start all over again

“For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, to be whoever you want to be.

There’s no time limit.

Start whenever you want.

You can change or stay the same.

There are no rules to this thing.

You can make the best or the worst of it.

And I hope you make the best of it.

I hope you see things that startle you.

I hope you feel things you never felt before.

I hope you meet people with a different point of view.

I hope you live a life you’re proud of.

And if you find that you’re not,

I hope you have the strength to start all over again“

I got it from the movie “The curious case of Benjamin Button” Benjamin Button wrote those to his daughter. These sentences give me a lot of strength and courage.

a massacre that ignored by history

In the morning of 18 February 1983, more than 5000 (officially 2191) men, women and children were massacred in Assam (a province of India). Most of the victims were Bangladeshi muslims who had immigrated to the region during the liberation war of Bangladesh. Not a single person has even had to face trial for the gruesome massacre. The report of the massacre has not been made public. Enough evidences make it obvious that local governments of that region belonging to the Indian government (both the Congress and the AGP) have suppressed information about the massacre.

The matter surprise me most that very few Bangladeshi people know about that massacre is not mentioned in anywhere. Not written in our history books. I didn’t know about that massacre till today. It seems they don’t want to flag a dead horse.

Pohela Ashar & Lunar Eclipse

Today was “Pohela Ashar”, the first day of monsoon. According to Bangla calender, the monsoon is divided into two months, Ashar & Sraban. Actually in a tropical region like Bangladesh, there are mainly two seasons, the wet and the dry. And these two months Ashar & Sraban are most wet.

A total lunar eclipse gonna begin at tonight 12:22am Bangladesh standard time. It is 11:18pm evening right now, but the whole sky is damm cloudy. Gonna miss to watch it for sure. Mid or maximum lunar eclipse will happen at 2:13am, and it ends at 4:03am.

23 May, 2011 12:44

Just a heavy thunderstorm passed out. It rained at least 5 times since morning. It’s 12:44 noon right now. I think it’s gonna rain again in few minutes! The heavy heavy clouds coming and gathering fast from north and west.

The young crow kid is too ill or dead. Don’t see any movements and no sounds coming from the nest. I think it is dead because it’s parent not going to the nest after the storm.

crow nest

It has been raining since the night before yesterday. Pre-monsoon rain. Not raining nonstop but at least ten times in a day! It’s like rain 30-40 minutes, then an hour of desistance then it start over again. According to Bangla calendar, it’s still 24 days to monsoon.

There is a crow nest on the tree next to my bedroom window. There were two crow kids. One has died (or gone!). I don’t know what happened to that. Since morning, I see only one there. The remaining one is growing fast.

a lonely kite

Woke up at 3:40am today. Didn’t know how, probably by the noise of thunders. It was raining with frequent thunders. Electricity was gone. I couldn’t sleep again, not for the thunders, cause of scattered thoughts were going on my mind. Then it came to dawning time. I left the bed and prayed. Then went to the veranda next to my bedroom. It was still raining and hazy dark outside. Looking at the sky and rain, my view got stuck on the top of minaret that is more than 70 feet high. A kite was sitting on its railing of it completely drenched with rain. I could see it clearly even in that hazy darkness because kite is big bird, prey. It wasn’t moving. Sometime a bit shaking cause of wind. I knew it won’t move from their till the rain stop. After watching it several minutes, I went to sleep again. Forgot to set up alarm, woke up late and missed the uni bus!

It was my birthday yesterday. There was no celebration. Celebrating birthday of an adult person isn’t usual here. Got a lot of birthday wishes in online, mostly in twitter, four phone calls from friends and a little heavy dinner with rice, chicken curry, beef curry at home.

Cartoons during the liberation war of Bangladesh

Yesterday I went to the “Liberation War Corner” located inside our uni central library. Actually that’s the quietest corner in the library! I go to the library when I get some free time in uni to relax and read book (mostly non-academic books ) My recent interest going on to the books of Syed Mujtoba Ali.

Anyway, while I was looking on the books in shelves, I found a very interesting one “Media and the Liberation War of Bangladesh: Cartoon Volume 1″ by Reaz Ahmed. This first volume brought 350 cartoons together. The cartoons are obtained from magazines, newspaper cuttings and periodicals of 1971. The cartoons in the collection originally came through in Bengali and in English. The surprise comes in knowing that in only nine months of war such a huge volume of cartoons emerged to depict the struggle of the Bengalis for freedom. While reading the book, I took some shots of the cartoons by my mobile camera. Here some of them.

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