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Some of my recent taken photographs

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Are You safe ?

Do you Watch Porn ?

Answer is yes for 95% reader , I am pretty much confident about that. Right now I can recall a statistics revealing the fact that , most of the officials in organizations like Pentagon or NASA browse porn in office. So, its nothing unusual.

USA along with other countries have an exponentially growing porn industry. They produce porns under some certain rules and regulation. But still human rights are violated in USA and other countries regarding this business. Specially forceful involvement of children is a giant problem.

We adopt everything from west. I am not saying that , porn was a alien concept to Bangladesh, but internet magnified this problem to a great extent. Neglecting the moral issues, porn is not that much problem when professional artists act there and it is distributed or sold under strict rules. But when some sexual actions are recorded without the permission of one or both of the couple, which is also named as hidden cam porn, raises a hell of threat.

If you are aware enough about what is happening in Bangladesh Internet Circle, then should have known about the hidden cam situations in Bangladesh. Some circles are releasing these porns frequently over internet. Most of this videos clearly indicated that, the female in that video, doesn’t know about the recording. In very rare cases, it is found that both of them are unaware. Few years ago, one young man living in USA and another in Dhaka, trapped many girls by acting of love. You can read them here and here.

But what actually is more devastating ( as I think ), is the mobile/cell camera. With the advancement in technology, cell cameras are heading to their best. Clear image quality, zooming and high resolution, makes all the videos and photos very high quality.

As a member of many forums ( both bangladeshi and non bangladeshi ), i have experienced something very horrible. Like a girl in a market place, who is a little unaware about her wardrobe malfunction, is captured by a distant guy with his high zoom mobile cam. No one can ever guess what is that person doing. Trust me , there are thousands of pictures in many Bangladeshi sites including the so-called adult forums of Bangladesh.

Innocents girls have no idea that without  a slightest mistake, what kind of pain they are going to face.This kind of things are spreading very fast. Like, only within a day, the photos are spreaded all over the globe. After that, those photos start to circulate in hundreds of forums. Thus, these photos are almost irresistible to spread.

I don’t know what Government is thinking about the problem. OR they even conscious about the problem. But with my little anticipation power, I can see a great devastation. A high social security along with the  improvement in mass mentality should be the only remedy.

In next part, I wish to discuss about possible steps to take. Till then take care.

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Care Taker is “Taking Care”

I took a resolution that I won’t write negative words for CTG. First of all, there is a state of emergency in state.Though journalism ( I guess same time blog writing too) is out of this state to some extent, but there’s a thin line between can do and can’t do as declared by Govt. , So, I wanted to play safe. Another important reasons behind this is my bad reputation for being negative all the time. People around say me all time that, I like to think negative. So this time I thought, I wouldn’t do anything. Let the time say the epic. No more speculation or else. So, this is the first blog of mine,criticizing interim government.

Why everybody were so cheerful, delightful after 1/11 ? Everybody thought this is end of something. May be we are just entering a period of infinite progress. A period, when every decision will be taken ensuring the well fare of public. Very few people then speculated that, this hope’s not gonna work. But no one gave them much importance rather criticized them for being negative and typically political. But what’s the present scenario ?

Today, I was watching News channel in TV and saw some clash between police and labors of Amin Jute Mil, Chittagong. They (labor) demanded salary of 2 weeks while authority were inclined to give them salary of 1 week.Point to be noted that, their salary for 12 weeks are due. So they protested and made some chaos. Police fired tear gas and charged batons to disperse them. At least one is dead and more than 100 is injured.

Now take a deeper look at the incidents. Interim Government took the charge and declared “Zihad” for saving jute industries. As a sign of “zihad” they shutdown 4 jute industries. If you looked at newspaper, you might know that, it needs a few times money to close the jute mills than bring back it to active state. Yes, we are in Zihad indeed, just not sure for which party we are fighting !! Another mock was made by an adviser Geeti Ara Safia, who claimed that nothing would happened to the workers in case of late payment since they have got the Blessing from ALLAH. One simple request to them, please don’t mock at us. If u people can’t solve the problem, just stay quiet. No need to make such “Altafian” funs.

Yes you can kill 1 labor and beat another hundreds since they were braking the rules, the rule of mighty state of emergency. You have the right. But do you go to the local market regularly ? Do you see the price jumping ? Its getting harder day by day to live comfortably for middle class people. So think about the lower class people who works in a jute mil and weren’t paid for months.

