BBC World and brothel in Mongla
While I was in the UK, my letters used to get published in your daily quite regularly.
Now I am in Hong Kong. I don't know if my place has made my letters less attractive. I believe my discussions and presentations are much realistic. Most of the times I discuss topics, which are most relevant to development of Bangladesh.
However, today I am going to ask a couple of important questions on an important but often neglected topic. It is important because we have been regularly facing natural calamities, which are blamed on 'Global Warming' or on 'Barrages on Natural Flows of Water of Major Rivers in a neighbouring country'.
Today, I happened to come across for a couple of minutes BBC's coverage of a brothel in Mongla. Whatever they have discussed, my question is, 'Don't we have anything better to present to the world?' and “Why in the first place we are maintaining brothels to please alien sailors or customers from within the country?”
Fortunately, in Bangladesh the profile of AIDS-related problems is still better than that of many countries. To respect and recognise the labour of hard working women, especially in the garments sector, we should not let any woman go into that track on the plea of poverty. To put it also in a different perspective, we should not allow men and women to put any woman into that track by exploiting her social situation or condition.
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