My papa's vision
Azreen Karim ,Baridhara DOHS, Dhaka
There was a time when society used to consider a girl child an economic burden and spending money to bring up a girl child as a perfect human being to face the hardcore challenges of the 20th century is almost rare even today in the social arena of our country. But my father proved it to be wrong which is the most lively truth of my life today. Both papa and I are the devoted children of the economic idealism and oppose the social backwardness leading to many injustices made towards the women community in our society. My papa has got two daughters and he brought them up in his own idealism. Being a father of daughters, he even had to face many hardcore social truths the society came up with. He was accompanied by the traditional circle of the so called friends, colleagues, relatives who were always against providing freedom and spending money in female education. But I saw my papa as a different reality. Although he came up from the so called conservative arena, he sacrificed his own happiness in preparing his two daughters as individual entities. This incident occurred when I was passing through my third year in my undergraduate programme in Economics at North South University. I came up from a mixed background of English and Bengali medium possessing academic excellence all through my academic career. I even hold an unbeaten record of achieving a CGPA of above 3.5 in all the semesters. When I was crossing my 78 credit hours, my papa suffered a severe business shock which put the entire family into a great uncertainty. Many people rebuked him for spending so much money for his two daughters' education. But nothing could dissuade him from his mission of attaching due importance to his daughters' education. Today I am an Award holder Graduate in Economics from the most reputed institution in our country. Three cheers for my Papa the Great.
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