Students of DU
They look in retrospect to the tumultuous past of the country and say with pride that the students of DU led from the front in all the movements. The other day one prominent professor of Dhaka University told a television journalist that the DU does not teach students to become cowards. I get confused as to what for students go to DU, to pursue higher studies or to wield sticks? Are they taught how to set vehicles on fire, vandalise shops and destroy public property? Even if the whole issue is taken in right perspective, what do we find is a very minor violation, a moment of slackness on the part of a soldier and his superior. The superior should have better advised him not to transgress.
DUTA has been looking for an opportunity since long to humiliate the govt. And what could be more convenient than to use the students, looking at their bellicose past. So the army must be blamed for not being able to assess the situation correctly. They should also be blamed for not acting promptly to quell the anger of the students. What is more pathetic is to watch that none of the army men had been able to develop a rapport with some of their volatile counterparts, even after living there for six months.
It is very interesting to see that the same students remain nonchalant to hear of corruption of unimaginable magnitude, by some of our great leaders. They were never found to have come forward to organise a forum or so, to say no to corruption or demand exemplary punishment. They are never united against the student leaders, who are born to remain students and keep on doing the tender business. Neither they say anything against those teachers, who despite being in the payroll of the university, live abroad for personal reasons, sometimes for years.
They are not even bothered to know that the 'The Oxford of the East' these days doesn't even appear in the list of five hundred universities from all over Asia.
So better watch out and if you are looking to take to the street in future, please shift your focus from the peripheral political issues, to more core issues.
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