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Maze of history?

17 December 2006, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Farida S., On e-mail
History is usually the stunning story about a few. For instance, General Azam Khan compelled Iskander Mirza reportedly to hand over the presidency to General Ayub Khan who proved to be a bigger dictator than his predecessor, or A M Malek who wrote out his resignation on the back of a cigarette packet. Ordinary people rarely find any place in history, and the same tradition is being followed even to day, so the "search of the history or segments of it" is likely to lead to nowhere.

The majority in any country are the ordinary people, the common citizens. Likewise the real content of history should be the contribution of the people, as in 1971 War of Liberation. This is a shining example. Yet the history of the Liberation War is about the people who are other than ordinary!

Any significant achievement and social progress becomes possible only through the people's participation. For this to happen communication and dissemination of information is mandatory and minimising the "atrociously big distance" while calculating and designing the people's "dreams within insulated chambers which eventually turn into nightmare"

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This then is a form of neo-exploitation -- "powerful men and women" who have been empowered by the people, yet choose not to rub shoulders, though it be their responsibility, with the "mulling media" who are the link pins between the ordinary and the extra-ordinary. It is so obvious that the people have become puppets in the hands of the powerful for may be, very strange reasons, which is, yet another "new dark cloud across the horizon."
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