreading (USA) unipolar hegemony!

Close India-Israel tie of India is also considered as anti-middle eastern or anti-Arab stand. We already know that the formation of Israel is criticised by the most Muslim countries around the globe. Thus , having 20 corer Muslims, having close tie with Israel India further clarify its anti-muslim(also anti-middle-east) stand .

India is always interested to work on anything that will put Pakistan in disadvantaged condition and possible failure as a state. Not only India has its eyes on every inch of the land of Pakistani but taking opportunity to help USA and send its Army in Afghan is one step ahead of their expectation, which they never can think of losing.

On the other hand, the relation between India and China relation was never good. The issues on Tibet and Kashmir , they have many disagreements. , Besides the emergence of leftists in the north-eastern side of India also makes it enemy of China.

Recently ,the north-east part of India is experiencing agitation. Mostly the Indo-Tibetan and the Tibetan races live in that part . The cultures of that area which is distinct from the mainland India's culture also adds into this conflict. The influence of china there also is very important issue. The leftists parties have been able to influence people who are already disadvantaged and living in poverty.

India needs immediate control over those areas. [Please note that to dominate those areas, India mainly use their Bengalis from the West Bengal]
In recent years , India needed to have unlimited access into Bangladesh to punish, monitor and destroy all kinds of freedom movement from the north-east states of India including Chinese influence over them. Bangladesh blocks their view of monitoring and establishing domination of the central government. India needed Hasina and her BAL to fulfil their ability to control, monitor and establish Indian authority. Besides, India considers that they won Bangladesh in the Indo-Pak war.

It is also suspicious why Bangladesh experience so much turmoil in establishing government from 2006 to 2007. It seems that, right now India's main goal is to establish a suitable situation, in which it can influence any party that comes into power (eg, BNP and BAL). BAL has its history of unquestionable loyalty towards India, after all it has helped India to ensure unipolar hegemony in this region.

Now India may want other parties within the country to bargain with it in coming into power. It is considered that BAL had pre-election commitment with India long before election. Thus BAL is already India's pet.

India seriously need to pet other parties too. However, India will abhor both leftist and the Islamist parties for simple reasons. Leftists because their support from China (Mao), and Islamists due to its religious stand and its support from the Middle-east.

However, India is also in problematic situation in making friendship with BNP, one of the largest parties in Bangladesh. BNP has Bangladeshi 'nationalism' which directly contradicts Indian interest to domesticate Bangladesh via its west Bengal citizens, it also is influenced by the Islamic countries and china which India does not like.

If any leftist party , that is influenced by the leftists from the west Bengal, and also harbour strong ethnic identity as "Bengal" might also serve India's purpose, though the leftists influenced by China will not be quite expected for India to build friendship.

If India does not have plan to make Bangladesh another Kashmir, It will need to find more friends in Bangladesh. BAL and many of her followers have already opened their hearts , given themselves under the feet of Bharat Mata, now let us see who else India can manage her total access into Bangladesh in future to maintain its status in this region and free its north-eatsrern side from the chinese(leftist) influence.





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[ALOCHONA] Indonesia Bans Labor to Saudi Arabia

Posted by: "Shamim Chowdhury" veirsmill@yahoo.com   veirsmill

Wed Aug 17, 2011 9:02 am (PDT)



After Saudi Arabia beheaded a 54-year old Indonesian grandmother in June for
stabbing her Saudi employer to death, Indonesia declared a moratorium on
the migration of its nationals for domestic employment in the desert
kingdom, effective August 1.

Although the two countries were to adopt a bilateral agreement for protection of
Indonesian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia this year, no such document
has been signed.
Ruyati Binti Satubi, a household worker from West Java, was executed for
murder after she confessed slaying the man who had contracted her. The
Indonesian migrant, who has three children, said she killed her employer
because she was denied permission to return to her native land.

Media in Indonesia and elsewhere indicated that Ruyati Binti Satubi had been
subjected to other forms of abuse while working in the Saudi home,
located in Mecca, Islam's holiest city. Neither the Indonesian
authorities nor her family was informed of the death sentence until
after it was carried out, an action for which the Saudi regime
apologized to Jakarta. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
wrote in protest to Saudi King Abdullah after the execution, and the
Indonesian authorities followed up with the moratorium on exporting
laborers, enforced visibly at airports and through contracting agencies.

