For a peaceful planet

Shurid, English Department, Dhaka College
To my sheer ecstasy, I chanced to read some long-missing blissful words titled 'prayer for peace' written by Tapan Kumar Shil published in The Daily Star on January 23. With our beloved planet long-starved of peace, security and hope, being perpetually bedevilled with man-manufactured miseries, these words echo the yearnings of all peace-loving people. Inconsolably enough, our afflictions are not effected by the aliens. Thus the planet named 'Earth' will remain strife-stricken in perpetuity, eventually forcing hopeless 'Humanity' to sob away into evanescence? And undeniably, we owe a debt of gratitude to the poet for producing and to my beloved DS for disseminating those soothing words.