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Bangladesh is one of the smallest South Asian countries. It has a high population density, probably second to no other country in the world. Two thirds of its population are living below poverty line. The entire country has become a big slum.. We have corruption in every imaginable way that has taken a permanent root within our own population and society. You just have to forget principles, moral values, honesty and hard work to become a hero in our country. It is a total disintegration of social values and its institutions.

I, as a citizen of Bangladesh, must ask about this grim reality of our present situation to the people of all walks of life in our country. How long we should disguise ourselves and pretend to be a good man, a powerful man, an influential man, a respectable man, a rich man or anything else we usually perceive ourselves to be? Can't we see that we have been wearing a nice and most beautiful suit with a stinking smell on it? Anywhere we go and any place that we visit in the world or even at our own home, we should see how people react to us. It's all terribly stinking smell, Ladies and Gentleman.

We shouldn't look back; we must move on.