Why we need more and more ‘red light’ areas

It is undeniable that in recent times, we’ve, very deplorably, witnessed incidents of rape and violence towards women. This is evident when one opens any daily newspaper on any day of the week. There are reports of rape, gang-rape, molestation and torture reports, domestic violence that includes sexual assaults and the likes. In some parts of the country or in other we see them taking place on a  daily basis. This can’t continue for long. 

Recently, we saw a particularly heart breaking incident where a father committed suicide along with his raped daughter because he couldn’t lodge a case in the local police station. In a more recent mishap, two university girls were raped by their ‘friends’ in a party thrown in a hotel in Banani. Rape seems to be an epidemic now in today’s Bangladeshi society. 

The resulting procedures to seek justice for these crimes are murky, time consuming, cumbersome and expensive. Plus, there are physical and psychological traumas involved for the victim in wanting to go through such detailed and often illogical processes of filing a case, doing medical examination and finally facing a disapproving society which, very interestingly, doesn’t seem to accept the fact that rape is like any other social offense and it doesn’t necessitate the victim to lead a life of a social outcast. But as ‘prevention is better than cure’, we might think of ideas to try to prevent, or at least drastically reduce the likelihood of, our girls being raped. 

How about setting up ubiquitous brothels all over the country? This would ensure employment of girls who might be interested in taking this up as a profession,  a lucrative one, as well as guarantee satisfaction of sexually aroused men who simply have no other means of satisfying their physical need. Such customers would pay at a standard rate and buy sex just as they buy any other commodity. 

Such brothels might be established in each area and they would sell sex just as a grocery store sells bottles of water or a bar of chocolate. The objective of such arrangement would be to leave no man sexually unsatisfied on the roads so that they don’t pursue other women and disturb or harm them.

This could very well be a good solution to this particular problem of rape in society.    

What's with a foreign degree in English?

I often find people doing their B.A. or M.A. in English, and then quickly go abroad to fetch another M.A. and come back. Most often, they go to places like India, Malaysia, Singapore, UK and Australia, and as they return home to the local job market, they find themselves in high demand as they initially expected. It has become a sure shot of laying hold on English faculty positions in the Departments of English in the private universities. The employers, also, hold people holding a 'foreign' degree in high esteem and prioritize them over other local candidates with national (therefore, mediocre?) degrees. Nobody knows why this is so, and there could be the following questions in the offing:

a) Do the Foreign Degree Holders (henceforth 'FDH') outperform the Local degree holders ('LDH') in the job interviews?

b) Are the FDH found to perform better than the LDH in the classrooms?

c) Are the FDH found to possess better hold on the subject than the LDH?

In order to find answers to these questions, extensive research is necessary. As these are important questions for the academia, mere social construct or gut feeling shouldn't be the rule of thumb. A foreign degree cannot and should not necessarily be deemed superior or preferable than a local degree of equal rank, and vice versa.

It's time we debunked this myth and recruit on the basis of merit and performance.    

Rickshaw Rules

Yes, it does.

Anyone who goes out in any of Dhaka city's streets would see them dominated, if not infiltrated, by this cheap and convenient vehicle namely Rickshaw. This is the vehicle of the low and middle class citizens who need to run errands now and then. Rickshaws are affordable, as stated earlier, comfortable as it's open and roomy, and they cause zero pollution as they're pulled by the rickshaw pullers manually. It is a great public transport, except that it is completely unruly and indisciplinable, causing traffic congestion and delays for other fast moving vehicles.

It is observed that these rickshaw pullers have no sort of training or sense of traffic rules whatsoever. Yet, how are they allowed to take passengers and run the rickshaws are incomprehensible to many. They park at their whim, stop whenever and wherever they like and ask whatever fare they deem appropriate. They brave the streets as if they are the only vehicle on roads and are often seen to be taking the first or second lane, making buses and cars tailgating them very helplessly. As a result, the fast moving vehicles have to blow their horns loudly, thereby causing further noise pollution.

What needs to be done with the rickshaws:

1. The rickshaw pullers are to be given training on traffic rules and regulations. They are to go in one line, and never opt for the first or second lane unless the lanes are completely free.

2. They should park at the side of the roads for taking passengers or for rest. In no circumstances can they park or place their vehicles haphazardly. They should also be cautious of choosing the parking place and avoid parking in the turns and near the roundabouts.

