Today is a Sunday. It's already night in most of the northern hemisphere.. On American East coast, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, Irene is hammering the coastal metropolis'. At London, Manchester City has has just pummeled Tottenham Hotspur in English Premier League Football, sending a strong signal across the board. A little east to London, Belgium Grand Prix has just concluded and Sebastian Vettel, young German race car driver has all but assured his prospect of becoming the youngest F1 champion in history. And f-a-rther east in India Anna Hazare, the activist, has called off his hunger strike against corruption-in-his-country after receiving firm pledges from the political leadership of strong anti-corruption legislation. This last piece of events has ringed a bell somewhere....and couple of questions need answering!
I don't know how severe corruption is, in India, or whether this selfless & patriotic gesture of Mr. Anna will bring any real change. But one thing I know is, here in Bangladesh, we are a deeply corrupt society. Here, it (corruption) has long passed ankle deep or knee deep level and now it's almost nose deep, choking life out of our beloved country... India is just beside us, we share almost identical socioeconomic heritage and there in India, a guy is going almost 12 days without food or water forcing their mighty Government to take measure to root out corruption! and, in the process he is creating huge public opinion drawing thousands and millions to the cause... But, here we are sleeping. Oblivious to the silent hemorrhage that corruption is inflicting on us in every moment and every seconds of the day! Probably none of my fellow countryman will see my lamenting or see the great chasm that lie in front of us, but still I want to pose this question: What will bring our nation and its people to the senses? When will we get our Anna Hazare??
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