An Almost Experience!


It is not an uncommon scene for me at least.
We always see vans and carts carrying dangerous construction materials in roads with a huge possibility of hitting and hurting people severely!!!
Me and the rickshaw puller almost had it today!
It is not that serious, I know, but it can be.
Let's raise our voice before something really serious happens to us and we are left with no ways!
Don't just lose your sense and sensibility anymore, let's deal with it!

Where is the footpath?



You may have guessed the place already!
Whatever, this should be the footpath.
But where is it?
I don't find it.
Do You?

Riding in the footpath!



At Shahbagh beside the Shishu Park, I found these guys riding bikes in the footpath!!
Almost in every roads people now-a-days take their bikes on the footpath to avoid the jam!!

Where are we going? Where have we lost our civic sense?
Just where?

International Representation!



In the left, it's a normal stadium of Navi Mumbai, India and In the bottom it's the only international cricket stadium in Mirpur, Dhaka.

The first one is one of the many venues from India of World Cup -2011. And the second one is the one of the few venues from Bangladesh for the same tournament!
Do you see the difference? Or is it just me who is thinking about the impression on global audience?

Have Some Mercy, Please!


This news actually is not that serious in terms of the other we get to know more or less!
So,
Dear Doctors,
Have some mercy on us! Please!

One Huge Misdeed!


I meet him almost every time I visit Baily Road. He does not know me, but I know him well, very well.
He lives in the foot path with his mother and a younger brother.
He has no else place to go or live or has any other thing to do!
He lives in the trashes, plays with these.
Everyone passes by, never even looks at him!
But I do.
I did a Mistake too,
I never asked his name.
I can not.
I feel scared!
And...
Ashamed!

Safety Rules Redefined!



The grill on the CNG auto-rickshaws were put to ensure the passengers more safety from hijacking!
But I feel the opposite!
This has now become a "Cage of death" for the passengers instead.
If the vehicle meets an accident, it will be impossible for the riders to come out. Moreover, this heavy-metal grill will crush them inside!
I just avoid using CNG auto rickshaws now!! !!

Senses in Vain!



What more to say??
This is the greatest thing we can do total shamelessly!!
Everywhere!
The day we stop doing this, I believe, we will move a hundred steps further towrds real development as a nation!

Roadside Snacks!




These are common "Easy Snacks" on the way! We eat them as if these were home-made!
A moment of "Easy eating" leads to a heck of problems!
At least keep your children away of eating these!!

Great Obedients!




Funny or not, this happens everywhere!
We, Bangladeshis certainly have great sense of humor!
T
hus we show it!
p.s.: The Authority seemed to be in a dilemma too!

Over-Bridged!


I don't know what it takes to cross the roads using the over bridges!
This mother was crossing a busy road with her kids over looking the over bridge! Is that time it takes is more valuable than the kids' lives?
On the other hand, passer-by complain that over-bridges are not at all safe for them to walk!
These bridges are the den of anti-socials!
What to do!!!???

It is My Mother Language!



There are plenty of examples like the pictures of how much we love and respect our mother tongue!!!
This is the language for what some people sacrificed their bloods!!
This is the language which is rated as the worlds most beautifully accented
language!!!
Aa mori Bangla Bhasha!!!

Flower Girl!


I know this picture is way too common and so the topic might be!
But I still can not think how a child can be the wage earner of his/her own life?
Don't we have anything to do for them?
Why should they trout over the roads to hawk things?
Could you accept it for your near and dear one?
Could you?

Love to Kill Thyself



All of we know that, the ingredients of cigarette can damage our heart & lungs & we can have a taste of death but we love to do it. So despite being an educated person this kind of harmful sense has developed in us. This is what I really call "Dealing with sense & sensibility!"

Keep in Touch with Danger



As Bangladeshis, we love to keep in touch with danger. Our intelligent government doesn't feel the necessity of the overpass for railway. That's why we, the people of Bangladesh, are always hugging dangerous accidents. So is it just our fate or an outcome of some evil intention ???!!!

Coiled by Coils


We use coils to get rid of mosquito. But these coils put us in more danger.
1. Coils produce toxic gases to kill mosquito which is equally harmful for us.
2. It can cause to serious breathing problems and eye irritations.
3. Regular using of coil effects as bad as chain smoking.

4. Coils can cause burns and fire in the house

So, is it sensible to use coils anymore? We bring coils to kill mosquito but it gradually kills ourselves!!!

The Perfect Reward!


Moral of the story: If you deal with sense, sensibility and morality, you may get punished!
That's why we remain silent, whatever happens!

Riding Death!


Again newspapers!
I am pretty sure that so many of us have already faced this kind of situation. It happens almost all the times; in case of CNG Auto Rickshaws and normal Rickshaws specially.
I just don't understand what do the drivers think when they put the vehicle in middle of two others???
Beside the passengers, aren't their lives in danger too?
Why do they lack sense and sensibility this much???

I am Ashamed!


