Power of words
Celebrated American actor and comedian Robin Williams (Robin McLaurin Williams), who died on August 11, 2014, has left a message to us: “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
Good words and ideas definitely have the capability to bring about positive changes in the world. What we need is to develop a culture of patiently listening to others’ good words in the form of ideas and suggestions and implement those ideas for the greater good.
Divided you fall
The social welfare minister recently made some abusive remarks about journalists. It is sincerely hoped that people holding honourable position in society will not make any derogatory remarks undermining or insulting a person or a community.
Meanwhile, I was a little disappointed to read in some newspapers that the leaders of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists and Dhaka Union of Journalists demanded withdrawal of his abusive remarks. My question is, why a faction? Is it not an issue of protest for the entire journalist community? None should forget – divided you fall.
Unfortunate but true, one of the reasons for our backwardness in establishing a powerful institution of democracy is our professional division, due to political narrowness.
Professor M Zahidul Haque
SAU, Dhaka
