[ALOCHONA] Re: Digital Bangladesh ?

The subject line is simple and clear: Digital Bangladesh. It is appropriate because the article is indeed actually about bringing Bangladesh into the digital age.

 

The subject has the effect of being sarcastic only because of the lack of progress on the policy of a digital Bangladesh. That does not make the subject or the subject line or the sarcasm less apt.

 

This closet Nethrist loudly announces that the AL has formed the current government with a landslide majority – as if this somehow makes the subject, subject line and sarcasm less appropriate. But then, such thinking is the very definition of a Nethrist!

 

Having gotten the joke or sarcasm or whatever she should not feel smart and superior. She should be either angry that the government has failed in this particular respect or defend the government accordingly. Instead, as with all closet Nethrists, we get neither.

 

Instead we get talk about beautiful skies and the physical location of a computer in 2011. As if there are no closet Nethrists in Desh, or abroad, spending days on end trying to defend their party by talking about everything under the sun except governance.

 

Instead of talking on the subject at hand – how far the little boy is from a Digital Bangladesh – this Nethrist rather celebrates the boy's position on the plough. How ridiculous and irrelevant. The boy is happy, the parents work hard, the mud is rich, the skies are blue, and the clouds cotton like. We might as well finish her song – "Mujib's clan is on the throne, God is in the heavens and all is right with the world".    

 

She asks if we would prefer a picture of the boy playing a computer game – as if that is the definition of the government's Digital Bangladesh!

 

Perhaps she would have preferred a picture of the officer at Dhaka Airport writing a manual receipt for a TK 80k tax on electrical goods. Or perhaps the picture of another officer tearing the manual receipt halfway down the middle with his hands and saying that `this proves the receipt has been checked'.

  

And, like a true Nethrist, she rounds off all the dilution and diversion of the subject with a link to BNP and Tareq. Well, Tareq must have used some gizmo though I think Ghiyasuddin took cases of cash to Malaysia.

 

Why? What do AL thugs use? Do they use ploughs under blue skies to terrorise, extort and transport cash?

 

It's not that such Nethrists are dumb. Such Nethrists are actually very smart – but very misguided. And therein lays the tragedy. For our country can never truly and meaningfully progress until such people come to their senses and demand standards and ethics uniformly from every political party – and especially their own political party.

 

In the meantime. She can defend the government's progress by using the smile of a little boy on a plough. The boy is where he should be and so there is no problem. Only in Bangladesh can you get this kind of stuff.

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Farida Majid <farida_majid@...> wrote:
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> The subject line "Digital Bangladesh?" is a sarcastic jab at the election campaign promises of the AL who won a landslide victory at the last election and is now the major party of a coalition that has formed the Govt.
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> Like the rest of the Alochona members I got the joke, and having gotten it I should feel pretty smart and full of a sense of superiority. Or so is the intention of bd-mailer who never tires of these jabs at the current Govt. After all, here I am typing on my computer and not at that muddy paddy field where a family is hard at work planting the rice. Our intrepid bd-mailer, one presumes, never leaves his/her computer to glance at the beautiful skies, whether full of rain-clouds or bright blue with cotton flakes of clouds, of these monsoon months of Bengal. He and his computer are probably nowhere near Bangladesh.
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> I was actually thoroughly delighted by the photograph of this wonderful scene of Bangalee innovation in the midst of want and dearth. I said a prayer of goodwill for the boy riding on the 'moi' pulled by his parents wading in the rich mud. How much happier is he than the boy of his age stuck in the city of Dhaka with no playground either in school or in the neighborhood of his apartment complex.
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> What would have pleased bd mailer and his dumbed down cheerleaders in Alochona? the picture of a 4-yr old in front of a desktop computer playing violent video games? May be thats what the BNP thugs would publicize when they come to POWER with the message that the real 'Digital Bangladesh' is one where you abandon agriculture and devote yourself to money-laundering a la Tarek Zia and Coco using computerized cell phone or other gizmo.
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> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:24:37 +0600
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> Digital Bangladesh ? http://www.eprothomalo.com/index.php?opt=view&page=1&date=2011-08-02
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