Save our political heritage!

We can never reach such a standard again, thanks to the originality in polite-tics displayed by our highly ambitious political leaders, who were never afraid of making the greatest sacrifice on moral grounds to achieve their life-long ambition of the minority depriving the majority of the means of wherewithal.

It is a familiar symptom in the new emerging countries, but the Bengalees have now turned ruthless, intolerant, cruel, and murderous. The killer instinct is the order of the day. A keen Japanese JICA observer of the Dhaka scenes wrote (in the DS) an illuminating commentary of the present psyche of the Bangladeshi mind. The insecurity syndrome has turned into grab, grab, and grab philosophy. Why have we become so trigger-happy? Do we need so many hidden godfathers (funny, no godmothers are ever mentioned)? It is the high density of population (the birth rate has gone down from 3 to 1.5 percent, a record in the third world).

The political stock exchange is operating well in Dhaka (according to the nefarious players). It is gambling, not lucky prizes. Games of chance are prohibited in some religions. Some groups are trying to be more religious, causing embarrassment to others. How to stop these fire drills?