Honorable Prime Minister Deshratna Sheikh Hasina, the daughter of democracy, has delivered education from house to house and advancing the country with a view to establishing with the goal of building an education-rich digital Bangladesh. And the main architect of building this education-rich digital Bangladesh are the students of different schools-colleges, madrasas and universities of Bangladesh including other educational institutions.
Today’s students communities will advance Bangladesh tomorrow. But with great regret it is to inform that most of the students have to stay in mess for education purpose and meet their own needs by the meager earning from tuition. Due to this epidemic, all the educational institutions of the country were closed and all the students staying in the mess had to go back to their respective homes. In this situation, it is extremely difficult and impossible for them to pay the rent of the mess.
So, Until the corona situation being abolished, attention is going to be persisting to the legal authority for removing mess rent.
Md. Sukhon
Ananda Mohan University
Mymsingh
representatives
Corona virus infection is on the rise worldwide. The overall situation in Bangladesh is getting worse day by day. As a result of general holidays, millions of people have become unemployed. For the poor and the unemployed, the government offers the opportunity to buy rice at low prices. But sadly, at the local level, some unscrupulous public representatives are embracing this govt. rice. In the meantime, law enforcement agencies have arrested several abductees. Instead of standing by the people during such a deep crisis of the country, they are also depriving them of their rights. This is a great shame for the nation. Therefore, severe punishment is expected of these dishonest public representatives.
Abu Faruk
Banarupa Para
Sadar, Bandarban
Tribute to Dr. Jamilur Reza Choudhury
National Professor and educationalist Dr. Jamilur Reza Choudhury has died suddenly in a massive heart attack at the age of 77 and returned to the Almighty Allah in the month of Ramadan. He was a golden son of the soil. He had a vast know-how and lot of contribution in this country’s many infrastructure planning and development. He was very sincere, polite, gentle, honest and proved himself how to love a country. We have to learn many things from him as a great patriot, he was a great passionate personality. He had a lot of followers and thousands of bright students in home and abroad. Every people respects him irrespective of political personalities and professional. He also honored everyone irrespective of age and professions. He was a man of commitment and devoted personality of the nation. He provided many things to the nation but received a very few instead of the contribution.
He was awarded Ekushey Padak by the government in the science and technology category in 2017 and also accoladed him National Professor in 2018. He was appointed Adviser in the Non-Party Caretaker Government in April, 1996. He had acted as consultant to a large number of national and international agencies and was a Member of Panel of Experts for the Bangabandhu (Jamuna) Bridge and also the International Panel of Experts for Padma Bridge. He was also involved in numerous socio-economic, volunteer and professional bodies in home and abroad.
He received numerous awards during his illustrious career. He was a real hero of the land and a golden son of the soil. We pay our rich tribute to his departure soul. May Allah bless him the best heaven during this holy month Ramzan.
Md. Zillur Rahaman
Satish Sarker Road,
Gandaria, Dhaka
May Day comes year after year. But it is really questionable how much the concerned workers actually enjoy the fact that this International Day is celebrated with the utmost solemnity by blowing out the lanterns of simple discussions, statements and expectations of history and significance. Appropriate working environment, discriminatory wages for male and female labor, retrenchment of workers at the convenience of the owner class, physical abuse, wage movement and accident victims, the image of inhuman life in a helpless state is still a reality in the country’s labor world.
Due to the failure and incompetence of the government and those concerned to stop child labor, innumerable children are being engaged in risky work day by day. To dishonest politicians, workers are still a powerful weapon for their personal gain. Despite the Prime Minister’s incentive of Rs 5,000 crore to cut the recession of the economy, which was hit by the unexpected Corona epidemic, some employers have laid off thousands of workers to reduce their so-called losses. Again, many workers are protesting on the streets demanding wages. But to prevent the spread of corona, millions of garment workers have risked their lives to make masks, gloves and personal protective equipment during the general holiday. But today they are deprived of rights!
So for whom is the great May Day celebrated? Is it just a normal holiday? There is no alternative to their labor to keep the country’s economy strong. Ensuring their due rights and dignity is an important responsibility of the government and all concerned. The great May Day will be successful only by fulfilling the rights of all workers, not by deceptive speeches.
Mohammad Faisal
146 D.T. Road
East Madarbari
Chattogram
freedom in India?
In the 2020 edition of its annual report, the US Commission International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), inter alia, observed that religious minorities were under increasing assault in India. India called the report ‘biased and tendentious’. But the truth is bitter.
Article 25-A of India’s Constitution provides for religious freedom. Not only Muslims but also Christians, dalits (downtrodden) and other minorities are persecuted communities.
There are six `minorities’, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists and Zoroastrians.
Dalits outcasts/downtrodden/untouchable): Even Muslims are practically subdivided into ajlaf, ashraf and arzal (various levels of superiority). A Hindu dalit is not per se a Hindu. He can’t enter a higher-caste temple, ride a bike or a horse, and wear casuals (instead of going barefooted). A dalit was murdered for daring to sit at a temple verandah. He can’t even eat in front of a Brahmin.
BR Ambedkar objected to dalit being called harijans (god’s kids) by MK Gandhi. In some Indian states harijans used to gift their beautiful girls to temples. When grown up they were a kind of divine prostitutes. Patna High Court acquitted 26 men, 16 of whom had been handed death, owing allegiance to the outlawed upper caste militia Ranveer Sena for killing 58 Dalits at Laxmanpur Bathe on December 1, 1997 (India today, October 9, 2013). Demolition of Babri mosque was validated. Khushwant Singh, in his article 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots: Victory to the Mob, (Outlook India, August 22, 2005) Khushwant Singh says The Nanavati report to investigate post-Indira Gandhi-assassination sikhs’ `massacre of is utter garbage’.
Many Jain Temples were converted into Hindu Temples by Hindus. Many Jains were converted into Hindus at the time Adi Shankaracharya, Sambandar, Basaveshwara in South India. Bhutala Pandya killed Thousands of Jaina Munis in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Thousands of Buddhists converted to Christianity at mass conversion rallies.
Persecution of Muslims, including preachers (tableeghi) is a recent event. Since March 28, tweets with the hashtag #CoronaJihad appeared over 300,000 times and were potentially seen by 165 million people on Twitter.
On the heels of the propaganda came religious pogroms conducted by Hindu nationalists leaving 36 Muslims dead, their houses and shops burnt, including some mosques where they took refuge, in Delhi. A serial killer Dara Singh murdered Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two minor sons.
Dalits carry stigma of their low castes even if they migrate to other countries. They are identified by their surnames Mishra, Pandey, Bharadwaj, Deshmukh, Deshpande, Kulkarni, Desai, Patil, Jothi, Kaul, Trivedi, Chaturvedi, Agnihotri, Mukherjee, Chatterjee, Acharya, Goswami, Desai, Bhat, Rao, Hegde, Sharma, Shastri, Tiwari, Shukla, Namboothiri, Iyer, Iyengar and what not.
Religious persecution caricatures India’s constitution. Not only Muslims but also other minorities have a miserable plight. Recently, India arrested its chairman of minorities’ commission, as also Dr. Ambedkar’s grandson-in- law Anand Teltumbde (National Herald April 14, 2020) .
Amjed Jaaved
Rawalpindi Cantt.
Pakistan
