Reports on Tarique

Some newspapers carried out a front-page report on Tarique Rahman's injury along with his wife's tearful picture. I was in a coffee shop yesterday, when I came across a group of people expressing their sadness witnessing the 'million dollar' picture. What amazed me most is that nobody cared for the person who died because of the vandalism that took place near Dhaka University. The poor man's death was another priceless life the common people give to 'jalao porao' politics. Today, we chant slogans for democracy and perhaps that is why we have the right to burn anything and to kill anybody. Today, the tears of Dr. Zobaida Rahman are much more valuable than the pain and agony the family of Jahangir Alam is going through. What was his fault? He was walking on the roads of a democratic country!
The media carried very few reports on the killing of Jahangir Alam, a small businessman. I feel ashamed to call myself a citizen of a democratic country, where one has no right to live because somebody else has a right to protest.
Law, news coverage and perhaps emotions are all private preserves of the powerful.
That is why so much fuss about it. We never thought about the three little kids the innocent businessman left behind. Why? Because we all are busy thinking about our leader. What a society!