Abuse of social media
The number of Facebook, YouTube and Twitter users is increasing at an alarming rate these days. Whatever wishes, whoever writes his opinion in an instant whether it has an anti-religious, anti-humanitarian, or negative impact on the social context is out of the question. The ghost of cheap popularity has haunted most of the users. However, in this case, the young society is ahead. They don’t stop commenting like that, they are also trying to gain popularity with various video contents.
There is nothing like learning or positive impact on society in these promoted videos, but they are obsessed with various obscenities. The video is being released at the moment by holding various body postures through communication. These poor young people are walking towards darkness day by day.
So, family should explain to the child from the beginning about the positive and negative aspects of using social media. The main responsibility of the child is to restrain his own family in these matters.
Redwan Mahmud
Dhaka
Unfair privilege
The saying, ‘Baro mashe tero parbon’, aptly conveys the abundance of rituals and festivities in the Bengali calendar. Unfortunately, several of these arcane rituals are deeply rooted in misogyny. One such tradition is jamai shashti – on this day, usually in the month of June, the son-in-law goes to his wife’s paternal home and is treated to a royal platter by his mother-in-law and is pampered by other in-laws. With jamai shashti being declared a public holiday in the state, the privileges of jamais seem to have no bounds. On the other hand, there is not a single such day devoted to the daughter-in-law or even the daughter in the Bengali calendar. Since Bengalis only need an excuse to celebrate, surely they will not mind adding bouma shashti to the calendar.
Purbasha Dhali
Calcutta