3. They are to take passengers if they are out; which is to say, they can't deny taking passengers one after another.  

4. They should run preferably forming one line and should always keep an eye at the back while changing lanes. Overtaking and change of lanes are to be made with extreme caution and care as they don't have a rear view of the upcoming vehicles.

5. They should ask reasonable fare and shouldn't overcharge.

The passengers should also take care to ensure that the rickshaw pullers abide by the traffic rules. They should instruct and direct the pullers if need be.

As we have limited roads and overflowing people and vehicles, it is of utmost importance that we take care and be highly disciplined with the overall movement on roads.    

Is Dhaka falling from a cliff?

We have reasons to believe that it does.

It is somewhat alright as long as you stay indoors, provided you have arranged for uninterrupted power supply to keep the air conditioner running. But the moment you step outside, you face untold sufferings and harassment.

The first reaction you'd get on almost any street in Dhaka is: 'Why are all the stuff on the walkway?' There's virtually no space for people to ply through on the street, for they are being occupied with stalls, building materials, even parked vehicles. Walkways that don't have all these somehow, are badly broken. And whatever is broken in Dhaka remains so, for an awful long time.

So the people are forced to walk along the walkway on the side of the road instead of on the walkway. And the reaction to that is sonorous, as helpless drivers have to honk to clear out the road for them. The resulting situation ends up in a traffic jam, with vehicles honking and people flooding the streets and walkways being occupied by what not.

Very often I see some men in uniform and carrying a short stick stand at the crossroads and beckon as if trying to control traffic flow. It is hard to believe that they are actually traffic police and are trying to regulate vehicles with the aid of that short stick in their hands, as if driving cattle. I would argue that even shepherds are more facilitated in their job, and this is straight from the Middle Ages.

The rickshaws are another interesting vehicle in Dhaka. They seem to have no regard for any other on the roads, and move from lane to lane. Being the slowest mover, they ought to have stuck to the third lane throughout; instead, the rickshaws weave along, sometimes on the first lane, leading Premios and sometimes on the second lane. They slow down the general mobility on roads and also cause congestion and delays, whereas, the rickshaws are supposed to be very affordable and desirable vehicle: cheap, pollution free and comfortable. All they need, the rickshaw pullers, is some training and advice to perform most optimally on the roads.

Illegal parking and driving from the opposite side are two big vices in Dhaka. They are the reasons for traffic jams, haphazardness and delays. A stern, quick and effective fining system should be chalked out to tackle these and other foul activities on roads.

I often see some men consulting garbage in broad daylight, trying to load them in open trucks to carry them out. This is also an unmistakable mark of barbarity and a sure sign of inefficiency. Garbage aren't to be dealt with in the day time; instead this work is for the late night time when there's very less traffic and people on roads. I don't believe this would take more than common sense to understand and realize this fact.

As Dhaka is a mega city, it cannot be governed and maintained by conventional forces; it needs specially trained forces with modern equipment to keep things tidy and in order. Keeping Dhaka mobile, clean and therefore functional is more important than any other developmental work in the country. Dhaka is the heart of the country, if the heart freezes, the other activities suffer greatly.

With regard to administration and governance of the city of Dhaka, some radical decisions are to be taken immediately. The concerned authority should either 'work' properly, quickly and honestly or be replaced by more efficient and functional body of workers. I guess this is true for any work anyone does anywhere in the present world today.

We need to save people and the city of Dhaka from the clutches of worthless policies and half hearted efforts. It is time we brought some professionalism and seriousness with regard to maintaining our city.   

Using Twitter at a canter

Twitter is a fascinating tool for many purposes. It is not only a microblogging site or a social networking platform, rather it's an indispensable tool for professional purposes now. We follow hundreds and thousands of people and organizations to get their feeds and what's latest with them. But sometimes, if not most of the times, it gets tiring and fatiguing to check out all those hundreds of tweets.

Though we can use Twitter's list method to categorize the tweets, we would still have to check out each of them. Unless there's a text to voice feature added to Twitter, there's no escaping that.
But we can sift through tweets much faster and get to the ones that are most relevant and useful for us if we read them vertically rather than horizontally. That is, instead of beginning to read tweets to find out the contents of them, we drive our searching gaze vertically and read the first word of each tweet, from up to downwards, to ascertain its contents. If the initial wording of a particular tweet catches our attention, we take the second word and so forth until we decide whether to read the entire piece or not. This way, we can quickly and efficiently ply through numerous tweets to reach to the ones we care for.

