Money in bags & pillows!
Rafiqul Islam Rime, Lecturer in English, Premier University, Chittagong
The bizarre that might surpass Reply's Believe it or Not stories has been unfolding its multifaceted ugliness one after another in this land lately. There had been posh cars, expensive and rare pets of different kinds and many more in the possession of the corrupt politicians that had been chased by this government. And now you notice, with all sense of wonder and angst, how a high forest official went beyond sense/consciousness when the joint forces arrested him the other day. The person lost his sense for the fact that he knew well, when he was spotted with all his money in cash that mounted miraculously to a staggering one crore taka hidden in pillows, vaults and other places at his own home, that he was going to lose his money-mountain! It was a bizarre spectacle on the TV screen, joint forces officials were searching & collecting the cashes from pillows, vaults and other crevices; the owner was fainting --- trust me, I've never seen such a scene in my life; I bet, very few had the luck or bad luck to witness such an awesome event --- truth is indeed stranger than fictionI reckon!Finally, this unique story of some high forest official does point out, very vividly indeed, the fact that the rot/evil has actually crept deep into the individuals of the society; and it also manifests the fact that the government has to be cruel only to be kind --- there is no other path left if we mean business.
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