[ALOCHONA] Re: Nimtali Fire

Dear Alochok Haque

The Nimtali fire is long since forgotten. What we remember are the Nimtali Brides. How romantic it was to have them wed at a state function, presided over by the Prime Minister as some sort of surrogate mother. The nation wed them off and now the nation can move forward.

Not for us the lengthy debate about how superstitions still govern our culture - ie the brides brought good luck.

Nope. Our romantic side and sentimental side is satisfied by the weddings. Rumour has it the grooms were threatened with jail if they broke their vows. After all it is a wedding presided over by Hasina.

She knows all there is to know about how to make a marriage work.

Ezajur rahman
Kuwait

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "Mohd. Haque" <haquetm83@...> wrote:
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> What an irony! It was not a shock not a tragedy. yes, as this kind of things are happening everyday, how that can be. it is a ritual, it is a vet to the alter of this nation. Blood that spill on the highway every passing day is required to keep the 'devi' alive. Not only those poor travellars lives but many others blood in random to be given. e to ek moha joggo shuru hayese 50 bosor dhore ( এতà§&lsqauo; এক মহাজজ্ঞ শুরু হয়েছে ৫০ বছর ধরে)। No, No. Mujib shouldn't be blamed. This blame game is emanating from the myth and legend (all are  exaggeratged) which any thinking mind should oppose. Mujib was there for only few years, how many rulers came and gone we had ample time and still have, to correct the situation.
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> Start from the government's land and housing policy, what do you make of it.
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> Rajuk - whose legacy it follows - Mujib, Zia, certainly you know the answer.
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> Look at the public safety rules, its legal values and its logistics.
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> And foremost - Dhaka's development planner, what city they have planned. Europe has congested neighborhood like old dhaka (when it was originally built).
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> Then comes you and I, what did we do seeing those lash ( লাশ) either on TV, street or in our neibourhood, blood was for the 'devi' but those bodies they were belong to one of us but how come nothing arouse in so many year in us.
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> You know why - we have not only lost our human characteristics but we all turned into 'devi', we want to make a case against or for our nationalist or shadhinotar pokhyer shokti and to emulate anther blame game.
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> an incorrigable nation and its thinking(?) bangals.
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> Nothing personal.
> --- On Fri, 11/6/10, Emanur Rahman <emanur@...> wrote:
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> From: Emanur Rahman <emanur@...>
> Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] Nimtali Fire
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, 11 June, 2010, 9:30 AM
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> The New Age is far too dramatic and exaggerates the impact of this event on the population. I was in Bangladesh when this tragedy unfolded.
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> Was it a tragedy? Yes. Was it shocking? No, it was not. No one was surprised. No one was outraged. They only wondered when the next collapse would happen and how many more people would be allowed to die because of corruption in local government.
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> Be under no illusion - the victims were allowed to die nee killed by our politicians and the corruption they spawn and foster in our country.
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> How many building code violations have been ignored through bribes to the Rajuk and similar authorities?
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> Are you sure your brand new luxury flat in Dhaka is truly safe?
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> The simple fact is that life in Bangladesh is cheap. It has been made cheap by our political class and their sycophants. Mujib's polticization of state institutions is the direct cause of this and so many other avoidable tragedies that happen everyday in Bangladesh. Our nethris and their sycophants seek only to continue and en-trench this legacy further.
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> I brook no moral outrage to such events as long as we as a nation continue to tolerate our nethris for as long as we do, such tragedies are nothing but fodder for coffee table politicians. ....
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> ....like myself.
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> Emanur Rahman | m.
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