We cannot let this go on
When we were sad at the revered filmmaker Tareque Masud's untimely death, we were taken aback to know that the government was not taking any effective step against the rampant violation of traffic rules on the roads. Our intelligentsia remarked that the streets would have undergone substantial changes if someone from a lawmaker's family had died in the accident instead of Tareque Masud. A few days later, another life was nipped in the bud. The only son of Awami League lawmaker Jahangir Kabir Nanak died in a terrible car crash. My father, right after he was told this news, said, "Things might change now. Someone from a lawmaker's family died." What kind of a country are we living in?
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