"We want to come back"

I have been hearing time and again (not from Dr. Khan) that the post independence generation does not have much feelings for the motherland. This generation lack the motivation and spirit to come and settle in their motherland after having better education and training abroad.

I was born after independence and I am writing this to refute such allegations. I know a community of about two hundred students who are having their undergraduate and graduate education in different universities of Minnesota, USA. I had the opportunity to mix with this population from a very close distance and I know for sure that each and every student feels for their motherland like anything. They read three or four Bangla newspapers everyday through internet, try to discuss the current issues of their country when they see each other, express their frustration and joy in the national events, celebrate, and observe all nationally important days. They arrange cultural programmes, Bangladesh nights and many other things to bring their motherland to their mind all the time. Among them, a good number of students who have completed their Bachelors wanted to go back to Bangladesh to do some good jobs there. And I am one of the few who have been encouraging them to do so. Yesterday, we had a get-together and all of them asked me how could I justify their home going in such a situation of our country? When life and civic security is such a crucial question, aren't job and decent life far away questions?

As we know, the life that a person leads in an alien country is never a complete life. Their hearts and thoughts always run in the country that they belong to. If our country continues to create such examples for these young men and women, the attraction of coming back to the motherland will just evaporate. Each and every day Bangladesh is discouraging our people to come back home, let alone the international citizens and investors. Will there be a time when this will stop? Will there be a morning without fear of killing? Believe me they need to come back and if we stop them from coming back, this country would be barren at the end of the session.