Scarcity of English newspapers
Peerzada Syed Rofiqul Hussain, Rampura, Dhaka
Nowadays everything is undergoing change with the advancement of science and technology. In Bangladesh our young friends seem to prefer constantly watching different channels of television from where they never learn anything that could be helpful in future life. Thus our future generations are going to be deprived of proper education to cope with the present challenges of the age of advancement.They have forgotten to have the habit of reading English newspapers and journals from where they can collect many important features and writings of many learned and distinguished persons and thus they may improve their general knowledge of the world affairs. In this respect, I should ask the learned teachers and policymakers of our education sector to kindly think of the dire need of the hour. Nowadays we do find an acute shortage of good English teachers from school to university level. University or college teachers are always found engaged in more than 3/4 places as part time teacher and thus all are running for money. It is really amazing to note here that recently I have shifted my house from Mohakhali to Rampura Bonasree and since then I could not get English papers regularly from the hawkers as there is no paper corner in this area. I had the habit of writing columns and letters to different English dailies and I used read the leading English newspapers. But the students to day don't appear to be interested in any such activity. Lastly, I would extend my humble request to the young learners to read the English newspapers and journals and to develop the habit of writing.
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