The beheading of Ruyati Binti Satubi was only the most recent in a series
of shocking cases involving Indonesian domestic workers in Saudi Arabia.
In April, Saudi authorities overturned a three-year prison sentence
against a 53-year old Saudi woman in Medina, for "torture" in the
beating and burning of her 23-year old maid, Sumiati Binti Salan
Mustapa.

That incident, like the execution of Ruyati Binti Satubi, caused widespread
protest in Indonesia, as well as increased reluctance to undergo the
risks of working in Saudi Arabia, which Indonesian workers described as
"horror stories." Indonesian media report that the flow of migrant
workers to the kingdom had already decreased by 30 percent in the first
quarter of this year. With imposition of the August labour embargo,
Indonesia was expected to lose $350 million worth of income.Some
20 Indonesians, mainly women, are said to face capital punishment in
Saudi Arabia. Indonesian officials say that 370,000 of their citizens
went to work in Saudi Arabia in 2010. Of these, more than 90 percent are
employed in the so-called "informal sector," that is, paid in cash,
without record-keeping or government oversight. British media states,
however, that 1.5 million Indonesians are working in Saudi Arabia.

Complaints of physical abuse and murder of Indonesian domestic servants
by Saudis have produced hundreds of cases, but like other emigrant
labourers in Saudi Arabia, Indonesians have no rights.
Indonesia had imposed new regulations on the employment of emigrants to Saudi
Arabia, under which the Saudi employee would be required to earn at
least $2,800 per month, and the number of family members and layout of
the residence would be registered.

Because of the rigid oversight of relations between family and non-family
members as dictated by Wahhabism, the Saudi state form of Islam, the
kingdom has one of the highest proportions of immigrant laborers in the
world; they currently account for 5.5 million out of 26 million people,
or 20 percent. Foreign observers describe the Saudi demand for foreign
housemaids, drivers, and similar employees as inexhaustible. Saudi
subjects are discouraged from such work.

Millions of Pakistanis, Afghans, Indians, Bangladeshis, Indonesians, Filipinos, South Koreans, and Sri Lankans
receive low wages, when not subjected to outright Slavery and extreme
abuse, while toiling for Saudi masters. Domestic and other low-skill
workers live apart from the Anglo-American, other European, and similar
foreign technicians, who serve the petrochemical and other advanced
industries, and who reside in segregated, protected communities that
seek to reproduce the conditions in their advanced countries of origin.

While no religion other than Islam is permitted public observance in Saudi
Arabia, foreign petrochemical and defence professionals are allowed to
hold Christian and other services within their homes. But Christians,
Buddhists, and Hindus from the Philippines, South Korea, and Sri Lanka
are prohibited from practicing their faiths; and even Pakistani, Bangladeshis and
Indonesian Muslims, who work in Saudi Arabia face religious
discrimination. For example, preaching in South and Southeast Asian
languages in Mosques and similar activities are forbidden, as are Sufi
observances, popular in Pakistan and Indonesia alike. No other Muslim
state imposes such restrictions. Nevertheless, many Muslims are lured to
work in the kingdom because of its religious prestige.

With 86 percent of its population of 245 million counted as Muslims,
Indonesia has the largest Islamic population of any country in the
world. Indonesian domestic workers earn about $200 per month in Saudi
Arabia, a wage superior to those an Indonesian migrant villager with a
primary-school education would be paid in the east Asian industrialized
nations, such as Japan or Taiwan.

At the beginning of August, the official Saudi Arab News announced that
two Indonesian women sentenced to beheading would be reprieved and
repatriated. Identified only by their first names, Emi was convicted of
killing her employer's child, and Nesi of using "Black Magic" against
her employer. Executions for alleged "Witchcraft" are common in the
kingdom, which has experienced recurrent panic over "Sorcery."

Shamim Chowdhury, Maryland, U.S.A

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Guest post by JYOTI RAHMAN Nirad C Chaudhuri and Jatin Sarker were both born in Hindu families in the Mymensingh district of eastern Bengal, now Bangladesh. Chaudhuri, about four decades older than Sarkar, wrote his autobiography before India held its first election, and ceased to be an unknown Indian. Sarker also wrote his life story. Unlike [...]

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The Banality of Bengal: Jyoti Rahman on the Tribulations of the Bangaldeshi Hindus

August 16, 2011

by JYOTI RAHMAN

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http://kafila.org/2011/08/16/the-banality-of-bengal-jyoti-rahman-on-the-tribulations-of-the-bangaldeshi-hindus/

 

List of names of Hindu students and professors massacred at Jagannath Hall on night of 25th March, 1971 by the Pakistani Army. Click to enlarge. Photo credit: Udayan Chattopadhyay.

