Random Thoughts on Bangladesh

• Before any revolution takes place on the streets, it has to take place in our minds first.
• What we need now is a knee-jerk reaction to the political impasse, enough of dialogues and protests.
• The reasons we have fever is because of any malignant virus, to cure it or to control it, we take anti-biotics which are in turn viruses themselves. To cure the political disease of intolerance and destruction in Bangladesh, we need to employ the ‘healing virus’ by spotting and destroying the political leaders who are the virus causing our national disease. Hire hitmen and kill them, we do not have law and order and enough room in prisons any ways.
• When we rush an ailing patient to the emergency, the doctors and relatives do not sit around the distressed soul and converse. They also do not wait patiently, seeking divine miracle to cure the pain, rather they apply ‘shock therapy’, to revive the senses first, to get life back on rhythm first, then diagnose the disease and observe medical care. Similarly Bangladesh has become a 35 year old ailing youth, because of the ill politics. What we need now is no more tolerance of the political leaders, rather we need to give the system a ‘shock therapy’, eliminating corrupt politicians in the most ruthless way they would always remember, if they are alive.
• Fear spreads faster than love, and if you cannot be loved, atleast be feared. There could be a way to instill fear of death, defame in the minds of corrupt politicians.
• We need to agree with the basics first and then move on, as the two ladies have hijacked the nation as they themselves are tied up in the pasts.
• What do you call a man still unsure about his father’s identity? What do you call a nation still disputing over it’s founding father?
  Let it be clear who the father of the nation is.
  Let it also be clear what his shortcomings were, but keep in mind that there is still no denying that he still remains the father of the nation.
  Now lets look in future can we?
• It always takes a few persons to spoil the whole show, similarly the number of peace loving Bangladeshis would outnumber the corrupt ones, however the evil ones still rule. I believe it would take a few of us only to bring about a change, atleast can’t we get the ball rolling?
• Even a human baby is born after 10 months of wait and pain, a nation born within 9 months of war is probably premature, unable to comprehend and sustain the value of freedom.
• We Bangalees have always been good subjects, still suffering from ‘colonial hangovers’. First it was the ‘white British’, then it was ‘Fellow Muslim Pakistani Brothers’, now we are ready to listen to anybody who is NOT a Bangladeshi. Our ex-finance minister was even jealous of Dr. Yunus winning the Noble Peace Prize. I wonder if its possible at all to bring about a positive change in our nation’s fate by ourselves? Or do we need foreign intervention? Although we started fighting against Pakistan from 26th March 1971, India intervened in 3rd December and East Pakistan became Bangladesh in 13 days, in 16th December 1971. Probably we should have delayed India’s intervention, so that every family in Bangladesh would have had lost someone in the fight for independence, then they would have probably understood the value of loss and gain.
• Bangladesh is not ready for democracy. Majority do not know how to spell ‘democracy‘ or ‘Gonotontro’ in Bengali, confused which ‘n’ to use. A ‘Benevolent Dictator’ is what is required now, so that we do not waste time, head in one direction for a few years and then talk about democracy when we think like that.
• What we are suffering from is called ‘identity crisis’. We do not have a national leader, national icon, national dress, we do not have anything to boast off to the outside world.
• Our national cricket team rightly reflects the nature of Bangladeshi people. The 11 players as a team do not acknowledge that cricket is a mind game too, involving temperament. Individually they are very nice human beings, down to earth, soft spoken and modest. They are rarely aggressive, abusive or offensive, they lack the killer instinct, they do not attack the bowlers (when they do they lose their wickets in quick successions), they do not attack the batsmen (how often do they put attacking fielding? How often do they sledge? How often do they exchange fiery looks with opponents?). However it is argued that sometimes you need to think outside the box, act outside the norm, to win a game or to bring about a change, sometimes you need to lose patience and starve for success, and change. Is the time now?
• How about a ‘Rang De Basanti’ type revolution?