Saima and Yarhood
Saima was waiting in the Starbucks Coffee Shop at Miami, Florida. She was sitting for Yarhood with whom she had an affair. She knew him from the school life in California. Now she was living in Florida because her father had to move so. After a couple of minutes she ordered a coffee and some donuts. While she ate those, she was thinking about Yarhood because the night before he told her through phone that he had some good news for her. He also asked her to come to Starbucks.She seemed a little bit worried and excited about that .She was guessing what kind of good news it would be.
One hour already had gone. Still she was waiting for him. Eventually she thought to herself she was better to go back home. But she thought he would be there in a few minutes. She was looking at the other people who were at the next tables. She noticed boys and girls were taking their breakfast with their lovers. She thought about the previous days when she used to go to Staten Island and enjoyed the most romantic moments she never enjoyed before. She also thought about the first day when she met with Yarhood in that coffee shop.
After one more hour, Saima looked so disappointed. She looked around her. Suddenly, she saw a man coming to her. First she could not realize but after a while when the man came closer to her she saw that he was not Yarhood. He was a strange man but his eyes were so nice and looked blue. “Good Morning, Hoe are you Saima?” Saima was so confounded and asked “Who are you ? How do you get my name?” In reply he sat down in the chair in front of her and said, “You are Saima and you are waiting for Mr. Yarhood. You are having an affair with him and booth of you are about to marry. But he is not coming here anymore.” Saima was going crazy when she heard that. “What! What the hell you are talking about?” She asked angrily. “Cool down Ms. Let me finish.” She asked him “Who are you Mr.?” “Listen to me “He wisped. “You know, Yarhood worked at the world trade center.” “I know so what?” She added. Today while he was working in his desk at 75th floor a hijacked plane crashed into it. And about 3000 innocent people were killed in this morning.
“What happened to my Yarhood tell me.” She yelled. And began to cry. “Now his soul is resting.” He added. One question Saima was really wanted to ask him was who are you and how did you get all the information. In reply what he told her was so amazing and surprising to her. He said,” I am the soul of Mr. Yarhood. I came from heaven. Now Saima’s face turned pale and she looked at her with surprise.
He continued,” On that morning like other people yarhood also went to his office on time but the plane……he signed! I saw how humans are so cruel that they can get afford to kill over 3000 innocent people. But I saw on the other side how humans are so kind that they got the afford and brave to save those suffered people by even sacrifice their lives.”
Saima was listening silently and finally spoke out,” I want to meet with Mr. Yarhood after my death.
EVE TEASING-AN UNAVOIDABLE ISSUE IN BANGLADESH
Imagine for a moment that you are an eleven year old girl in Bangladesh. After helping your mother cook and serve breakfast, you are preparing for school. You should be excited. You are learning and school provides a reprieve from the drudgery of household chores, but you are not excited. Instead, you are filled with dread.
That is because every day, on the long walks from your house to school, you are surrounded and teased by a group of boys. The boys yell indecent things at you. They laugh, they push, they pinch, and grab at you. Sometimes they pull at your clothes so violently that you are afraid they will be ripped right off your body by the time you get to school. Your face is hot with humiliation and your eyes sting with the fear that you will have to go through the whole thing again on the walk home.
The most important topic in Bangladesh that people are concerned about is Eve teasing. Nowadays it has become an intolerable crisis throughout the country. It causes the loss of hundreds of innocent lives and makes the girls’ lives harder and scary.
The word “Eve” means female and “Teasing” means to excite sexually without intending to satisfy the desire aroused. So according to the encyclopedia we can say that Eve Teasing is an activity in where the girls are being teased by the boys. More specifically, when a boy or a group of boys tries to disturb a girl by cursing, yelling, showing sexual instruments or participating in any kind of sexual harassment while she is walking besides the street, staying somewhere, or riding on any vehicles is called Eve Teasing. According to the Encyclopedia of Britannica “Eve Teasing is a euphemism used in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan for public sexual harassment, street harassment, or molestation of women by men”.
There are a lot of reasons that Eve Teasing takes place in Bangladesh in every single year, and thousands of girls are being pushed to suicide. First of all, ignorance plays a vital role to multiply the determination of teasing to the teasers. There is a great social impact to the teased girls. For instance, social excommunication, imprisonment, permanent avoidance and personal disrespects are ultimate consequences for Eve Teasing. Accordingly, as they are ignored about this particular social crime, they don’t know those bad effects of it.
Another reason is that about 30% of people in Bangladesh are living under the poverty level. Consequently, people are struggling for their daily livelihoods and essential goods for their family members. So they work in manufacturing companies, garments companies and other individual business institutions from early morning to night. As a result, they are not able to make secure transportation for their school-going daughters.
The insufficiency of the law enforcement is also an important reason for Eve Teasing. According to the report of BNCIO (Bangladesh National Crime Investigation Organization) in 2005 approximately, 1500 women and girls were killed in Bangladesh due to Eve teasing in the last three decades. But unfortunately, the Constitution of Republic of Bangladesh did not make any law that could prevent this corruption.
