RACISM BREWING IN BAHRAINBahrainis are proud of their multi-million dollar F1 circuit and their shiny cities with clean roads and impressive buildings. But how do they treat those people who build those infrastructures and then sweep them clean? They are mostly Asian migrants (Bangladeshi, Indian, Pakistanis). Bahraini's depend on them as they are also their tailors, carpenters, mechanics, drivers and the shopkeepers, because they find these jobs as not suitable for them (with Petrodollar pride you can think whatever you want). Chana'd Bahraini,...
August 29, 2004
August 28, 2004
IF YOU HAVE THE WILL YOU HAVE THE WAY
A plan of the fanatics failed because of prompt action of police. A group called "Aamra Dhakabashi" (We the Dhakaites) planned to capture the complex of the Ahmadya sect of muslim in their bid to declare them non-muslim.
A Dhaka court sent Aamra Dhakabashi President Shamsul Huq, Secretary General Jamal Nasser Chowdhury and key leaders Abdul Kader and Sharafat Ali to jail yesterday. Police drove a group of bigots away, who tried to gather at Islambagh Jam-e-Mosque, Chawkbazar Shahi Mosque and Boro Katara Madrasa...
August 26, 2004
IN WHICH DIRECTION OUR POLITICS IS GOING?
Bangladesh is being crippled by Hartal (general strike) as another one has been called on the next Saturday.
As Niraj puts it: After the bomb attack, the Awami League could of taken the moral high ground, but instead they choose hartal, squandering their one and only chance to lord it over the BNP.
That is also the general view of the people of Bangladesh who does not have a political affiliation. Of course hardliners of different political parties would have different views. But the fact is that despite...
August 25, 2004
THE THREAT AGAINST DEMOCRACY CONTINUES
After 2 days of the incident, a group has claimed responsibility for the grenade attack on Awami League (AL) rally and issued a fresh threat to assassinate Leader of the Opposition and AL President Sheikh Hasina.
Hikmatul Zihad, by-name an Islami militant organisation (nobody has any information on them yet) has sent a email to the Bengaly Daily "Prothom Alo" from the ID hikmatulzihad@yahoo.com.
The message...
August 24, 2004
QUOTES OF THE DAY
* Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."
- Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
* Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
- Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
* Fear always springs from ignorance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
* Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious...
August 23, 2004
THE SCREAM IS STOLENThe norwegian painter Edvard Munch's insight into his masterpiece:"I was out walking with two friends - the sun began to set - suddenly the sky turned blood-red - I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on a fence - there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city - my friends walked on, and there I still stood, trembling with fear - and I sensed an endless scream passing through nature." The work expresses...
LIVING IN PANICMany are wondering about the types and origins of the grenades used in the attack on Sheikh Hasina and the AL rally on 21st of August, 2004. The grenades are of ARGES brand, which is patented by an Austrian company "Armaturen Gesellschaft m.b.H." and weighs over one kilogram containing around 36,000 splinters. These detonate within four seconds after removing the clip and thus cannot be thrown outside a radius of 30 yards of the target....
August 22, 2004
SHOCK & LOATH
Yesterday evening panic spread in Dhaka city as reports of bombing in Awami League rally was coming. There were reports of death and widespread violence. There were fewer vehicles in the street. I was out with my wife waiting in her doctor's chamber. The panic heightened when the doctor informed that she will not be coming because of violence in the street. We hurried home and saw a bit of panicky situation in the street, where...
August 21, 2004
RESIST THEM(Picture Courtesy the Daily Star)The country has been recuperating from the blow of the recent devastating flood. Millions of people have lost all their private properties and infra-structures. The government have so far been successful, with the help of donation of the common citizens and international sources in keeping these people out of misery. More efforts are needed to help these people to be on their feet again.But what are these...
KNOW YOUR ENEMY
The Islami fanatics of Bangladesh show their true colors again. They have been using the religion Islam to provoke the sentiments of the peace loving Bengalis, they majority of whom is good practicing Muslims. Recently a Bengali daily newspaper "The Prothom Alo" has published a series of reports about some Madrasas in remote corners of the country which has been giving training to extremists. The fundamentalists' response was to burn copies of the Prothom Alo and ransacking its billboards in the capital for publishing the stories....
August 17, 2004
And Everything Will Be in the Custody of the Damned
The above is a title of a poem by Humayun Azad, in which he listed the aspects of his world that he saw as being threatened by the destructive, the evil, the ruinous, the terrible. Some of his images were simple: black clouds, a red sari, the white moon—these too would disappear, be swallowed up by those who fear beauty.
Azad's death has been confirmed as from natural causes (Please refer to my previous post). Probably Azad was living in a wrong time. As he says in one of his poem:
I was living...
August 15, 2004
QUOTES OF THE DAY
* A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
- Billy Graham 1918-, American Evangelist
* Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
- Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
* We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964...
THE LEADER
The nation mournes today the 29th death anniversary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder father of Bangladesh and his family members, who were brutally assassinated in an army coup. The strike for dispute over holiday certainly mars the solemn occasion this year as I think it is a bad move by the Awami League. But sad to say that many show no respect for"The leader and the man" because of his political ideals and it results...