We are beggars. A nation of beggars. We can’t run out nation until we got help from the UN, IMF, ADB etc etc. And we neither want to. All govt.s, AL, BNP, Army people all were so good at begging. After 1/11, I thought situations gonna change. We won’t walk on the line showed by the IMF/ADB peoples. But alas, it’s completely wrong. We are walking more easily and straightly on that line. Now I can see that, as an elected govt, previous BNP AL didn’t dare to take such a mammoth decision of closing 4 jute mills. Frankly speaking, I wouldn’t wonder if they took some decision. But they thought about their chance of getting elected next time and also thought of the opposition parties. But interim govt. is so tensionless. They neither have the risk of being elected again and nor have the risk of opposition since it’s state of emergency and they are pressurizing the political parties. What I can see Bangladesh is eventually gonna lose all the jute mills, lose a huge amount revenue and it will no longer be our Golden Fibre.

Do you know about the Jute market of India ? Interesting. I was reading some articles a few days back, about the World Jute market. And India is replacing Bangladesh gradually. Why not ! We are closing and they are opening. They are getting all the jutes of Bangladesh. We just love to just shout on seminars about the industrial growth of Bangladesh. And in real time, we are just closing all the industries which can bring us most revenue. ADB , IMF etc are giving us more money than political period since they are happy in Govt. Progress. Why not ? Govt. is just taking the medicine according to WB/ IMF/ ADB prescription. More foreign money will come I hope. We need this, because since we are closing all industries, begging is the only thing left we can do.

I have given up all hopes about jute and frankly speaking worrying about the coal. I have read many articles about national coal policy. It’s too hazy. No one ( normal public) knows anything about this. This govt is just walking on the same road as previous govt.s did. May be one fine morning we will hear that, all coals of our country is the property of Asia energy. I won’t be shocked, really !!

Its all right that they are capturing the “fake plastic superheroes” of politics. But there are more important things than politics. They are not the elected people by govt ( though they have the people support, but its not proven election), they don’t have enough member in their committee to discuss. Why they need to take such critical decision ?

Lets say, they want the welfare of country, of us. How could they justify the closure ? Putting thousands of people work less, home less and throwing a prospective industry to darkness, what they can prove ? It’s true industries were running on loss due to the previous governments. But it takes less money to run the industries properly than shutting it down. They could run it again, and monitor properly this time. do they cut their head down when they have headache? I’m not sure.

I want to be optimistic. I hope interim govt will do the works properly and on priority base. They should remember, food and shelter is the foremost basic need. Politics is not. If they fail to secure people on this two point, they will face a severe situation. Doesn’t matter whatever charisma they are showing us in political field !

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Is that a life I want ?

One of the major changes in Bangladesh in last 10 years, is certainly that , some telecom companies and MNCs started to pay higher salaries. When I admitted in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) in BUET , I saw that everyone is excited about the subject because of its huge job market. So , somehow its assumed that , a EEE graduate from BUET is obvious to join a telecom company.

Well , I can still remember what Physics says. Physics has some popular laws of Conservation ( like Conservation of mass , conservation of energy etc), which actually states that you can’t achieve anything from nothing. You need to put some hight input to get a satisfactory output. So , does we violate the laws here ? I mean we can get the big money . What’s the input here ?

The input is your life.

I can assure you that , you won’t have a life when you get a high paid job from this companies. I have seen a lot of examples in my life. First of all , I should talk about my cousin Pranad da , who is right now working in BRAC Bank IT sector , after working in many reputed organizations ( he’s quite famous for leaving his job and getting a better one). Pranab da is in service for many years ( like 7-8 years ) . I have always seen him tired , exhausted due to office loads. I have seen him to stay many nights in office to configure server/router/network or to repair it. Well like him, is my sister. Shes working for Warid Telecom Bangladesh. I can see under what pressure , stress and load she lives ! Every night I see her coming from office near 8-9 PM , taking her meal and go to bed, because she needs to attend office next morning at 9 AM.

There are another aspects that astonish me. I know Sumit Vai for many days. He’s my cousins friend , one of the founders of Golpo.Net. Sumit vai was a net freak , like hell. Well , Sumit vai entered in a job , and what can I say ! I have seen tonight in MSN Messenger, after many days. Is it sumit vai , who’s almost obsolete from internet ? After having a little chat , he said , “I gotta go because I have office tomorrow” . ewwwwwww man!

This night also I have a little chat with Farabi vai , one of the greatest seniors brothers of my life time , passed from my department. Farabi vai works for Banglalink. Well , I just sought an idea from him about a matter , and he repiled “Don’t ask me. I have forgot everything because of my job. Its killing me. I have just come from office” Well , I was chatting at something like 12:30 AM.

