Our unique country

Has anyone ever wondered at the uniqueness of our country? It is the only country in the world where:
1. Women are generally discriminated against, marginalized, prone to violence, rape and murder, flogged, beaten, etc., without any justice and sometimes without any reason, but where some are returned repeatedly to rule the country even when they have proved inept to do so in the past.
2. Vital rivers, waterways, canals and lakes are filled in, occupied, and owned through fake documents over 50 years old and then with a great show of action, some unlucky perpetrators (read non-greasy palms) get their structures smashed before everything goes back to square one again.
3. High- rises are built in the fly path of airports without any compunction while thumbing their noses at the authorities.
4. Car and bus drivers are convinced that the longer they sound their raucous horns, the quicker the traffic jam in front will dissipate.
5. Trees usually grow everywhere without any care if somebody plants it, but after years of “Tree Planting Months”, we have only 7-8% forests to show for it and that too mostly in the Forest Dept's cooked up documents.
6. Our 'talented multi-millionaire cricketers' regularly get bashed up by novices and return to the country saying we have learnt a lot and we are improving. The cricketing powerhouses better watch out next time.
7. Finally, we have the President of our Apex Chamber who, while solemnly appraising the nation on the budget, states that having a private car is not a luxury. In a city where there is only 6-7% road space and that too in deplorable condition, able to accommodate at best about 1.5-2 lac gas guzzling monstrosities at peak hour against the 3.5-4 lac already on the road and another 50,000 due to be unloaded for our elected 'pensioners', the 0.1% of our population who own cars, can only sit in them (albeit in air-conditioned comfort) and watch the pedestrians, rickshaws, etc., streaming past. Right, Mr President of FBCCI, private cars on Dhaka's roads are not a luxury. For those who use them, it is sheer egoist folly.