 

Nirad C Chaudhuri and Jatin Sarker were both born in Hindu families in the Mymensingh district of eastern Bengal, now Bangladesh. Chaudhuri, about four decades older than Sarkar, wrote his autobiography before India held its first election, and ceased to be an unknown Indian. Sarker also wrote his life story. Unlike Chaudhuri, Sarker's was in Bangla, published in Bangladesh, never translated in English, and not available in India or beyond. He remains unknown. Which is a pity, because if you want to know what has happened to the land where both these men were born, Sarker is a far, far better guide than Chaudhuri.

 

Sarker, of course, stopped being an Indian on 14 August 1947, when Mymensingh became part of East Pakistan — the eastern wing of Jinnah's moth-nibbled land of the pure. His family didn't move to India. They were not atypical. Many Hindu families remained in East Pakistan. Perhaps it was the presence of Gandhi. Perhaps it was the fantastical belief that Subhas Chandra Bose would return in 1957 — a century after the Great Uprising, two centuries after the Battle of Plassey — to reunite Mother Bengal. 

 

There were no trains full of dead bodies to and from Calcutta. Not that there was no Hindu exodus from East Pakistan. Far from it. In 1941, 28% of the people of the districts that became East Pakistan were Hindus.  A decade later, the share had dropped to 22%.  By 1961, 18.5%.  There were emigrations in dribs and drabs, with major outflows during the communal violence of 1946, 1950, and 1964.

 

There were riots in India, too. West Bengal was a peripheral state in the Indian Federation. Those Hindus who moved from East Pakistan to India — mainly but not wholly to Calcutta — became part of that troublesome city's doomed citizenry. No one really cared much for them in Delhi or Bombay, where power and wealth resided.

 

What of those who stayed back? Sarker describes the lives of middle class bhadralok (gentry) Hindus of mofussil East Pakistan in Pakistan-er Janma Mrittu Darshan ('Witnessing the Life and Death of Pakistan'). While he stopped being an Indian on 14 August 1947, he didn't become a Pakistani. That country was an Islamic Republic. Hindus were not equal citizens there. They were dhimmis, under the 'sacred protection' of the majority.

 

Sarker could never be a Pakistani, but his Bengali Muslim neighbours did not quite feel at home in Pakistan either. In 1971, when East Pakistan died and Bangladesh was born, Sarker thought he would become an equal citizen of a free country. A country that was created with the sacrifice of Hindus and Muslims alike (the image above lists Hindu staff and students of Dhaka University gunned down by the Pakistan army on 25 March 1971).

 

And on paper he is. Bangladesh is not an Islamic Republic. There is no formal discrimination with respect to religion. Hindus are not formally denied a job, a bank loan, or admission to an educational institution (except madrassahs of course). On paper, Sarker has no reason to write Bangladeshey Pakistan-er bhut darshan ('Witnessing Pakistan's Ghost in Bangladesh'). That is slated to be the sequel to his first book. Here he is expected to mark the return of ideas, including communalism, that one associates with Pakistan. He is likely to talk about things that one did not wish for in the People's Republic of Bangladesh.

 

The exodus of Hindus, for one thing. That continued after 1971. Bangladesh's first census in 1974 saw the proportion of Hindu population fall to 13.5%. In 1981, it became 12.2%. In 1991, 10.5%. In 2001, 9.5%. How do we know its exodus, and not lower fertility among the Hindus? Professor Abul Barakat of Dhaka University asked precisely that question. Using historical birth rate differentials, he estimated that the Hindu population of Bangladesh should have been 19.5 million in 2001, 8.1 million higher than the actual counted in that year's census. This translates into over 200,000 missing Hindus a year over the previous three decades.

 

And there is no reason to think that this has changed in the past decade. How come this is not more broadly discussed (outside the Hindutva circles that is)? Because of the sheer banality of the misery faced by the Hindus of Bangladesh. There is no Gujrat moment for the Hindus of Bangladesh. Nothing like the anti-Sikh violence that engulfed India in 1984.  Instead, Bangladesh's Hindus face a myriad of biases and discrimination at school, university, jobs, banks and most facets of economic life.

 

Again, nothing on paper.  But try getting a bank loan if your surname is Das or Dey.

