Wanton acts
Rafiqul Islam Rime, Agrabad, Chittagong
As I started for my workplace early in the morning the other day I, to my utter helplessness, came to learn that a transport strike by the owners was called for. I don't know the reasons or the demands nor do I feel inclined to know them. What bothered me along with the thousands on the road, most of them women working at distant places from the main town, was the utter helplessness that crippled the people. There are indeed quite good number of people in the society living on daily work and wage. Garment workers, working hard to earn a living are the worst victims of this sort of stagnancy.Educational institutions get closed with the curtain pulled down by the opportunists. Now transport strikes to cripple public life are there. It is indeed strange how some of us make the nation hostage because of our ignorance, indifference and sheer maneuvers. It is the ignorance on the part of the mass people that places the country to shame; the indifference of the people of privileges that make the mockery of the state and the inexplicable design by the people with Machiavellian maneuvers (as they think so) that take the nation back to the deep woods. Now the very pertinent question is that who are there beside us? Observations of the incidents across the nation by the people themselves over the years show the helplessness of this torn and sad country. It was liberated from the oppressors through a valiant freedom fight and its basic principles were the liberal secular platform, equality for all and the very spirits of democracy but unfortunately or otherwise all these basic principles are so badly violated by almost all who matter most in this regard. For a general people's action, mistakes or deliberate wrongs will not destabilize the balance in the national scale but those by a man of responsibility, power and trust do cause a huge stir. Vis-a-vis this line of reality, people at the helm of power must perform their duty with all sincerity, conviction and precision for the welfare of the nation. Politicians, social thinkers and the people of privileges have the same duty to the country. And any failure on the part of the people in question will severely pull the nation down -- hence none will find any respite here on the sacred soil of the land.
|
|
