Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 5 Num 131 Mon. October 04, 2004       Letters to Editor Prejudice (brain drain) Suchitra Sufia, M. Shahi, M. Chaud, On e-mail We would like to express our views on two letters that were published on the letter page. Both the letters are based on one-sided views and prejudice. On September 24, 2004, Nayeem Mano (USA) wrote about OM Ohidul Alam (Sept. 6, 2004), and his views on the migrant issue. Nayeem Mano mentioned some very important points that most people live very difficult lives in Bangladesh because of a handful of greedy rich people. We would like to add that nowadays people travel all over the world and there is a global or international culture. Just because people travel or live abroad does not necessarily mean that they are greedy. In fact, it happens to be the other way around. Since the 1980s, the people of Bangladesh have been travelling abroad. Moreover, we saw that the talented people were victims of manipulation by a handful of teachers at Dhaka University. There were professors such as Kabir Chowdhury, Prof. Razzak, Razia Khan Amin and many others who were concerned about education. But nowadays we see some Dhaka University teachers teaching at private universities. People think that the Pakistanis tried to destroy the Bangladeshi intellectuals, just like the Nazis treated the German Jews. But after Bangladesh became independent, the pseudo-intellectuals who wanted power and money would not allow the talented Bangladeshis to fulfil their goals. Therefore, they all went abroad as they did not have a place in this society.