Those hapless children

By Nasir Uddin Roney, Dept. Of Anthropology, University Of Chittagong
18 August 2004, 18:00 PM
Another domestic help was killed in Khulna a few days ago. Looking at the picture of the corpse printed in newspapers, tears must have rolled down people's faces. The lives of many domestic help, mostly innocent children, are being snuffed out by their employers, the so-called educated {!}people proud of their career, but so reluctant and indifferent to behave properly with those young boys and girls.

However, those children or adolescents, absolutely unconscious of their rights, look up to their employers, whenever they commit a mistake undesirably. Unfortunately, their employers can't forgive them.

All of us are not equally fortunate, if they were as fortunate as you, Mostakins and Putuls would be the pupils of expensive English medium schools.

Conversely, if their employers were as unfortunate as their servants, they would be residents of slums. However, in our structured and bulky theoretical education, we learn "what to think", but not "how to think".