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Dhaka
Diary
An
Avid Reader
A
few days ago, I was waiting my turn at the hairdresser's,
when an interesting scene outside caught my attention. An
elderly mobile tea vendor was engrossed in reading the newspapers
stuck on the wall. He was so involved in the activity that
he did not notice a prankster sneaking by and hiding his tea
container. After a while, when the old man completed his reading
and prepared to move from the area, he obviously could not
find his tea container anywhere! He panicked and looked here
and there desperately for his possession when finally the
prankster came to the vendor's rescue and handed the container
over to the real owner. He also advised the vendor to be more
careful in Dhaka City. The tea vendor was clearly relieved
to find his precious belonging and gave the prankster a wide
grin!
Mohammed
Sohel Hara Olympia Palace Restaurant
Stop
Spitting
On
the second day of Ramadan, I had gone to the Hawkers market.
The place was filthy and filled with spit. For some reason,
the ones fasting are always spitting around on the streets,
thinking that one is not allowed to swallow. I lifted my sari
two inches above the ground and walked inside. While I was
walking through the passage, a salesperson, with no hesitation,
spit with all his might! I felt like a dirty trash can. As
I was fasting, I could not bear to stay there any longer.
I think the people around will never learn to keep the surroundings
clean even in the next one hundred years. The DCC must keep
an eye on these miscreants and punish them for such acts of
polluting the environment. Only then can we walk comfortably
in the streets.
Rehana
Ahmed Uttara
Medical
Menace
A
while ago, one of my relatives consulted a doctor, due to
repeated aches in her breasts. After a week, she was shocked
with her medical report, which said that she had breast cancer.
She, for obvious reasons, could not agree with the report
and therefore went all the way to a neighbouring country and
consulted with yet another medical team. To her utter relief,
it turned out to be a very simple problem related to acidity
in her stomach and was not even close to cancer. How many
move cases will there be of misdiagnosis before something
is done?
Shermin
Kaiser, Mirpur
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