The Supreme court may say 'No' to guns!

In a case that will have a very large impact on the American society at large, the Supreme court is to decide whether D.C can ban handguns. American has one of the largest number of gun fatalities every single year and in my opinion it is because the guns are so easily available that teenagers can walk in to a gun shop with fake id and purchase guns and ammunition's.
It is one thing to say that the right to bear arms is enshrined in the constitution but when that very right allows young teenagers to blow off steam by shooting other innocent students and teachers to death, questions on its necessity are raised, Do we need this law at all? The right to bear arms is all fine but what about the innocent students who have lost their lives because of this asinine law? What can you tell the moms of the shot school children, that it is okay to use guns and shoot others? how will you feel if your child was shot and all because the government failed to ban guns? These are the questions that we should ask ourselves and amongst the most important of them all is this one,' do we need guns'?

Bangladesh still felling the impact of Sidr!

Many a village has totally disappeared and the people are missing, the rescue crew is yet to reach some parts of the flooded Bangladesh. The agencies fear that the count of fatalities due to cyclone Sidr will in all probability go up. To say that the local administration was totally unprepared for Sidr would not be incorrect at all.
They should have done more and at the very least evacuated entire villages with a mandatory order. Bangladesh gets flooded even with a little rain but with Sidr, a strong cyclne, it is no wonder that some villages have gone totally missing. I earnestly hope that Bangladesh does not have to deal with another Sidr anytime soon!

Bangladesh cracks down on Politicians!

Well,for many of us such incidents are really welcome news.with all the corrupt politicians that are there this is one country that says 'no' to the corrupt ones.that is fantastic and all that.but one should take heed so as not to make democracy pay the price.i mean,what with all the politicians in the jail,who will run the country.as painful as it is for me to say this,politicians are a necessary evil of the society now days.
It does not matter whether your country is fully developed or just developing.either way we all have politicians from the likes of Clinton to those of Larry craig.come what may,as a society,we are not yet developed to live a life of that of 'Utopia' and we need to be governed and we need the laws.so yes,politicians are necessary but that does not mean that we have to put up with the kind of acts that they carry out.we should regulate politicians and make sure that they behave.at the very least we expect nothing less than the best from all politicians irrespective of where they are!

Thank god Nixon did not win!

Even today most of the Bangladeshi's are happy that the U.S did not get its way especially during the India-Pakistan war of 1971 which gave independence to Bangladesh from the Pakistani rulers.as foreign policies go by,1971 saw most of the well formed foreign policy plans of Nixon and Henry Kissinger go into the dumps.the Bangladeshi's were suffering under the control of their Pakistani rulers and there were protesting for their independence from their Pakistani rulers.East pakistan as Bangladesh was known then was biting at the reins and things were going from bad to worse with the Pakistani army taking affirmative action against the rebels.
India,being aware of all this wanted a dialogue to be started between the various parties with the hope that peace would prevail.but that proposal did not even get off the ground.in the meanwhile Pakistan which was allied with China was taking serious action against the rebels in East Pakistan,driving the rebels into the Indian territories.Indira[India's prime minister] seeing that India was becoming overcome by the wave of refugees decided to meet with Nixon prior to which she and India had signed an all weather friendship pact with Soviet union.the all too infamous meeting between Indira gandhi,Henry kissinger and Nixon took place in late 1971.the U.S and nixon in particular wanted India to back off East Pakistan so that no war interferes with the U.S plans vis a vis China.but that did not happen.the U.S and Nixon in particular undrestimated Indira gandhi's resolve and the rest is history.Bangladesh got her independence and both India and the Soviet Union can truly be credited for helping her achieve this.all that the U.S did at that time was to vehemently object to the idea of a free Bangladesh,also the U.S asked China to attack India and at the same time the U.S had also sent in one of her warships into the bay of bengal thinking that would be a deterrent to the creation of Bangladesh.of course as history would tel you,the U.S failed miserably in its foreign policy at that time because in one dumb decision by a paranoid president[Nixon] and an arrogant adviser[Kissinger] the U.S managed to rub off India the wrong way,the consequences of that decision still resonates ever so loudly in the sub continent.of course the parameters as well as the players have changed and probably the new generation may not remember much but India and Bangladesh both have a long memory and they are not going to forget what the U.S tried to do in 1971,sacrificing democracy so that the U.S foreign policy vis a vis China would be on track!the recently declassified documents sheds light especially on the Nixon-Indira meetings.

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