How history will remember Dr. Yunus

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History will not remember how much salary Dr. Yunus earned after he turned 60. History will not remember how our Nobel laureate was pestered by the government. In fact, history will not bother about the kind of embarrassment this man had to go through. What history will remember is, how he developed the ability and power of the rural people, how the acts of one person changed the course of their lives. As a nation, we should be ashamed that we are silently watching Dr. Yunus being denounced. Of course, we have no power to do anything because we are living in the prison where the government is the warden, and we are shackled at the whims of our utility providers, inept officials and visionary 'patriots'. I often can't help but think, where are the courageous citizens of Bangladesh? Had they all died in the Independence War?