Bangladeshi Comic Super Hero

If I imagine a bangladeshi comic super hero, I will love to see a female super hero. Not for I am female but I think womens are mentally more powerfull than a man. Womens are more honest, sincere , hard working and believable. My super hero's dress will be black jense, blue T-shirt and black shoe.She will have short black hair and a sunglass on her eye. Now coming on the super power, she will have the ability to understand the accident before its happening. Reducing corruption, preventing traffic jam, rescuing innocent and punishing bad boys will be her main agenda. If we look at other super hero they have some particular power. The most important power of my super hero’s is time and motion. It means, she will be in the place before the actual time and her speed will be higher than the speed of light. Her name will be ‘The Lady of Brave’. Some characteristics of her are- truthfulness, honesty, dignity, dare, believable and loving. At last I want to say she will create a new era in Bangladesh and will be a mirror of a perfect woman.

Sex issue Through a Bangladeshi Eye

Sex is an issue to keep secret in Bangladesh. Most of the people are not interested to talk about it. Our social cultural structure doesn’t allow this issue to discourse. Because, Bangladesh is a country of high religious value both in Muslims and Hindus and people are expected to obey the social norms and values. It’s true that it is not a matter of any vulgarism, a matter of education or learning. We all know that now-a-days AIDS becomes a big issue to concern. One of the main causes of AIDS is related with sex. I can remember that when I was in school, in that time there was song about AIDS in our media. But they didn’t clearly show how AIDS causes and what the precautions are that people have to take. To raise awareness toward AIDS media used to show a man is in a wheel chair, covered with a white cloth and a black cat is near to him and no one is there. I used to think black cat causes AIDS. The beacon of hope, this situation is changing now in media. Now media are playing a very big role to make protest about this. They have started campaign- If you want to live, you have to know. But unfortunately, this is happening only in media, not in our home. Through it is a big issue; our families are not worried about it. There are a number of families whose are switching off or changing the channel when AIDS or sex related ads come on screen. Parents think that it is harmful for teenagers. But this age is a very crucial time for every human. Teenage is time of physical and mental change and they have to have a clear concept about the relation between a boy and a girl. Unfortunately it is true that many children and teenagers are the victim of sexual harassment. They couldn't share their problem with their parents because parents think it is a secrete issue. However, this is a very unfortunate reality is constructed by our society, in foreign countries they have a particular subject about sex, even in India they have consulted about sensitive issue in their school. But in our country schools always avoid this issue. For this circumstance, young generations don't have any idea what is good or bad and they are being used by many dishonest people. Like video game shops are a big source of exposing sexual video toward the young people. Our society constructs that girls and boys are two different things and from the childhood they perceive them as opposite sex. Many teenagers ruin their life being affected with porn films and sites and I specially think addiction in 'Yaba" 'drug' also caused by this. Even in our university everyday a number of boys visit the porn sites in Internet, they take it as their entertainment. Here family background plays a great role. But this situation has to be changed. We need a change in our society and the family system. Media can play a very big role in this issue. They can disseminate news, programs, dramas etc for teenagers. Schools may keep consultant to talk with students. Nevertheless I am not losing hope and I do believe this situation will change but it will take times.

Review of Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog is really a interesting intellectual comic movie.The director has tried to screen the Hollywood and presidential politics in a very intellectual way. The film showed the relationship between the mass media and USA politics. The film has started with a upcoming election which is going to held after two weeks. In the meantime a sitting president is hit by a sex scandal. The media started to give more time and space about this issue and this issue became the main agenda of public knowledge. The most interesting part starts from there. The sitting president's two aids come to help him. They thought if they can switch the public minds to another serious issue. So they decide to show a war against Albania. Why Albania? Because most of the Americans don't know anything about Albania. For this reason they go to a famous Hollywood director and tell him about this. Then the director create a very sensitive news- a girl with a cat is rushing, a theme song and the slogan. Media create it as their evening news and it has started to become burning issue. Suddenly, they showed the war is over. However it is true or not the television is showing it, so it must be true, must be real. They create a hero in front of the public. In an incident the hero died then they showed they buried him with great respect and guard of honor. At last the president win the election. The Hollywood director want credit for it but they ignore to give him the credit. Then they killed the director. But in TV news they declared the director has died in a massive heart attack. In this movie director Barry Levinson has done a great job. It is true that sometimes media create some vague thing and people believe them. What media is showing that's always not true. They create some programs for their interest. Like the reality shows. Reality shows are constructed by them. the always tell us this show is real but always it is not real. This film is created in 1997 before the Iraq war. If we look at what is America doing in Iraq? we see that in the very first time USA gave a cause that they were attacking Iraq because they have a collection of atomic weapon. The People in USA, they didn't know very much about Iraq. The media showed Iraq to them in a very negative way. Even the BBC didn't show the real thing about the Iraq. In this war USA destroyed very important historical evidence in Iraq. Iraq was culturally and also historically very rich. Not only that the media didn't show the real picture of sexual harassment which had done by the USA and UK soldier. The whole world didn't support this war but they did it for their personal interest. Their personal interest is their politics. The international media is controlled by the west and everything in their is not always friendly for us. So, it is not necessary to always believe what is showing media. Because somethings they construct for the public to run their business.

Reality, Bangladesh and me

What is real to me? Really, its a very complicated question. Do I really know this? In one sense everything is real to me, at the same time everything is may not be real to me. There is a question- who tell us that it is real? Who does construct the reality? Reality means what I believe. Reality means the existence of something. Normally, what we see we always believe them. But sometimes that may be not true. Our parents decide that it is real, it is true, that is not real etc. We are living in a constructed society. The society is constructed by the people. The whole system influence us to believe a thing. So, we can't say that this is real or that is not real. Reality is completely a abstract thought. In our country perspective, reality has many meaning. the first thing is we are Bangladeshi this a big reality. Why I am saying this the cause is that who defined that we are Bangladeshi? We can say, the world is our country. But this not true, every country has its own land area, different types of peoples, different culture etc. The social system is defined that you are Bangladeshi, we are American or others. In Bangladesh most of the peoples are below the poverty line. these peoples are not able to fulfil the basic five needs. Many people don't have any roof above their head, usually they eat two times in a day which is impossible to us. in the previous semester, I spend a whole day with the working people in Dhaka for a multimedia production. I was surprised to saw the construction worker. Any one can't imagine, they work everyday in road which is very hot place. We all know that road construction is really very unsafe. They boil koala for pitch and the place is very hot. I was sweating but they working. I asked them "How do you endure it?" they replied "It is our work and we are bound to do it." This the reality to them and to us also. However, different peoples have different types of reality. Women's are always physically and mentally torched by the man, this is a big reality. This is our social construction. When society defined something for us we can't ignore them, because we can't ignore the rules and regulations. Many people in our country think that women can't do many thing and they are bound to obey some rules which are created by man. But these are not real to me. I think I am a smart girl, I am doing my graduation, I will do what I want to. What people think about me that is not my concern. My concern is I always do what do I believe and what I want to do. This the big reality to me. Living in Dhaka is very difficult. every day we have to face big traffic jam that is a reality. We have solutions but we don't try, we already set our mind that traffic jam, corruption and problem with police are all reality. Now the situation are changing and we are seeing these are not real these are our constructed illusions. To me reality is totally different. I always try to evaluate things with my knowledge and brain. However I don't want to believe everything or any kind of illusions. Reality is nothing another, reality is what I am and my existence.