Readers’ Forum
I congratulate Bangladesh Football Federation President Kazi Salahuddin and Indian Football Development Committee Chairman Nita Ambani for their successes in bringing football back to the stadium. Waves of crowds in the friendly matches against Sri Lanka at Sylhet and Jessore last month and against Japan U-21 in Dhaka last week, and in all the matches of Indian Soccer League proved that football is alive and it needs proper care only.
May be someday or the other, both India and Bangladesh will travel far from home to the delight of the nation. We wait for that day.
Khurshid Ara
Pabna
Morality vanished
Thomas Hobbes wrote a book named Leviathan (Sea Monster), pleading for absolute monarchy as human life was ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. Everybody was self-centered and nobody bothered about others and their interests. The law of self-preservation meant rule of brute.” This English philosopher died in 1659 AD, but what he wrote still persists with slight change. Nowadays, human life is social, avaricious, nasty, brutish and long. Absence of ethics and morality and toleration has made some people deadly and cruel. The death of 49 maid-servants in 2013 and 37 in 2013 is the reflection of what Hobbes wrote in his book Leviathan.
We want justice and capital punishment to the murderers and oppressors.
Abdullah Akber
Dhaka
