Dhaka
Diary
Wrongs
to Right in Dhaka
RAB's
next project should be to shoot all the illegal kitchen market
traders using textile colour in fruits and using dead fowls
in restaurants. Without doubt, they will be blessed by the
city dwellers. Smoking in public places has been banned, a
praiseworthy decision taken by the government. However, people
are still smoking in public places without any fear. This
should be properly monitored and checked. Besides this, steps
should be taken to prohibit urinating on the road. This not
only pollutes the environment but makes the pavements unfit
for walking.
Zia
Hasan Mohammadpur, Dhaka
Footbridges
or Toilets?
As
I was coming back from class the other day, I was walking
over the footbridge at Asadgate on Mirpur Road. Upon walking
a distance, I was disgusted to see someone defecating on the
bridge right there. This happened at about 7:30 pm and was
getting darker every moment. A good number of people were
walking on the bridge at that time, and could do nothing but
just avoid the particular scene and go about their way. How
is it possible for a human being to act in such a shamelessway
in public? This is how the footbridges are actually being
used in Dhaka City. It would be far better to be humiliated
by the traffic police for not using the footbridges to cross
roads, rather than to be exposed to such disgusting behaviour.
Sohel
BUET, Dhaka
The
Missing Patty
One
day I ordered a burger and asked the woman at the counter
to fix it with tomatoes. The microwave timer beeped and my
burger was ready. She wrapped it up in a foil and handed it
over to me. It seems that a while later, the woman, upon heating
up another order for a burger in the microwave oven, found
the burger meat, which was supposed to be in my sandwich.
The next day when I went in again, she asked me how my sandwich
was. "Delicious as usual", I replied. When I got
to know that I had actually eaten a sandwich with only tomatoes
and no burger, and never realised it, I was much more embarrassed
than she was.
Thuihla
Mong University of Rajshahi
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