Let us be good

20 September 2011, 18:00 PM

Abdus Subhan, On e-mail

While travelling on buses and trains, I see the tattered poverty-ridden faces, naughty visages of the smugglers with bags of smuggled Indian sarees aggravating the already trade imbalance with India. The rich, busy enjoying their easygoing lives in comfy cars and dwellings suffering no load-shedding, hardly understand the pains of the teeming millions. The 'proven honest' ministers are there but still the impassable roads continue to send vehicles on collision courses and kill us every day. And still, money meant for the poor fill the miscreants' pockets, still criminals are given a wide berth while the innocent get the heavy battering at the law-enforcers' hand. Pervasive corruption is widening the chasm at the bottom and helping economic disparity to grow. Cannot we leave our children a corruption-free Bangladesh? Is it too difficult for this proud nation to achieve? It is high time we set out to realise our dreams. From now on, let us be good, selfless, helping and noble, aiming a long-term benefit in the life here and hereafter.