The truth of the moment is that our families are shattered by irreparable losses and trauma. What should we do first? Let us stand beside our families with our prayers and supports, for all victims irrespective of Army, BDR and common people. It's not the time for witch hunting and continuing our habitual quarreling.

I was monitoring the BDR mutiny with heavy hearts since it erupted. Thanks to Almighty Allah that it's over for the moment. I am really feeling devastated to see the photos coming of the slain people. My heart is and prayers are with all the families who fall victim to such a fateful event.

Once, as a teen, I was a serious listener of Prof. Z Iqbal's thoughts as well as his nice and touching way of presentations. I thank him for bringing some of the very important issues particulary in the last half of the second part and in the third part of his writing.

After Dr. Yunus won Nobel Prize, my faculty here organized a discussion meeting on developmet startegies, where being a Bangladeshi I couldn't resist from criticizing NGO led development designs for LDCs, which bemused some of the guys present there. You will never find a single example in development history where NGOs were put in driving role by passing the state mechanism.

I am from the same locality where jute mill tragedy is taking place for last 8 years. All of my neighbours, friends, and few of my relatives are in this way or that way connected to jute mills. Though my family is not related to jute mills, I have touching memories about it. Few years back, two of our tenants flee away at night , as they just were unable to pay rents. They were good people, we don't curse them for some amount of money. I saw people, whom I know for my childhood, in local market to just hoovering around fishes, they can't buy. I remember that they were the big buyers just few years before.