I am really much much scared. I know job means responsibility. They pay me high , so its implied I need to work more.Besides I can’t also expect the same flawless , singing – dancing student life ! It’s job world ! Its hard . But how much hard ? Is it logical to kill our other entities and run after the ambition and goals ?

I feel panic , when I think that I won’t have time to chit-chat with my friends , write some blogs or passing some good times in IRC ( i mean after coming from office , in night). If things are as hard as I see right now , then I think, its my last days in pompeii !!

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For All ?

A few days ago I told that , Human Right is for all, in a debate discussion of Golpo.Net. I also told that, everybody should get the equal chance to express his/her view, whoever (S)he is.

Right now , I am withdrawing my words. Human Rights should not be applied to all.

Why I am telling this ?

Well, Recently I have visited a famous Bangla Blog Site after many days ( I don’t want to disclose the name , just as a hint , I can say that it starts with “S”. I hope smart people will catch it 😀 ). The more I surfed the site , the more I was stunned. Clearly the site is divided into 2 sides , Against the liberation of Bangladesh , Jamat-E-Islami and Against Jamat-E-Islami.

I had little idea how Jamat propagates their ideas thorugh some forums and sites in internet. But clearly I was unaware , how a famous blog site is used to propagate their views. As I told before in many posts that, Anti Liberation Fundamentalists are growing more powerful day by day. And it’s a non stop process from 1975. Most probably there isn’t any organization left today, which is free from Jamat influence. From English medium schools to universities like IBA,BUET, DU,CU even private universities like NSU, IUB every educational institution. They have their supporters in top position of every Govt. Office , N.G.O. everywhere. I say , they are the most organized institution in Bangladesh.

Frankly speaking I don’t like one of the oldest bangla blog sites to be used in this way. They may say , that Freedom of Speech is equal for all. Well , I thought so. Even I am thinking so. But think carefully its a human right which is only applicable to human. Do you really think , those Pakistani collaborators are human ? They should have the privilege to express their view ? Isn’t it enough that they are living in the country which they opposed ? Isn’t it enough they rode the power for once ?

It’s a request to the blog site administrators to ban those users who publish “moududi” doctrines there, otherwise you can not ignore the charge of helping them spreading.

** shit man , I am really sick , after reading those craps on the blogs 😦

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A doctor should …

This morning I read a news . 5 patients died in Rajshahi Medical College as doctors declined to serve due to some unpleasant incidents between doctors and patients ( doctors claimed , some patient’s relative beat them)

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Hmm, I don’t want to discuss about what happened actually. Whatever it was , my key concern is doctors retreated themselves from providing service. It can be mentioned that , only a few weeks ago , almost similar scenario was created during the clash between 4th class employees and doctors. And as a consequence doctors declined to serve.

I wonder in which country we live ? Is there any law at all ? or is there anything called humanity ? Do we have proper respect to existing laws ?

Seems to me , the answer is a big NO.

Obviously we protest any kind of misbehavior against doctors and expect authority should take proper legal steps against them. But why retreating themselves from serving ? How could they let a patient die ? It’s not a question of being a doctor , it’s question of being a human. And if you read the whole news with care , you would find it normal to lose your thoughts , take some offensive stances , when your wife is dying , and no doctor is showed up for hours. I am not justifying his misbehaviors , but request you to understand how a man should feel.

Think that , 5 innocent people died only for some arrogant doctors. Everything will be normal in days , everybody will lead their normal life except those bunch of ill fated family who lost their nears and dears for some “snob” , “so-called-human” doctors.

Can those doctors do the same thing if that patient were in a private clinic ? I guess NO.

I had a very terrible experiment in Govt. Hospital, Where I had to go once to show my pathological test reports to one of the doctors. It was 11:00 in the morning , and I couldn’t find that doctor. Someone said “He’s in doctors common room ( or canteen) , and taking some cookie and tea” . I waited for almost 1 hour , and he didn’t show up. When I decide to leave , he appeared , after almost 1:15 minutes. There were almost 15-20 patients waiting for him for hours, most of them are seriously sick. Why they waited ?They waited because they had no option to go anywhere else , where they could be treated well in exchange of cash. Though not 100% doctors are like this , there are surely some very good exception, but you would definitely agree with me that , most of the doctors exactly match with above scenario.

These incidents somehow kill me very much. I know we can’t pay doctors well , as they should be , after studying the hardest syllabus among all U G subjects. But they should remember this , being a doctor is something very much special and noble. if you think you can’t continue to serve in such a low money , then you should give it up. But you haven’t no right kill hopes of thousand innocent lives.

