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20 September 2005, 18:00 PM
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
By Roney On e-mail
20 September 2005, 18:00 PM
I read the article positive press for Bangladesh in America by Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed. He wrote Bangladesh, a democracy, is also known for women's empowerment. For the last 15 years, both the nation's Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have been women! I do not know of another country in the world, including the US, which can boast of having women both as the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition at the same time for fifteen years.

In the very context of woman's empowerment he made the comparison with aplomb. But how it represents the reality of our society?

And reportedly, woman MPs for reserved seats had to pay a huge amount of money for getting nominated. They haven't been elected but selected. Is this woman empowerment for the sake of itself or some thing else?

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He also wrote Bangladesh isn't a banana republic. His expression isn't without demur considering Bangladesh's slanted position to donors' conditions and prescriptions. He wrote. " Every time I visit Bangladesh I am amazed at how much it has developed into a modern state." Here his tone is self-contented. Does the modern state only include Dhaka and Chittagong? Does he know that monga-affected people borrow at more than one hundred percent interest from moneylenders?