Happy tweeting!

Disengagement for Productivity: Why we'll increasingly need it

Today's world is a global village. Everyone who can and afford to, is increasingly connected via internet. This technological encroachment has revolutionized how we spend our time now and how we entertain ourselves. It has shown us ways to learn in a new and diverse ways. It facilitates connections among people and gives a new dimension to social interaction. But there's a latent and inbuilt risk involved in this constant connected mode.

Namely 'distraction'. Our social media today is not only to keep in touch with our friends and family, rather it is a feed of our own choice. We subscribe and return to it to benefit from the channels, pages and services they constantly throw at us. We stay hungry for what's going on in the lives of the people we care, and in the world around. Ironically, we are not satiated in the end. Those modicum of information, that mixture of feeds only leave us more hungry and impatient.

At the end, exposed to information of various kind and nature, which is also insufficient and inadequate to quench our thirst, we grow impatient and agitated and repeatedly visit different sites and feeds for what we often don't know ourselves. As a result, it leaves us bewildered and dissatisfied. This is why disengagement is the name of the game in today's world.

We have to know when to engage and when disengage. In order to retain and increase our productivity and get rid of restlessness and stress that results from 'browsing' through materials and information, we actively should decide to disengage and disconnect to return to our priorities and academic/ professional activities. If we fail to disengage and return to 'life' and whatever we love to do, we will ever deviate and derail our attention, goals and ambitions.

So, disengagement is vital for increased productivity and fulfillment in life and work.    

Staying in one's hometown for a lifetime, and not moving

In today's globalized world, we witness people often relocating to different cities or countries for the purposes of education, jobs and even for 'better living conditions'. It is almost an indicator of your 'success' if you roam around the world for whatever reasons, and bring 'gifts' for your near and dear ones. While gifts are nice ideas and can be brought from home as well, the idea of 'going global' is a reality. However, one might decide to stay, settle, live out his life in his hometown or country, and that too, for very good reasons as well.

First of all, settling in one's hometown enables him to stay with his people, his parents, friends and relatives. If we consider this transient existence of ours, being with the people you care can be all that you would require.

Secondly, one doesn't have to roam around the world to know about it, in this age of information superhighway. As the popular saying goes, 'If you cannot travel, read', so, reading while staying in the comfort of your friends and relatives could bring in more reward and fulfillment to one's life. This way, you can have the best of both the worlds, i.e. stay home and know about the world.

Finally, if one settles in one's own country and community, one doesn't only stays back, he also contributes directly to the development of his own people, something which is priceless for the people and the country, and for one's personal satisfaction as well.

So, one can live, work and live out one's life in any way one wishes to. But the most satisfactory life and living would require his serving his own people and bring about change to his own country and community.                 

At the university: teaching or researching?

'Hope this year will bring peace and prosperity to the much grieve world!' was the Facebook status of one of my friends. He happens to be a PhD. in English Literature, well employed as an Assistant Professor in the Department. And by virtue of his Doctorate, he features in high profile forums and meetings and have been given some lead in the Department as well. But, as the quotation rightly elucidates, he is, in actuality, a very volatile 'scholar' having decided flaws and shortcomings when it comes to using English as a language. 'Scholars' like him are to be spotted quite frequently in Departments, who claim that they do good research. Therefore, people who do research are not always in possession of comprehensive knowledge, threfore those who have a strong reading habit should only teach in the Department, irrespective of their interest in research. 

However, researchers are important assets of a country. Their research creats new knowledge which in turn is fed into industries to value add products and services. Without good researches, mankind would've stuck in the same place, and societies wouldn't have marched forward and prospered. But since the researchers focus on a very narrow field for research purposes, they understandably don't possess a thorough and sound knowledge on the whole subject matter, quite unlike an engrossing and passionate reader who reads for pleasure and sheer knowledge. 

Since a reader's job is to read compulsively, it is more likely that he would take interest in his teaching assignment and read accordingly to deliver lectures worth the students' time. They would be able to explain better, due to their having an upper hand with the field of knowledge in general, and the teaching/ learning quality in the classroom would improve manifold. This is not to say that researchers will not teach, for they definitely will. But preferably to a limited extent. Their main job in the department would be to do research, coach students with their research projects and publish quality research for the consumption of all stakeholders, including the teachers who, obviously, would read and incorporate the new information in their lectures in classrooms. 

