Here and there
Our Traffic Police Farce: My last letter (DS 4 July) on Dhaka's traffic had concluded with the challenge that only when the controlling authorities found the will and resolve (now totally absent) to book everyone found guilty of breaking the traffic laws, would there be improvement. I am very happy to eat my words. It seems that there is at least one amongst our traffic cops with enough guts to file a complaint against an MP, stuck in a jam, for assaulting him in public!!!
Minister's Advice: Recently a full Minister publicly advised his party's student wing not to fight amongst themselves but to turn their energies on “them” (their political opponents). Press, media, civil society, public and even some party luminaries have roundly condemned his raving as coming from a diseased mind. So what is the result? In most democratic countries, the MP and Minister would have resigned in shame by now. But then, this is Bangladesh, where office-bearers come with big tubes of 'Super Glue” to stick themselves to their powerful chairs. After all would it not be a shame, if they were to quit before they could get their greasy fingers on their duty free Pajeros, Prados, Lexus, Humbers, BMWs?
World Cup hullaballooo! Now that the lights are off, the vuvuzellas silent, a billion bleary-eyed TV watchers returned to sanity, equal number of wives jointly sighing in relief, I can only say that the real hero of these games was undoubtedly Paul. No one else came away with a 100% record and the bidding for his future services has already started and reached Tk. 35 lakh.
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