The
Water Problems
During
this rainy season, one of the most common problems
that the city dwellers face is overflowing water from
the sewers. The government is not doing anything to
clear up the old drainage systems. So where will all
the rain water go? Another problem is that whenever
the City Corporation sends workers to take care of
the clogged drains, they end up pumping the wastewater
onto the roads. This, obviously, is not a solution,
but an addition to the persisting problem. The city
commissioner should take proper care of the sewerage
systems because we can see what's happening on the
outside but what happens underground is something
that is totally uncertain.
Kazi Bari
Kamlapur
Thanks
Mahfuz Anam
I
would like to thank the Editor Mahfuz Anam for his
write up on our songs and music on August 1 on SWM.
Now-a-days, our indigenous culture is becoming more
and more diluted via satellite television. Foreign
cultures are invading our own. A few months ago, a
“Bangla Utshab” was held at our college campus, but
what surprised me was that all the shops were playing
Hindi and English song titles. A line from the excerpt
that I really liked was, “We must hear and enjoy music
from all over the world but at the same time promote
our own.” We shouldn't forget turn our back to our
indigenous resources, rather, we must make effort
in improving it.
Md.
Abdullah Imran
Kushtia Govt. University College
Unnecessarily
Disrespectful
I
enjoy reading your magazine immensely, in fact I must
have SWM in my hand on Friday morning with my bed
tea. As I was reading your August 1 issue I came across
this column 'This much I know' written by an old acquaintance,
Saqi Rahman. Out of sheer pleasure I started to read
her piece but unfortunately I was utterly disgusted
with her style of writing, she was not only disrespectful
of her long dead neighbours but also very odd in describing
her 'grandparent, uncle or widowed aunt thrown in
her family'.
In fact I am one of the eighteen children of that
'man with a big household' (a then minister and an
advocate). She wrote that he married after the death
of his first wife so that there would be a woman in
the house looking after the man's already nine children.
And the way she described my mother, ' she too produced
another nine, gave up early trying to distinguish
between her children and the step children and lived
happily in her own room ignoring the lot of them'
was so discourteous and fabricated that I found it
in poor taste. In fact I failed to find the link between
her write-up recycling of old books among siblings
and her description of her neighbours, and filling
up of Gulshan lake or lending money to bank defaulters.
Would someone kindly tell her that a perfect feature
is like a circle in the format, you come back to what
you start with, and in this case I would really like
to know what her friends among the choice of eighteen
did with their books?
Naseem
Iqbal Ali
Gulshan
The
City of Muggers
Dhaka
city will soon be called the 'city of muggers' because
the number of muggings that are taking place day in
and day out is steadily rising. On August 6th, I was
on my way back to my hall from place where I give
tuition. As I was getting down from the bus, a mugger
got hold of me. He took away my watch and told me
that he was one of the 'top men' in the area. He soon
left, with my belongings, leaving me petrified. I
could not believe my own voice because I was repeatedly
thanking him for not injuring or stabbing me. I feel
that we are dolls in their hands. Will this ever stop?
Md. Omar Faruk
Department of Chemistry
D.U.