Who to blame for these disasters - our poverty, poor education, the country itself, the political body or the global situation? But certain answers are there to these questions. I am trying to give a short note.

We as a nation have a lot to take pride in. We had our great language movement, the movement for self-rule, the long struggle for rights, the

insightful and charismatic leadership and the independence at last.

We will never know what is happening around us or what might happen in future, if we are deep in sleep. Things always turn heavier and greater, either good or bad, and it is also generally accepted that no mind lies idle ever. As our so-called political leaders are guiding us through a dark and uneven path towards hell, so do the anti-social elements in making there mischievous grips tighter. Our elite class, in power now or next, is busy bagging their bounties, flirting with the popular needs, crises and demands, and unleashing their claws and teeth on the ignorant, ill-educated, impoverished and helpless sections.

Can we blame, in true sense, these victims sacrificing themselves as suicidal bombers alone? Our leaders must take responsibility for them, because they are the products of their own laziness, dizziness, ignorance, plot, double game, jumble policies and what not.

Our leaders and guides have so far forgotten about the ideals and morals of their own, let alone their principles to do good and commitment to the people and country. Ideals and morals run downward. If they become corrupt and turn themselves violent to satisfy their vested interests, what will be there for the common people? In all respects ranging from economy to politics, education to governance, rights to laws, a very bleak scenario is apprehended. The laymen cannot be blamed for their ignorance, weakness and poverty alone; the rulers must share the failure.

Can the rulers answer the questions - why the common people sill seek justice when they obviously know that justice is on the side of the moneyed, why the poor people will send their children to school when they don't have enough food or cloths or when they know for sure they cannot go farther with memorising-vomiting game in the name of education, why the parents will not bribe the high-ups for their sons' or daughters' social security when the good-reasoned bosses would love to take that, why the politicians use the young people against each other in the political arena? Letting alone the complex political and economic questions, there are many more untouched simple questions to be addressed. The answers are expected only from the rational rulers, not from the ignorant, power-greedy, lackadaisical, immoral, ill motivated and hypocritical people.

We are the common people bitten bitterly by our conscience arising out of our observation of insincerity, inability, deceitfulness, lack of transparency and unwillingness to do good on the part of the ruling or waiting-to-rule classes.