This arrangement of people having genuine knack of research doing mostly just that, and people who love reading and teaching doing so, would increase the research/ teaching objectives of the university, and be most beneficial for all concerned. This would also solve problems arising from the requirements that teachers would 'have to' do research even if it's not their first priority, and that researchers are expected to have a holistic knowledge in the field and teach flawlessly in classrooms.

As mentioned earlier, teaching and researching are both equally important and crucial for the success of any higher seat of learning. A good, well informed teacher can motivate and inspire students in more ways than can be imagined. Similarly, a good researcher plays a vital role in producing new knowledge for the society and mankind. Without needing one to have his finger in both the pies, both the teacher and the researcher can contribute for the benefit of students and the society at large.  

Good fences make good neighbors

Robert Frost said it rightly 101 years ago. Truly good fences make good, responsible neighbors who work together to ensure safety and peace for the entire neighborhood.

This is most in violation in today's world and in recent times. If we start from the beginning of it all: Saddam Hossain in Iraq was a despot and a tyrant. He murdered many people unjustly and finally invaded Kuwait and declared it a part of his own territory. He was a mischief and he didn't uphold the sanctity of the fence as a good neighbor.

But the US didn't do that as well, for that matter. Senior Bush ultimately invaded Iraq, for WMD or whatever, in an effort to redress a wrong with yet another.  

The first violator was Iraq, and that was followed by the US and its 'allies'. But the latter didn't stop there. Soon we saw the fall and devastation in Libya, Afghanistan and finally Syria. Saudi Arabia decided to join the party of 'invasion frenzy' as well, by cobbling up an 'Arab coalition' and starting to bomb Yemen.

Had all the parties maintained and upheld Frost's advisory of keeping to their own fences, none of these would've happened today. Now we have a distraught Middle East, and a perilous Europe, with war cries coming from all around.

That indicates the world must've been in the wrong set of hands. It needs a complete overhauling now.   

Helping others

It happened with me so many times.

It has been happening to me since, I don't know when. Every time it happens, I am heart broken. They say, that a friend in need is a friend indeed. My attitude, though, is not quite influenced by this adage; as I must admit I have found helping others to be one of the most pleasurable things in life. I like to help others, am almost obsessed with it and often do it if it is not much of an inconvenience.

That is alright. But the problem is, that when people notice that you are a helping kind, they take you for granted and use and exploit you. They find out that you are a peculiar case of one wanting to help others, and ask for it whenever they need it. I'm kind of tired of appearing to be a 'fool' in their eyes for this behavior.

And I must admit, receiving some reciprocal help is not entirely undesirable to me. I do expect some help from the other end if I can't help it myself. And my poor heart is, as I said previously, broken when I don't get it.

I sit down and think as to why I should be denied something I so generously give to others? Then I realize that the problem may well lie with me. Because I never made a deal, I volunteered to help. I noticed that whenever a person helps another, he conveys through gestures and tacit hints that he would be expecting the same. But I never did that to anyone. In fact, I try to appear as if my helping is no matter at all, lest the other person feels bad in his heart thinking he might be bothering me.

I always try to appear as if my help is no big deal, and that they couldn't done it themselves had they wished. I didn't want the other person to feel uneasy.

But what I get in return is betrayal. Whenever I expect a little help from my beneficiaries, they turn me down on the floor.

And I am saddned. Sometimes I resolve not to help them or any other person in future, and that that was the last case of charitable service.

But I know a while later that it would be impossible for me to do that. I would still be helping others, for the sake of humanity and for the pleasure it brings me. I feel this is the highest religion an man can follow.

And I would bear the denials and ingratitudes, more often, smilingly.

Motivation to live.

Question: Think about having an abundance of money. Describe what you would do with it.



Answer: 

What if I had an unlimited amount of money at my disposal? Let me make a list of the changes I'd bring to my life:

1. I would buy a very big summer house in Bangladesh, somewhere in my hometown Narshingdi. It would have all the wealth of nature infused with cutting-edge modern amenities. I would have horses, cows, goats at my stables and have armed men to secretly guard me and my family. I would have cars and private jets and copters.

2. I would go for a world tour. I would start with Egypt's Pyramids, then to Turkey's Hegia Sophia, followed by Paris, London, Germany, Greece, Spain, Africa, India and Easter Island. I would stay in nice hotels, taste the best food available and roam about extensively.

3. I would buy myself an astounding number of books, with classics and books on Bangla. My library would have early to latest publications on subjects I'm interested in.

