Like many others, a girl was eagerly waiting to catch the train, a student transport. A motherly dog who gave birth of three puppies was searching for food. She pulled out a bunch of loafs. The dog could understand that it got to have food. So, it pulled her head up to the girl. She gave the hungry dog loafs one after another. The dog began to follow her thinking she might give it to more. Actually, she put the plastic packet of the loaf into a nearby trash bin. She returned her place, and a boy there asked her name and education, and learnt that she is Samiha Islam, has been undergraduating in Sociology at the University of Chittagong. The boy wanted to know her because of the two things that fascinated him were - her kindness to the hungry animal and her careness to the environment. (17 Nov, 2023)
Green campus. Full of ripened paddy fields. Cows were living on grass. Birds were sweet-sounding.
Harsh Realization
Skip those toxic human minds. This will ensure us a better life experience both for now and future living existence, won’t they?
First, I would say, a warrior is not a soldier. A warrior is one who has to tolerate any unexpected situation and listen to the great warriors and must not disrespect them, and even though it’s not a good sign of a genuine warrior stepping back to confront those who are ready to fight against him and showing them any sympathy or compassion in term of the fight for rightness ultimately brings down his personification and moreover his defeat in the battleground spreads defamation all across the world.
I know that Adolf Hitler, an Austrian born German politician and the leader of the Nazi party then, went into his underground bunker on 30 April 1945 to commit to suicide of course, with his wife when the then Soviet troops entered the heart of Berlin and most widely known that he had shot himself and the later her wife, Eva Braun died with him also but the Russian military commandant spoke that he had flown away from his berlin hole and was living in somewhere Europe.
So, whatever I want to point-blank that a real warrior must not follow as like as Adolf did.
Thursday, 16 Nov. 2023
A busy street, the opposite of Chittagong Railway Station in Chattogram. I was hurrying to go my destination. I saw an older man sitting with two children in a sidewalk, feeding the children lunch. And do you know what he fed them with? Just rice, lentils (daal) and meshed potatoes. Believe me this had stopped me to see look back. This sight forced me to look back not once but twice, and also saw that the elderly malnourished man was not only feeding the children but also eating the same food. No more surprise when a huge volume of money from the nation walks by legally and illegally, and the government keeps silence!
Either I control the uses of social media or these control me. I was tonight using one of the popular social media, Facebook. Of course, I had yesterday night planned that on the next day I would use it for 20 minutes. Facebook notified me as well after when I had crossed 20 minutes but ignoring that I continued scrolling down on and on. Suddenly, after uses of extra 30 minutes, I realized that oh my goodness, I had already forgot that I had left another task unfinished. So finally, I jumped into my task and one thing came to my conclusion was that there’s something beyond our thought and imagination is that controlling us.
B'desh Economy and Reality
A very narrower analysis
Once the people of this nation would feel proud of their country, Bangladesh! But now?
One morning, I went to a small food stall nearby a hall, in the University of Chittagong (CU), just for breakfast. I was having my food like Chhana (black chickpeas), Singara (meshed potato snake), and Samucha. Many other students were also having their snakes too. After a moment, a CU student asked the food-service owner if he could have some snakes but no money he could pay. The owner offered him some food. Observing the whole affair, I couldn’t but think of the current economic condition. Very wonderful when it has to witness that the state shows the reserve of billions of dollars but people like him has to ask food without money.
B'desh Economy and Reality
A very narrower analysis
A mother was asked why she is doing that. “What would you do if your kids cried for rice?” answered the mother. That means being unable to meet the basic sustenance needs, more or less 500 hundred females are selling them to customers.
Ahead of Ramadan, the USA, the biggest humanitarian aid supporter has slashed little of its donations for the Rohingya refugees. Apart from the US’s donation cut, the United Nation has decisioned to shrink food aid for the Rohingya. Reversely, the World Food Programme (WFP) has urgently appealed for a grant of USD 125 million to make the food supply stable.
Shocking to mention, there are 14 armed groups including ARSA who operate the camp _ Bhasan Char and Kutupalong. There’s evidence that the armed groups allure the refugee girls to sell their virginity, and dream them of having a bright future. At times, they’re forced to serve clients, even taking them away outside of the camps. Reported by Prothom Alo, Bangladesh’s most circulated Bangla Newspaper.
Another concern for Bangladesh, every day more than 95 children are born in the refugee camps, and the babies are all but malnourished. So, the birth rate continues to rise, and the population by 2025 will be expected to reach 1.2–1.3 million. Can Bangladesh be able to load this extra pressure as it’s going already with 170 million?
The refugees confined in the camps have fled over the fence to different countries, i.e., Malaysia, Thailand, and some of the countries of the Europe. Only in 2022, 35 hundred refugees by 39 boats crossed Bangladesh on the Andaman Sea, and the Bay of Bengal, reports UNCHR.
Currently, Bangladesh has a forex reserve crisis. To mitigate the crisis, she has been receiving USD 4.7 dollars from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). People are here facing acute problems to have jobs, manage food, and pay monthly house rent. The market mechanism works in Bangladesh. Fuel and cooking oil rise up in the name of excuses. Government plays somewhat of a role of an inactive audience. Along with it, Bangladesh has faced two Global economic shocks but she is still standing holding with a good economic figure. Praiseworthy!
Feb. 23, 2024
First, I would say, a warrior is not a soldier. A warrior is one who has to tolerate any unexpected situation and listen to the great warriors and must not disrespect them, and even though it’s not a good sign of a genuine warrior stepping back to confront those who are ready to fight against him, and displaying any sympathy or compassion in term of the fight for righteousness ultimately brings down his personification and moreover his defeat in the battleground spreads defamation all across the world.
An illustrative example is that of Adolf Hitler, an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party during his time. In history, it is well-documented that on April 30, 1945, Hitler, along with his wife, tragically ended their own lives in an underground bunker, as Soviet troops advanced into the heart of Berlin. The official account states that he took his own life. However, there have been speculations and rumors, even from the Russian military commandant, suggesting that he might have fled Berlin and sought refuge elsewhere in Europe. Nevertheless, the point I wish to speak point-blank is that a true warrior should not leave not kill himself like Adolf Hitler.
How war comes…the broader they are, the greater the war is. Disagreement from any words births discontent, the discontent creates conflict, the conflict turns into violence and ultimately the violence, if it’s not resolved quickly, forms a war; and the dimension of the war depends on the factors or issues, the broader they are, the greater the war is.
Green campus. Full of ripened paddy fields. Cows were living on grass. Birds were sweet-sounding. Mind-pleasing sweet air was blowing onto my body. I felt ecstatic enjoying nature. Like the other days, sitting on the soft-green grass nearby my campus rail tracks, I was reading something interesting. Suddenly a farmer from his house, it' was a medium-little distance, grabbed my attention sounding, "Unkel, bhat khaiso?, na khele amar eikhene chole aso."-meaning to that 'my brother of a son, have you taken your mid-day meal?, if not done so, let's come to my house.'.
To his kind welcoming, I nodded my head from left to right and vice versa, thanked him my humble gratitude holding my hands stick together.
Jul 1, 2021 at the University of Chittagong, on the way to Shuttle Train