A lead newsitem following Mr. Wahidul Haq’s death was donation of his body for medical science. His body was handed over to BSMMU. In the past, several similar gestures and wishes could not be fulfilled due to family unwillingness as well as inaction of the authority citing lack of guideline and law. When Aroj ali Matubbor first donated his body for medical science, that created a huge backlash and controversy. Writer Humayun Azad’s wishes could not be fulfilled as apparently the family was not sure about it. In this context after death, Mt Wahidul Haq created another milestone in Bangladesh. He finally succeded in donating his body while all previous attempts failed.
With his donation Mr Wahidul Haq threw a challenge to the medical community of Bangladesh. Now it was the responsibility of the medical community to harvest all the organs and save multiple lives by transplanting them. I don’t know what exactly happeneded with his body, but I doubt his organs could have been harvested for proper transplantation. We simply do not have an efficient system in effect to harvest body organs and parts those can be life saving to others.
In this juncture I also take the opportunity to remember Dr Enamul Haq who first donated his cornea in Bangladesh. In a very humble move late Shahadat Chowdhury, ex editor of Bichitra and 2000, was the one who came forward to receive that cornea for his injured eye. Thanks to the way they showed, only organs that is regularly harvested in Bangladesh is the cornea (eye).
I hope, thanks to the way Mr Wahidul Haq showed just showed us, someday our poor healthy young man and women will no longer have to sell their organs. Posthumous donations will ensure enough organs for transplantation.
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rumi, January 31st 2007 |
Posted in Health & Safety, Our Heroes
Update: Yunus hints at joining politics “if circumstances force”
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Overview: written Oct 23, 2006 :
Two days after Dr. Yunus, got the award, I started a world wide collection of signatures
asking political parties and Dr. Yunus to accept a formula where he could be the caretaker government chief to avert the country from immediate crisis. While the signature campaign got momentum fairly quickly, criticisms were plenty against that move. For better or worse, it generated a lot of passionate and intense debate. One thing that came out of that discussion quite clearly was that Dr. Yunus is now considered a national treasure that all of us, the Bangladeshis, regardless of our affiliation, now want to fiercely protect. Because such treasures are so rare in this country, we are arguing on how and where to use his leadership skills. This article will try to address some of the concerns raised in those criticism and at the same time offer some thoughts for the future.
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Asif, January 31st 2007 |
Posted in Politics
A few heartening developments.
All 5 election commissioners after meeting the president have resigned. This now sets up the stage for reforming the council. Former Secretary Anisuzzaman Khan is tipped to be the Chief Election Commissioner,
In a less of a significant move the agricultural adviser went to the remote villages of Mymensingh without any government protocol today. Goal was to see first hand to verify the source of the news of the fertilizer crisis first hand. The farmers came to him directly and told him of they are not getting the fertilizer they need. With the adviser was Channel I’s Shaikh Siraj. Shaikh Siraj with his very popular program Mati O Manush has been instrumental in publicizing the news of the fertilizer crisis. Previously, Siraj was called into the adviser’s meeting as an expert to brief on the situation.
Asif, January 31st 2007 |
Posted in News and events
Update:Here are some people who might like to see JMB hanged without any delay…
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naeem, January 30th 2007 |
Posted in Human Rights
By strange coincidence, this appeared on Day 1 of State of Emergency. It was originally written right after the Yunus Nobel, but DS did not publish @ the time as they were flooded with these types of pieces. DS sent it to press @ 6 pm, SOE was announced that same night.
Wounded Nation, Still The Dreamer
Naeem Mohaiemen Read more…
naeem, January 30th 2007 |
Posted in Our Heroes
I sent the following letter to the daily star day before yesterday. We all need to raise our voice about this issue. I urge to all who are affected, please mail a letter to the newspapers in Bangladesh and voice your opinion about unplanned shortsighted actions against VoIP operators in Bangladesh. .
WE ARE DISCONNECTED
While I and all my siblings are living outside Bangladesh, my elderly parents live in Bangladesh. Daily phone calls from me and my siblings used to keep them going with their lonely life.
There are hundreds of thousands of non resident Bangladeshi and as a consequence, in a situation similar to us, there are thousands of lonely elderly parents who are emotionally dependent on overseas calls from their children.
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rumi, January 29th 2007 |
Posted in Human Rights
BBC Bangla reports:
10000 People arrested
19 people killed in custody
since emergency declared.
Asif, January 29th 2007 |
Posted in Human Rights
4 years ago I was @ a Dhanmondi cafe and was astounded to see how much weight a once-tubby friend had lost.
“Ki byapar, e tho dekhi MED BHURI KI KORI er biggapon, etho shukaiso kibhabe?”
“Arre bujhos na,” interrupted a friend, “Yabba e dhorse.” Read more…
naeem, January 29th 2007 |
Posted in Health & Safety
CPJ urges Bangladesh to rescind emergency media rules
New York, January 26, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned about new regulations imposed by the Bangladeshi interim government that severely restrict news reporting. The Emergency Powers Rules of 2007, announced on Thursday, restrict press coverage of political news and set penalties of up to five years in prison for violations.
The new rules aim at a wide range of political activities. Those dealing specifically with media allow the government to ban or censor print and broadcast news about rallies and other political activities that it deems “provocative or harmful.” Under the rules, the government can seize printed material and confiscate printing presses and broadcast equipment. The government also has power under the regulations to censor or block news transmitted in any form.
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admin, January 28th 2007 |
Posted in Censorship, Media
We mourn the passing of Wahidul Huq who was a legendary organizer, musician and journalist.
Waheedul Haq was the founder of Chhayanaut, which played a vital role in igniting the flame of freedom among the people in the late 1960s prior to the country’s Liberation War.
Apart from establishing the vanguard cultural organisation in 1961 along with some other enlightened persons, he also founded a number prominent cultural and poetry recitation organisations like — Kanthashilon, Nalonda and Anandadhani.
His brother Rezaul Haq is also a journalist while another brother Ziaul Haq was a martyr in 1971.
During his 55-year long career in journalism, Waheedul served in the major English dailies of the country, including The Daily Star, where he worked as the joint editor. He was a shift in-charge of the daily Observer in the 1960s. Besides, he worked in The People, the Morning News and the New Nation.
admin, January 27th 2007 |
Posted in Our Heroes