4. I would have one of the best sound systems in my house, with original tracks to play.

5. I would drive some cars and eat the best chocolates as well.

That's about it. That's the limit of my aspirations. I don't want any more.

Whatever you do, you only sponsor

How many times have you thoughtlessly looked at the TV screen where our PM is articulating painstakingly-imagined accusations and schemes of plots against the opposition leader? Or, encountered some dramas on screen on any of the private channels where girls more aggressively try to befriend and enter into love affairs with boys, giving you an impression that the producer might have a propaganda behind the entire design of the theatrical?

All I'm saying is that whatever you do, you only sponsor. If you don't deliberately and determinedly part with things you don't absolutely approve of, you are sponsoring it, unintentionally. That's why I have stopped looking at the TV screen even if it's on before my very eyes, and have learned to work despite the obvious sound of jingles of very uncomfortable commercials. For I have figured out, the moment I pay attention, I give my approval to it; and in return, it takes time off my life.

There are some more things that I have recently stopped sponsoring. For example:

1. Looking at people (coworkers, high-ups, local acquaintances) for whom I don't have a personal respect due to their not being up to par. I simply have started refusing to condescend.

2. Avoiding people who I know only look for their personal advantages, and don't care a fig for others. They are like traders; you talk to them thinking you are socializing, but you waste time, for they are only after using you in the most unpredictable way!

3. Watching anything on TV or in my computer which is not related to my work and my cause. Science fictions, fantasies, high-pitch unreal action dramas - these don't help me. They don't entertain me as well. They don't contribute to the materialization of my work and goal.

Instead, I have started to adhere to the following:

1. Pray. I have decided to become deeply and solidly religious. Plus, it also helps me stay away from vices and makes me a better, compassionate and openhearted individual.

2. Concentrate on my work and on things that would bring me and the people I care for, benefits. Reading a book and carrying a book always in my hand and reading even one sentence, or one word - is immensely and unfathomably more advantageous and rewarding than talking to people who simply suck. No wonder, I remember the saying: 'Life is too short to spend even a second with people that suck.'

3. Answer and give attention to my daily biological necessities in full, id est, sleeping adequately (if not more adequately), eating good food, gearing up and exercising to have good, highly rewarding sex, spending time with wife by taking her out or just lying in bed close together thinking of nothing particular, watching news channels on TV or just browsing channels for some time, doing regular stuff on the Internet etc.

I believe if you want to be a good human being and want to enjoy your life fully, you should immediately STOP sponsoring wrong people and things and START working for things that matter to you and your cause.

I also fear that perhaps humans are a little frivolous by nature, and they unintentionally like to while away their time (you find it present in almost all the animals as well - no wonder man is a social animal!). In order to get rid of this frivolity, we need to consciously make choices and be focus on our goals.

I wish you my kind of life, and please wish me good luck in pursuance of the standards and resolutions that I've decided for myself.

Thanks.

Venez m'aider - a layman's view

The title in French means 'come help me'. This is the phrase from where the verbal code for distress "Mayday" is coined. I feel the hapless workers in Bangladesh are giving us the same signal.

It is estimated that the country currently has 2.5 crore unemployed people with 1.5 crore of them educated. They need work to maintain their family and find a place in the society. But what about the majority of others who are already employed from non-skilled to high-skilled jobs?

Let's start from the grass-root. People working in construction firms, hotels, brick-fields, shops and bazars, as day-laborers. They are unskilled, uneducated people, and to keep their families afloat, they work from dawn to dusk to try to earn their bread. They most often just subsist, dragging their lives through malnutrition, weakness, sickness and rapid deterioration of health conditions. They are human beings taking part in an almost impossible fight every morning. They don't have much to dream about; in fact, they don't dream at all. They are just trying to 'continue' their existence, and that urge is also due  to man's primal instinct for survival.

Poets write poems on them, reporters often quiz them to cover their allotted pages, and some human rights organizations issue statements trying to attract our attention to the distressed condition of these people around us. We sympathize with them, and then go by our own ways.

The state is involved in another farce at this level, with these poor souls and the likes. Often these people are sent abroad to work, and most often, their conditions over there are beyond description. Take, for example, the case of Saudi Arabia. Bangladeshis in millions work there and the flow has never stopped completely. Recently, the Saudi government has initiated another step to recruit more workers of different skills for them.