I strictly think , retreating themselves from serving , is somewhat a crime and they should face the legal action for their deeds as they all are killer of 5 innocent lives.

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Complex For Middle Class !

Do we really have a middle class in our society ( according to earning) ? A very old and debatable question. Its true that there’s no “true” and “proper” middle class in our society.And additionally I would like to think that , its a bad luck for us, since its proven that middle class are always pioneer in leading any social revolutions as per history suggests !

Whatever it is , for my current writing I would like to assume that , we have a middle class culture in our society though it’s not really middle class.

Generally what are the most important things other than money in our life ? Answer may vary , but I think you will agree with me that “Religion” and “Sex” are both very potential choices. Thoughts were occurring in my mind for many days, how these really affect peoples mind.

After some days thoughts, I came to a conclusion that , two extreme classes namely Rich and Poor are not bothered by these usually. These bother only the remaining class aka middle class.

Why I am telling this ?

Let’s start with religion.Religion is the most ancient, well established institution among human society having histories greater than thousands years. Most of the religions give the outline of what to do and what not to do. Not to do list is a huge one. Drinking , telling lie, killing etc etc are placed in not to do list. From my experience I have seen that, there are many rich families who regularly make their prayer. Besides they don’t think twice before drinking ( thought I don’t think drinking is an offense) . They all have their high society stuffs and so on.

Same situation lies with Sex too. Most of them really don’t have any complex about sex before marriage, sleeping with other man/woman.

Look at lower class ( poor). They don’t have much headache about religion. You can see lots of rickshaws on street on the time of Friday Jummah Time. Obviously reason behind that is not same for both upper class and lower class. A lower class people is truly more honest than an upper class people ( most of the cases) and he struggles from hand to mouth to for maintaining his livelihood. But the result is same , neither he can’t pay much attention to religion nor it(religion) has a deep impact on his life. Without going much deeper , we can also say that lower class people also don’t have the hesitation about the right or wrong in SEX.

But all the above stated problems are well existed for middle class. they thought twice before making any decisions. Its middle class , who are always bothered about religion, about its instructions, right or wrong etc stuffs. They have also same sort of thinking about sex too.

I guess it’s all about education and ethics. Middle class is such a place, where you have a bit more money than lower class with addition of education. This class always hesitate to take a decision. I don’t know , whether they are doing right or wrong !

May be time can answer this question as well as it does.

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ISP : Another name of client harassments

Its been a long time since I wrote my last blog. Actually , my tremendous pressure of study and other affairs (!!) didn’t give me much room to write some craps here.

Well , for last few days , I am in serious trouble with my ISP. Those who knows me , has experienced the pain of chatting with me in MSN or anywhere else ( IRC ) , knows much better than me about my connection.

What’s the main problem with my line ? Well , it’s the same problem which are you facing more or less with your isp , if you are living in Bangladesh and using some $hit named Broadband. Actually, all ISPs start their business with a decent bandwidth, early customers think that their ISP is awesome and they are gonna rock forever. But situation seems to turn around when ISP becomes more familiar in the territory. A great number of people starts to take connection from them and all on a sudden those bunch of “intelligent” people got that , they are earning great money. Those idiots doesn’t seem to realize that , they need increasing b/w for their increasing amount of clients. They are trying to reach 200 clients with the b/w they bought for 20 clients. Besides, most of the isp setup are actually done by some free lancer network engineer or someone who is not 24 hrs dedicated to that ISP business. So you cant expect anything named service from them. Right now , my ISP hasn’t any network specialist with them. So a quack “network engineer (as he claims himself)” is trying to set things up. He’s facing the hurdles of running Linux server without proper knowledge. So , one very nice evening he requested me to set his linux gateway server up. And I deny that proposal at once obviously with great decency.

Actually the core reasons behind all these problems are same. It’s lack of regulation in this business from GOVT. Its true that , we have a very costly b/w infrastructure because of foolish acts did by previous Govt. regarding submarine cable. But beside that , ISP s are doing there business according to their own wish. They are selling the same amount of b/w for the same price where as b/w cost is reduced ( though not abruptly as it should ). So all the ISP authorities are just looking their own benefit. They are taking the reduction in b/w price as their scope for earning much profit. and we , the end users are totally messed up.

People in Bangladesh think that Internet means only VoIP. No one seems to bother about the low b/w at end users for which we cant browse properly, can’t download anything bigger and specially can’t upload anything.

Sorry to say , sometimes I feel cursed while surfing internet as a Bangldeshi citizen. I know it would be too much ridiculous to expect that C G will give a look to this sector , and we will get a fair enough connection in next 6 months.

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