Disturbance at night

By S A Mansoor, Gulshan, Dhaka
7 March 2004, 18:00 PM
On the night of 1st March a renowned mobile company at Rd- 8, Gulshan 1, had a party with loud band music that disturbed our sleep.

As it was the night of Ashura we spent time in extra prayers and recitation from the Holy Koran, which my wife and I continued till 10:00pm and went to bed planning to get up at 4.15am for sehri to fast on 2nd March as we usually do during the Holy Ashura.

Imagine our plight when we could not sleep till 2:00am . Over seventy, this sleeplessness badly affected me and also my wife who is over sixty. This total disregard of civic behaviour by the company, knowing that it is a residential locality where such things cannot be done, is disgraceful for a responsible multinational.

In over thirty years of residing in my house, we have possibly never been disturbed so badly till so late an hour. I wonder what would have happened if a similar offence were committed by Bangladeshis in any residential area of a European city.