Photo Courtesy: Google Image Search
Photo Source: Social Science text book of class VI issued by the Education Board

I Have No Comments to Make.

Equal Treatment



For some unknown reason, I dislike this idea of "Mohila Seat". And specially when women are compared with children and physically disabled ones!!! How rude is that?!?
We always talk about equal treatment of women to men. Now we have equalize women, finally!
That is what everybody has accepted- women are same as any physically or mentality under- developed ones!
How blind can we be!!

Drinking Purity!


If any of you had taken a sigh of relief seeing the previous post and thought that at least you don't drink water from WASA, then you are the perfect one for this post!
We, the middle class sort of Dhaka now use these container water instead of WASA to drink. We rely on it blindly and brag over others that we don't drink filthy supply water!
That is the source of the pure container water that you buy with a healthy amount of money!
Having perspectives? Save that, that's probably the purest water you can have!

Using Purity!


I found this while browsing the internet. We all are well aware of the fact about the water we are supplied by the WASA. But did someone imagine this much?
This is one of the sources of WASA from where they filter their water to make it USABLE!
I don't think that even after a millionth time of filtering, this water can be USABLE!!!
But guess what? We already use such water everyday!

Risking it all!


On my way, I found these workers at Kakrail working on a high rise building. They were welding and at the same time standing in the thin metal sheets. I had a great terror seeing them working like that!
Any thing can happen while their this risky job. Or just nothing can happen. But the risk remains.
Everyday we hear news about the death of any construction workers. But it does not matter to us!
Shouldn't there be a good law to at least insure their lives?
Or we just forgot that they are human too!

Ekdiner Bangalee Holam Re




Now-a-days we celebrate our "Cultural" occasions very magnificently. We follow a dress code, arrange and participate on various events, hang out on that days to "Celebrate" it according to the "Theme".
Whether it is Pohela Boishakh or Ekushey February, we never miss an occasion to show how Bangalee we are!
Like this cartoon again lend from The Star Magazine, we just were a mask or a full costume to camouflage our original faces for only a day.
But have we, specially the so called "Young Generation" ever thought what would we actually are? Mutants
or Hybrids? Or Worse?

Running with the Race!


Yes! We just run these days. To be exact, we just chase things. People, fashion, habits or foods, we just run and try to get those. Without even knowing what we exactly want or need.
We are blinded now. We just run, not seeing where we are going! Just like the cartoon published on The Daily Star's Star Magazine.

The Gateway


In the right, it's The Dhaka Gate, the gateway Dhaka City built during the Mughal Dynasty. I bet most of us don't even know where it is situated!
And below, it is the famous Gateway of India, known and recognized world wide.
But The Dhaka Gate was built long before the Gateway of India and is more valuable in historical terms. But look how we are savoring it.
With posters and wires!
And how Indians have kept theirs'!!
Hail Bangladeshis!!!

A sneak-peek to the future


I took this photo of the cartoon from the "Desh TV- UNMAD Cartoon Exhibition" last year.
It seemed so true to me that time.
Can you picture Bangladesh at 2020 with anything better than this? The way we are wasting our resources and damaging the environment, it looks so perfect for us!
Now, it's time for us to decide, what do we want?
A life with an oxygen mask or even the last breath with some pure oxygen?

Bills For Billboards


I am again lending from newspapers. This one is from The Star Magazine. This news is quite forgotten now. A billboard fell over a man at Gulshan and he died. But I can't still get over the horror.
I walk on the roads watching up straight, looking for any falling bill boards to hit me!
I just want to ask those house-owners that why did they gave permissions for such heavy things to stand over their buildings? For a certain amount of money? A billboard can turn the whole building down too!
Is life and a property of a life-time cheaper than only a few bucks?

The Ray of Light: Episode 2


In my last post on street lights, I pointed out the reason of not having lights at street.
Now, in this post, I am trying to find (!) out the reasons of lighting in the day time!
I don't know how the system runs, but I didn't find any necessity to lit street lights that time as it was only early afternoon!
Do you suggest me a good explanation for that?
Or it's another lacking of Sense and... you know!!

Lost Sense and Sensibility!



I have written so many things in the picture. But again, I just think we are losing our sense and sensibility everyday. We just don't pay heed to anything, ANYTHING!

Road Hackers



It's not actually a new phenomena for the Dhaka-dwellers. Any under construction building could be found with cement, rods and other materials scattered in the adjoining road.
It's too common to even question on. Building owners and contractors behave the way that they also paid for the Government roads to use as a storage.
These materials are never put away until the whole work is done.
Passers-by now don't even curse them!
It is normal now.
Like every thing else in this "Shob-Shomvober Desh!"

In search of a "Fixed Place"!


All the garbage-taking pickups have these words written in them. But where is a place to dump our garbage exactly?
It had places in the past, but what about now?
Do any of you see any dust-bins anywhere?
Perhaps the whole city has become one!

Love for FOOD!



