A confused nation
I strongly agree with Rubaiyat Hossain on her August 23 article "Philosophical crisis: a confused Bengali nation". Thanks to the writer for taking the bold and brave step to identify one of our major crises. We need more writings like this in BANGLA so that the general people can read and understand. We always had and have problems but the saddest part is that neither our leaders nor the citizens have tried (honestly) hard enough to get out of it. We often blame others for our problems and I think that's dangerous. We are number one in corruption, over populated, cities are dirty/unplanned, pollution is rising, price hike is there, health & education systems are collapsing, and we have religious blindness/extremism and so on.
As a nation we need to be united and strong. I hope we rise up together to fight poverty, corruption and that's the kind of JIHAD we need. If we fail to realise our faults and don't take honest initiatives to correct these, our problems will never be solved.
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