Over-stretching exercises

By Alif Zabr, Dhaka
28 February 2004, 18:00 PM
If you over-stretch yourself you strain yourself physically and mentally, our politicians and public administrators (generally speaking) are debauching themselves with such self-centred practices.

They need traction exercises and rest and recuperation period to heal their moral wounds, before they volunteer (1) themselves as physicians to cure the illnesses of the society ("physician cure yourself first"). These political "doctors" need medical doctoring, although they are experts in other forms of negative doctoring, which are paying rich dividends in a one-way traffic. (That is the suspected hidden motive for calling hartal against every four voters out of five--what idiosyncrasy!).

Lust and greed do not bother about boundary conditions, the more the better, and to hell with the digestive system.

Pure and simple poverty encourages humility, but dress it with cosmetic layers and ornamental jargon, and it harms others. This is the malaise in poor and rising Bangladesh--the powerful minority vested groups do not get the benefit of the doubt. Political culture has lost its credibility--the inner beauty is gone, and the cosmetic applications are cheap imitations. Why go for artificial beauty contests--the inner beauty is not there.