The state of our society
Md Asadullah Khan draws the attention of the political regime to the article on the state of our society, appearing in The Daily Star of 25/9/10. The political pundits never broach these hot topics in their mike appearances, and the government is busy hunting for mega projects, while the moral foundations are cracking up!
It is a tough test for public leadership. The only tool used today (in Dhaka) is to live in the past, chanting names, while the young society is degenerating at an alarming rate, morally and ethically. The rot starts from the top, using the young generation for ulterior purposes. There is no continuity of discipline, and the established institutions have broken down. Unlike newly established capitals like Islamabad and Dhaka, New Delhi has the advantage of not starting from zero.
Today, the modern pace of life is much faster, eschewing tolerance and patience. The LDCs are very sensitive to capitalistic living, based on over-spending. The slum areas in the big cities point out to the heavy migration from the rural to the urban areas. The tendency is misapplied in fertile and green Bangladesh, situated in a delta region. The contribution of the farmers is not officially and socially noticed; only their marginal living conditions are spotlighted in the media.
'Over-population' is a man-made term ignoring the wisdom of Mother Nature. Erosion of riverbanks is a natural, powerful phenomenon, witnessed by generations in a rural family; yet we complain over too much water, and too little water. The fertility rate is automatically lower in the mountainous and desert areas. The gift of the gab of the Bengalis is due to the average higher density of population per sq km. The top leaders have to set examples.
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