Is there a statistics to show their standing in this foreign land? Have there been investigations and reports as to how these people are being treated there? And what about various allegations that had sprung up from time to time? Have they been verified?

If an account is started as to how they lead their lives in the face of adversity and suppression, then it would surely be a horrid one. But we are sending these helpless people there, and to some other parts of the world - and they are oppressed, inhumanely treated, overworked, underpaid, harassed in different forms and then kicked back home without any benefits.

Semi-skilled workers have a mentionable salary, but they still have their own, unique problems. They cannot decrease their living standards to go with the scanty salary they receive, neither can they live up to the standard that their job designation requires. Most often, either these people become corrupt or they lead a life full of grief and dissatisfaction.

But what about the educated, skilled and employed ones? Those who are in the public sector are well protected, even when they are not corrupt. But the situations in the private sector are the same story. Overwork, underpay, oppression, harassment, insecurity and very long work-hours. It is slavery in a different garment.

In total, the conditions of workforce of our country are very bad and further deteriorating every day. It will be interesting to monitor how much research in the social studies department is done regarding the issues and the scenario discussed here.

But that much can be safely said, that Labor day is much more than ensuring a holiday for those unfortunate laborers in different positions. It is also not about seminars and political talks and promises. It would best be observed if proper situation is realized and appropriate plan is chalked out to improve the conditions of workers and employees.

Otherwise, labors of Bangladesh will unite one day, and that brute, unpolished force may very well bring about another Bangladesh chapter of French revolution. 

Fukushima: What message it 'emanates' for us.

Today, more and more people want to live in cities. They don't want the dull, languid, laid-back life in the rural areas. Instead, they want more charm and excitement of the city life where you have a well-lighted town with people driving their fashionable cars and fast-food shops spilling out with customers. You have discos, bars, theaters, concerts and shopping malls on busy roads. People dressed well and wearing a variety of perfumes all go about, meet and look at each other, and feel the warmth of hearts. Who would want to take dinner after sunset and go to bed nowadays? After all, who don't want fun and excitement in life?

That's where the problem starts. Our life is pitched up against the life of the planet we live in. To be more clear, just as we have our biological clock in-built in our body that tells us when to take food or go to sleep, so have we a particular schedule for our planet earth. If we observe, we see the sun rising early at around 6 and setting after 12 hours at around 6 in the afternoon. But we get up a couple of hours late and keep awake up to 1 or 2 in the morning, burning our midnight oil and all the other resources that we need in order to keep us going, like electricity, gas etc.

We need to do more in today's world. We need to write, publish and read more, we need to use our laptop more and more, we need our food to be delicious even more. We are researching into new fields of knowledge and studies every day. People are getting more and more knowledgeable every day now, with the contribution of tools like the internet and tv. We have professors lecturing on different topics of interest at the universities and researchers carrying out new and exciting projects in the labs.

We do these all to BETTER our lives. It's true today than ever before, that we need more electricity now, to do MORE in order to produce MORE, to consume MORE. We are not morons but are trapped in this cycle of 'doing more'. And in order to 'do' more, we are taxing our world resources.

We have set up atomic power plants, and look what is happening in Fukushima. The situation is completely out of our control.

If we chart down the pattern of natural disasters, we see there has never been a very quiet phase. We need to admit that this planet of ours has its own way of going about. There will always be some natural disasters in some expected or unexpected forms, in one particular area or in another. We don't need to create problems for ourselves, the planet that we inhabit will take care of it periodically for us. What we ought to do, in order to ensure mutual coexistence, is a synchronized way of living, a kind of livelihood that draws on the facilities of the planet, and at the same time, helps to replenish the sources and strengths of nature in order to restore it to its full strength.

Building nuclear reactors are atomic power stations are not the right way to bring our society forward for any conceivably good reason. These establishments are blithe spots on the body of our planet earth and our planet therefore has every right to retaliate back in response to such heinous acts. Fukushima today sends us this exact message.  Anything can go terribly wrong anytime.

So we should be unitedly concerned in living harmoniously with nature. We should use the daily routine of the planet to our advantage and start and finish our day according to the rising and setting of the lamp of the planet, e.g. the sun. We should limit our wanton and excess desires of trying to live a very exciting life, simply because it exhausts more resources and we  personally can't account for such uses of the same.

We can't just destroy our planet, we don't have the right to do so. We must find ways to have an eco-friendly life steeped in high values and restraints. We can't just be 'fun-loving' vultures, feeding on the corpses of our desires.