We love food. And as LOVE is BLIND, we are too when it comes to FOOD!
We buy food from posh restaurants to street side Tongs!
We love to eat, but don't care what we EAT!
You, me and everyone else have bought foods from filthy places like this one.
But the only questions is, is that really necessary?
Is that the best alternative to your hard earned money and to save your energy and time?
Is it? Really?

Safety First!


Who says we are aware of our road safety? Who accuses us for not wearing helmets while riding a bike? Now all of them can be silenced!
You may assume from the picture that this guy was in a hurry and just got in and will be out soon. But no, he sat there with the meal and ate it. If I had not seen it myself, I wound not believe how safety concern we have become!!!
I would not have been writing this blog only if his wife had a helmet to wear too!

A gift to nature



They say that, nature is the best gift to mankind. That's all we certainly know.
And we are generous too. So, we give the favor back to nature.
Brick-burning towers are a great threat to nature. But we are continuously burning it on.
When a gift is taken, it becomes our own. If the nature is tormented this way. it will fall down soon, so we will!
Isn't that gift being too costly for us?

I am the KING of the world!!



Bus Service in Dhaka can merely be called something "Good" or "Satisfactory"! Let's talk about it later! But the thing I am talking about is the people riding those.
The way our drivers drive through out the roads, it's really a miracle if we get there safe and sound. In such an worsen situation, we also like to add some features.
Like this one, we like to sit comfortably to "Enjoy" the ride.
I don't know if we think about the enjoyment after the fracture in the elbow or not!

Living "Under Construction"


Dhaka is having an edifice every now and then! For residential or commercial, every purpose may fit in. But the increasing number of high-rise buildings are on. And funnily, they are never left empty.
Like the one in the picture, many buildings, which are yet to be completed, have residents! I don't know who should I blame, the authority or the residents?
Aren't they aware of the risks and their property values? Or they just don't care like everything else?

Hssshhh! Don't Tell Your History!



If I don't tell you the place, you may take a heck lot of time to figure it out! This is the Mosque of Shahidullah Hall, DU. People still use it. But I bet no one knows its historical value!
Well, I am not going to discuss about our negligence and irresponsible behavior towards our valuable historical possessions. Just wanted to point out how rude we are to not even name this Mosque with its original one! Why? Because we lost it!!!
Feeling embarrassed? We better be!

Home, Sweet "Street" Home!



It is now too common for us to find so many people living in the foot path in the shanty.
It is not at all temporary now, they seem to live here permanently. Neither the dwellers nor the authority have headache regarding this.
Specially the residential areas of middle class people are the main points they capture.
If they live in the pavements, then what will people use to walk? Plus they pollute the area greatly and often snatch things from passers-by.
Can't we even walk in the street normally?

Wire it Out!



While passing by the roads, anyone can notice the wires and cables of various purposes (mainly of electricity) are coiled together. Hundreds of these almost-same-looking wires are very important and necessary ones for our everyday works. But is it a decent way to hang these essential wires and cables like this everywhere? And what about the risks?
Or is it an acceptable picture for a 40 year old metropolitan city like Dhaka?
These wires are like the veins of the city. Like the veins, they carry the power element to the remotest corner. And when they are out, the body looks odd and soon it dies too!
So, it's better to keep them inside from every aspect.

A River full of Rubbishes



This is a River surrounding Dhaka at Aminbaazar. I crossed this road a few months ago while my trip to Jahangirnagar University. That time its water was fresh and soothing to eyes.
But my last weeks' visit surprised me terribly when I found this water incredibly polluted and black with a disgusting stink. Besides, the process of dredging sand from the river is greatly increased. I don't think this river will survive very long!
How long will we take to KILL all our rivers and then Kill ourselves?
Which one is the next?

The color of “SMOKE”



The color of smoke is dark. But the color of smoke filled with CO2 is darker than anything. It has the darkness of death and environmental hazards!

Dhaka is already listed as one of the most polluted city in the world. It produces a great deal of CO2 to the nature that can bring death to us!

I am not talking about other options. But at least we can convert our vehicles to CNG supported ones. This would be the least to do for the sake of reducing air and environment pollution.

Can’t we have this highly needed sense to save our lives and our future generations as well as the whole country?

Loving the nation, using its assets!



We have a country, an independent one. Its every single place is our own. We have achieved it. So is the “Shangshad Bhaban” area.

Our one good nature is that we never obey sign-boards.
We never. So what the place is a highly classified one? We have every right to go their, sit, eat peanuts and throw the shells in the water and hang out. To hell with a stupid sign-board!

We can do these. Because, there is nobody to stop us. Those people are violating their rules also!


So, keep enjoying.

“Women Power”


Women have equal rights to men. They are independent and can do everything for their own sake. They are often harassed and insulted in the society for minor reasons.But they most of the times try to hide it and never strive for justice. They feel shy to claim their own rights and the society remains repulsive to them.

Here, we have “Struggling” women for the rights. But not for their own ones. Can we imagine the picture when women were so revolting when the society or its people tried violating their rights? Is their any picture like that also?