I was a bit confused about the actual spelling of the word curfew. Now I know it's curfew, not carfew. Actually I haven't really felt the need to use this word in my whole life, because there has not been too many curfews in the places I lived and visited. Enough said, despite of all the "beating up of students" and "sufferings of the poor masses", the only feeling I have about the current state of the nation is "annoyance". I am not a very selfish person, and I have all the sympathy for the people who are being mistreated, but this is also true that the crime of igniting private property and raising unrest in a very peaceful, political activity free environment was not desirable at all.
Yeah, I know this government is not letting other politicians to do politics and the freedom of speech and blah blah blah is being hampered; some would even go to such heights as to say that Bangladesh is being ruled by the military. As of know, it's nothing more than a conspiracy theory. The government definitely has the support of the army, and the army probably is also influencing their decisions to some extent.
But the bottom line is "Are we worse off than how we used to be during the regime of Khaleda, Hasina, Ershad?"
I am up for freedom of speech and civil rights. But what point is there in rights if people are not educated enough to exercise their rights in a proper way? Do you call demolishing 3rd party insured cars a right? God knows how I'd feel if someone broke our family car which we bought few months ago with a major portion of my life time savings!
By the way, 3rd party insurance means if someone is injured by my car, that someone will get something from the insurance company. But if something happens to my car, I get nothing. So this is just an eyewash kind of insurance policy that helps the car owners to abide by with the government regulations.
It was just a day ago; that fateful day, when I was sitting in front of my laptop at office and looking forward to a meeting in less than 15 minutes, which was supposed to solve some issues and rekindle old proceedings. In order to hasten the clock, I went one floor down to chit chat with my colleagues in the technical department. Suddenly a call comes from another colleague. I came to know that the director has asked everyone to evacuate office as a curfew was to be imposed shortly. Went out, took a rickshaw and came home. Cost me 45 taka for a rickshaw ride, which was not that much. The usual fare is TK 30.
Anyway, tomorrow's a Friday, and now it's 22:07. It's a weekend and I am still not sure whether I will be able to go out of home or not. This totally sucks. Throughout the week I look forward to the weekends for channeling out the evil corporate aura. Looks like this week the aura will stick with me.
Bangladesh is such a beautiful country, the people are/were so brave, we have so much energy and enthusiasm and intelligence--why does it have to be like this?
Why do we love axing our own feet so much? Sigh, this is perhaps a question that I'll have to ponder over for a long, long time.
Yeah, I know this government is not letting other politicians to do politics and the freedom of speech and blah blah blah is being hampered; some would even go to such heights as to say that Bangladesh is being ruled by the military. As of know, it's nothing more than a conspiracy theory. The government definitely has the support of the army, and the army probably is also influencing their decisions to some extent.
But the bottom line is "Are we worse off than how we used to be during the regime of Khaleda, Hasina, Ershad?"
I am up for freedom of speech and civil rights. But what point is there in rights if people are not educated enough to exercise their rights in a proper way? Do you call demolishing 3rd party insured cars a right? God knows how I'd feel if someone broke our family car which we bought few months ago with a major portion of my life time savings!
By the way, 3rd party insurance means if someone is injured by my car, that someone will get something from the insurance company. But if something happens to my car, I get nothing. So this is just an eyewash kind of insurance policy that helps the car owners to abide by with the government regulations.
It was just a day ago; that fateful day, when I was sitting in front of my laptop at office and looking forward to a meeting in less than 15 minutes, which was supposed to solve some issues and rekindle old proceedings. In order to hasten the clock, I went one floor down to chit chat with my colleagues in the technical department. Suddenly a call comes from another colleague. I came to know that the director has asked everyone to evacuate office as a curfew was to be imposed shortly. Went out, took a rickshaw and came home. Cost me 45 taka for a rickshaw ride, which was not that much. The usual fare is TK 30.
Anyway, tomorrow's a Friday, and now it's 22:07. It's a weekend and I am still not sure whether I will be able to go out of home or not. This totally sucks. Throughout the week I look forward to the weekends for channeling out the evil corporate aura. Looks like this week the aura will stick with me.
Bangladesh is such a beautiful country, the people are/were so brave, we have so much energy and enthusiasm and intelligence--why does it have to be like this?
Why do we love axing our own feet so much? Sigh, this is perhaps a question that I'll have to ponder over for a long, long time.
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