 

Did I say nothing on paper?  Make that mostly nothing on paper. There has been one law, Enemy Property Act 1965 and its Bangladeshi successors, that make things legally difficult for the Hindus. The Act allows the state to seize properties of those who leave the country. In practice, this has been used over the past four decades to grab Hindu properties. Barakat estimates that 43% of Hindu households have been affected by the Act, leading to a loss of about 45% of their property. Typically, local big-wigs — of all political parties, this is important — grab some prime land, and then use death or emigration of one of the family members as an excuse to enlist the entire property. If emigration is not voluntary, coercion or intimidation is commonplace.

 

Again, no mass killing or mob violence. Very boring, banal stuff that one sees in every town and every village in South Asia. But the effects are just as pernicious.

 

One might have thought that with two decades of electoral democracy, things would be changing. But if anything, democracy might have made things worse. Of 300 seats in Bangladesh's parliament, Hindus are a non-trivial minority in about 70. In a tight election, their votes can make a huge difference. Not allowing them to vote is one way of reducing their influence. That is precisely what happened in 2001. In that election, the Awami League received 40% of the votes, against the Bangladesh Nationalist Party's 41%. Unlike BNP, the League has a formal commitment to secularism, and thus has traditionally received most of the Hindu vote.  Before the 2001 election, there was widespread violence and intimidation against Hindu voters. And those who did vote for the League became the victim of the worst communal violence in independent Bangladesh after the election. Democracy, sadly, had not helped Bangladesh's Hindus.

 

The communal violence, however, did not go unnoticed. Progressives in Bangladesh organised relief efforts. The plight of the Hindus was not shrugged off in the manner of Pakistan days. But eventually things quietened down. The violence was not gruesome enough to sustain international attention. In fact, mention of the violence in the Indian media (particularly BJP-allied media), were dismissed as anti-Bangladesh propaganda. Meanwhile, for most Hindus in their daily lives, things continued to be difficult, in the banal manner of the past.

 

One might have thought things would have changed after 2008, when the League, with its commitment to secularism, returned to power in a landslide. Mamata Banerjee promised poriborton (change) in her landslide. Two and a half years earlier, Sheikh Hasina won hers promising din bodol (changing days). But the banality of misery, of silent discrimination, faced by Hindus seems to have continued. And there is a risk that their situation has been, and will be worsening. This risk comes from three factors.

 

First, the BNP remains allied with hardline Islamists, and eschews any commitment to secularism. This means, the League has an effective monopoly on the Hindu vote, and thus can simply ignore them. Worse, it can continue the discrimination and land grab, and frighten the Hindus about a 'return of BNP'.

 

And Hindus may well have a lot to be fearful of. In early 2009, the League made a lot of noise about being inclusive. But instead of setting up a Sachar-like body to investigate the magnitude of discrimination and practical remedies, the League's inclusiveness involved giving plum jobs to ill-qualified party hacks. Trouble is never far away when that kind of thing happens. Consider the case of Neem Bhowmick, the poster child of the inclusive approach, ambassador to Nepal, who has been accused of sexual harassment.  Consider the case of Porimal Jayadhar, teacher in a top girls' school, accused of raping a student. It's not that only the Hindu partisan appointees have been guilty of terrible crimes of omissions and commissions. There are plenty of Muslim hacks too. But many Hindus fear that the sins of the handful of Hindus might lead to trouble for the whole community.

 

Lastly, and perhaps the most important reason why Hindus may be at risk of further misery is because of the hypocritical, partisan nature of much (though not all) of the country's civil society. After the 2001 violence, there was a huge outcry. But much of that was motivated by a dislike of BNP. Now that the League is in power, many of these voices have fallen silent, even if the actual conditions have changed little. There are not many outlets like Kafila in Bangaldesh that would be as vocal under Congress as under BJP. Again, the partisanship in Bangladeshi political discourse is very banal.

 

Having said all that, six and a half decades after Jinnah's Direct Action, a syncretic, secular future is still possible in Bangladesh. This is best articulated by Muhammad Shahidullah, a noted linguist from mid-20th century:

 

While it's true that we are Hindus or Muslims, it is a greater truth that we are Bengalis.  This is no ideological statement, rather it is a practical one.  The nature has left our faces and language with a stamp of Bengaliness that is too strong to be concealed by beads-sacred marks or lungis-skull caps.

 

Plastered on a wall in Dhaka University, that quote is a reason to believe that the life of Hindus will be better in tomorrow's Bangladesh.

 

This post relies on research by Naeem Mohaiemen.:




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