Life in Bangladesh
Golam Ashraf DOHS Baridhara, Dhaka
I deeply appreciate your publishing the article "Development Bangladeshi Style" written by Ms. Chieko Yasuda ( DS 17 October, 2004 ). I thank Ms. Yasuda for this article which depicts our present status and how things went wrong. For Bangladesh, village was the focal point for the development process! Civil-society and NGOs are presently complaining that Union Parishads (UP) have already become ineffective and very soon one crore people living in the capital will become a liability when their sources of incomes become restricted and limited. I am sorry to inform you that Bangladesh emerged with the legacy of economic exploitation for almost two hundred and fifty years. Most politicians, civil servants and military leaders in independent Bangladesh came from the families (usually large) where economic hardship was seen as "Shame and Hatred". That certainly influenced our politics and social life. A pattern has been set.
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