Photo session
Syed Badrul Haque, Lalmatia, Dhaka
I am drawn to a four-column spread photograph published recently in your daily. It shows the power elites seated in chairs in the front row and the winners of the 'DCCI Business Award-2005' standing in the back row. I am, however, not persuaded enough to agree to photographs that give prominence to the power wilders at the expense of news judgment. It smacks of feudal mentality of the power elites irrespective of party affiliations in our professed democratic polity. The referenced photograph, I think, devalued the image of our community heroes by relegating them to the back row, although the photo session was, in all certitude, occasioned to visually record the achievements of the DCCI award winners. In that perspective, they deserved to be photographed in the front row. If done, this gesture on the part of the power elites would have earned for themselves handsome dividends in the esteem of the fellow compatriots, and its impact on our sliding social values too would have been salutary.It is time our political leaders focused on the need for meaningful social interaction before we embrace a democratic order vibrant with a human face.
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