August 13, 2004
IN REMEBRANCE OF DR. HUMAYUN AZAD (1947-2004)
I was shocked to read the news of the mysterious death of Professor Humayun Azad, a renowned writer of Bangladesh and a professor of Dhaka University. He was attacked last February by some fundamentalist quarters. The knife attack left the professor with serious head and neck wounds but he survived due to the best possible treatment in home and abroad. He had recently went to Germany because of insecurity...
August 10, 2004
Relief efforts
The flood water is receding and the affected people are slowly returning to their home. They are being exposed to the reality that there is nothing left as their capital: no home, no infrastructure, no crops, no food. So they will have to depend upon aid for quite sometime. In the meantime they will have to tackle the threat of the water-borne diseases. The Bangladesh government is working with aid agencies and non-governmental organizations to distribute relief although they have struggled to reach those in far-flung districts. The source of the...
August 09, 2004
HELP BANGLADESHI FLOOD VICTIMS
Click the above picture for a list of options to contribute to Bangladeshi flood victims. This is a fine effort by the people associated with the web-portal Bangladesh-America.com. Those who find that the account transfer charge is a bit on the higher side can use pay-pal and/or other options.
Many thanks to all those who contributed and remember "Little drops make an ocean".
via: Qe...
NOBO BANGLA - A HORRIBLE PROJECT
The news has not widely spread yet but there is venture to simplify the writing of Bangla language. Nobo Bangla is being promoted by systech Digital and I believe it is a brainchild of Mr. Shikder Monowar Murshed of linguistic department of the Dhaka University. In this effort they have decreased Bangla vowels & consonants to 39 only and completely eradicating the use of connected words. They claim that it can be easily applied in computer based applications and will be convenient for the users.
But from the...
August 08, 2004
BANGLADESH - IN THE EYES OF A BEHOLDER
Damien Brosnan is an AYAD (Australian youth ambassador for development) assigned in Dhaka for about an year. AYAD, an initiative of Australian government (AusAID) places skilled young Australian volunteers, aged 18-30, on short-term assignments in developing countries throughout Asia and the Pacific. Damien maintains his well informative website "Damo in Dhaka", which contains his experiences in Dhaka (including the other AYADs) supported with loads of pictures and humorous descriptions. You would be amazed...
August 07, 2004
ALLAH MADE ME FUNNY
"Just as Muslims feel that Islam is greatly misunderstood in America so too America is greatly misunderstood in the Muslim world." - says Azhar Usman, a Muslim American comedian who is performing the above titled comedy show in US to counter the negative stereotypes and attitudes about Muslims and Arabs. The comedy is about making fun of themselves, their communities and the prejudices they face. -reports BBC.
This show is aiming to demonstrate that the actions of a handful of extremists acting in the name of Islam have nothing...
JUSTICE DELAYED..JUSTICE DENIEDSylhet has been rocked with yet another twin blasts at two cinemas day before yesterday. A boy was killed and 15 other people injured in the explosions. The police showed arrested three people injured as possible suspects. But I doubt whether this investigation will reach a dead-end and the criminals will never face any trial.Fourteen bomb explosions in Sylhet region since 1997 have killed 23 people and injured many more, but the attackers are doing it again and again as the police and other law enforcement agencies...
PROOF KILLED IN ENCOUNTER
You have seen it in the Hollywood & Bollywood movies. When the police wants to kill one detainee, they let him/her escape and shoot from behind.
The same thing happened yesterday in Savar. The notorious "Little" Hannan, one of the top 23 criminals on police list, was killed early hours Friday, the seventh day of his remand by anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), allegedly in crossfire between a gang and a Rab team in Savar(near Dhaka) - reports the Daily Star.
However no such incident of gunfight or any casualty...
August 03, 2004
DONATIONS FOR THE BANGLADESH FLOOD VICTIMS
HSBC and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of Bangladesh (IFRC) have joined hands together to collect funds for the flood affected people of Bangladesh.
The details of the account no. & Swift code can be found here.
Please extend your hands for the flood affected people and your small contribution will mean them a l...
ELSEWHERE IN BLOGOSPHERE
* "Gaping void" 's tip on " How to be creative".
* Jeff Jarvis thinks that the terror threat is very real, as is the fear, as is the impact on lives of the Americans.
* Alex at Worldchanging discusses John Kerry's energy plan "An energy independent America" and thinks it is an welcome contrast from the Bush Administrations focus on drilling more oil. In early August, Kerry will unveil an energy plan that he says can break America's addiction to foreign oil, revitalize the U.S. auto industry, help farmers and coal miners,...
August 02, 2004
TACKLING FLOOD
The flood situation in Bangladesh is improving as the sun is shining and the rainfall is less. After the full moon (blue moon) effect the sea level should fall letting the river water levels to recede below the danger limit.
Now the real challenge lies in keeping the flood effected out of health hazards/ epidemics and rehabilitating them. Nearly 5,000 medical teams have spread out across Bangladesh, many in boats, to try to contain diseases as flood waters continued to recede. There have been numerous efforts all over the country...
BANGLADESH'S TEST STATUS
In the recently concluded Asia Cup the performance of Bangladesh cricket team was really dismal. It seems that the burden of test status is becoming too heavy for the cricketers. This is also hampering Bangladesh's image as a nation. They are no longer treated as the cricketbabes as 3-4 years have gone. Everybody is expecting them to show a consistent competitative standard. The battlefield is cruel and do not cater for any emotion or soft corner.
As for the tournament performance, the coach Dav Whatmore should come under...
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