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HARASSMENT EVERYWHERE

Photo: Kazi Tahsin Agaz Apurbo

The other day, my friends and I were hanging out at a food court. We met after a long time and were absorbed in chit-chatting and totally oblivious of our surroundings. Suddenly, I noticed one of the waiters staring at us through the reflection in a mirror, as the food court was aesthetically decorated with lots of mirrors. As soon as I looked, he averted his eyes pretending to have done nothing and subsequently made a run toward the kitchen. I ignored the matter considering it as mere peccadillo. But I lost my cool when I discovered one of the other waiters was taking our photo from the reflection of the mirror secretly. I want to share this incident as people are often cheated with hidden cameras or secretly taken photos.

Samiul Raijul
North South University, Dhaka

UNFORGETTABLE INCIDENT

Photo: Zahidul I Khan

I'm still quite shaken about the incident. It happened 2 weeks ago, while I was going to my campus from home. I need to change two buses to reach my campus. Somehow, I reached the second bus-stop that was Dashuria, Pabna a little later after the last bus had left. I also had a campus-mate there and we decided to go together. It was around 10 at night, when suddenly a micro-bus headed for Kushtia approached us. We got in and sat with 3 other people passengers who were already in the micro-bus. After 4-5 minutes into the journey, they suddenly started attacking us and said they would kill us if we didn't give them our belongings. To save our lives, we gave them everything, including mobile phones and cash money. After snatching everything away, they pushed us from the running micro-bus. A police car passing by saw us and came to us. They heard everything that happened to us and instead of taking action against the criminals, questioned us about why we were out at night! 

Bappy Sadhu
Islamic University, Kushtia