Absence of social livelity multiplies Eve Teasing correspondingly. From the recent couple of years, Bangladeshi culture is being mixed by western culture. Various Print mediums publish articles, Television and Radio channels telecast different types of movies, reality shows and other programs containing sexual equipments like naked dresses, dances. Muhammad Jafor Ikbal, author of a book called” Eve Teasing and Bangladesh-A Research” says,” The reason of Eve Teasing is multicultural lifestyle If we would practice only Bangladeshi culture we can prevent Eve Teasing because our culture teaches us how to respect each other by avoiding sexual harassment like Eve Teasing”.
Ignorance about religious commands causes such abomination. About 97% of the total population is Muslim in Bangladesh. As a Muslim, all boys and girls have their religious dress code which is girl should cover her whole body by clothes except face and fingers and boy should wear something that covers his whole body until knee. There is even a law that states, “They (Men and Women) shall LENGTHEN their garments. Thus they will be recognized and avoid being insulted. Allah (God) is Forgiver, Most Merciful.”—(Quran 33:59) However, people of Bangladesh are not quite conscious about those important issues. Moreover, girls walk around the streets, markets, school and colleges thereby creating sexual incitement for the men which is another huge step to lead Eve Teasing.
Eve Teasing must be stopped. Women deserve respect. Men and women are equal. Our lack of consciousness has lead to loss of many lives, but we don’t want any more lives to say good bye to this world. Women have the right to live freely in the world. Independence is their birthright. They have the right to lead their lives as males. On the other hand, the family and the society of the victims or teased girls should have the courage and resolve to support them. Most often, they are misunderstood by their family whenever they inform the family members about teasing. The family and society should support them mentally too, government must take things seriously. Sheikh Hasina as the Prime Minister and Begum Zia as the leader of the opposition must not forget that they are women too. The country wants both of them to be active in such issues. Here are some ways that the government of Bangladesh can prevent Eve teasing strictly.
· First of all, the people of Bangladesh need social valuation about Eve Teasing so that they can stop it permanently from their society.
· Family instructions also play an important role in stopping Eve Teasing. If a girl is well-known about the teasers and their activities before turning older, she will be able to save herself in such situations.
· Different organizations who work for women should bring out processions, meetings and seminars against Eve Teasing and hand out leaflets and posters as well.
· Social communication should be increased. So that people should be aware of Eve Teasing personally first and eventually discuss it to others.
· Government should utilize the laws against Eve Teasing so that people are bound to obey the law. They can employ new police force to arrest the criminals.
· In a nutshell, young boys and girls should abide by their religious commands so that they won’t be encouraged eventually to do such kind of detested activities.
Unquestionably, Eve Teasing is a social disease in Bangladesh which spreads throughout the country in faster motion. Limitation of making laws and the lack of social responsibilities make Eve Teasing a symbol of imbalanced society in the process of socialization. However, Bangladeshis’ have the capability to discontinue this ethical interruption. Bangladesh is a country of communal equality. Hopefully, in the near future Bangladesh would be a model of the sexual harassment-free country where no parents would have to worry about their daughters while they are going to school or walking alone beside the street.
ROBERTO THE KING
Once upon a time there was a little and nice kangaroo called Roberto. He lived in Northern Australia with his parents and two brothers. He had to go a nearby forest for hunting. So every day he came back home with different types of foods. One day while he was inside the forest for hunting he saw a lot of humans walking around the forest with their large machine. Roberto became so afraid and he hid inside the bush. He saw humans used their huge machine to cut the trees down. They don’t even think about the animals live in the forest. They just cut the trees for their daily fuels and other necessities. He wondered to himself deforest ate day by day like this ,what is going to happen in the near future?
Roberto returned home safely. He told his father about what t he saw in the morning. In reply his father recommended him run away every time from humans. “They don’t want us to live in the forest happly.hey want to kill us. So whenever you see them just come back home anyway.”
The next day was a rainy day. It was raining cats and dogs. The water was waving everywhere. There was thunder in the rain. All animals suffered due to the rain. The rain finally stopped in the afternoon. Eventually, Roberto came out and he became surprised when he saw a nice rainbow in the sky. He was so excited and wanted to show that to his brothers. According to this, went back home and got all his brothers and showed them. The rainbow was very nice and it looked like a half of a circle. They were really enjoying that.
Suddenly they heard a noise coming towards them. First, they did not care about it but when it was getting louder and louder they thought something is going wrong in here. Quickly, they saw that a group of humans came to them with their large machine. As a result, Roberto and his brother jumped out so that they could go somewhere secure places. Roberto’s brothers were running away. Roberto also followed them. Unfortunately, Roberto got stuck in a bush because he found his tail trapped in it. On the other side Roberto’s father also looked for him because he found that Ronerto was absent.
Roberto was so afraid because Humans with their giant machine were to close on him. He tried to hide inside the tree so that he could be secure. In the meantime, he noticed that people stopped and they were planning to cut trees. Suddenly he felt like something was falling down…B..O…O…M!! Big tree just felt down just where Roberto was hidden and he was hurt in his head by the tree. So that he could not see anything.
When he woke up he saw he lying in his bed. His father, mother and all his brothers sat nearby him. He tried to talk but he couldn’t. After couple of weeks he recognized that could talk but in a different language and nobody could understand.
Roberto the king
Mamun Hasan