Bastobota without reality chara

Bash kore gechi shaper Guhai; shabdhan hote

shikhini kokhono; koto bishodhor boshi-eche daat, khote

cheye geche deho, bishe bhore geche naali

bish ke korechi rokto, khoto ke shonali rupali.

                            Humayun Azad (28 April, 1947-12 August, 2004)

Osama bin Laden’s Desire

An arrested Pakistani millionaire testified that he met Osama bin Laden twice in his life. He owns a news agency and took Laden’s interview in 2 occasions. He said he was impressed by Laden’s attitude and al-Qaida leader called himself “a prophet” on several occasions.

Big shots get away by saying something like this, where else Afghan citizens faces death sentences for converting into Christianity.

 

The India Bush did not see.

The US President visited India in Late February. Indian authority convinced Bush with all the good things they posses or tend to posses. There is another India within the fast growing global leader which posses 300 million poor people. Farmers in Maharasthra still hang banners offering their kidneys for sale; hungry parents in the barren fields of Orissa sell their children for the price of a bag of grain; millions roam the country in pursuit of work, trading the want of the village for the indignity of bonded labor- Such is the burden of poverty for more than a quarter of India's 1.1 billion people. It's the nation with the largest number of poor people in the world.

India is growing at an average of 6.8 percent since 1994. In just a decade, the land of lepers and snake charmers was supplanted by one of tech tycoons and MTV veejays though half of all children remain malnourished, half of women remain illiterate, more than 80 percent of the countryside lacks access to a telephone or a toilet.

 

Mafia in New York

As a former mafia killer, Eddie Lino must have known his death might always be around the corner. But he wasn't expecting it to find him in retirement, on a Brooklyn freeway in 1992, when two police officers reportedly pulled him over in his Mercedes. Maybe he thought he was about to get a ticket for speeding. Instead, prosecutors allege, one of the officers pulled out a gun and killed him on the spot.

Tales of police officers corrupted by the mob are hardly unheard of in New York. But the case of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, whose long-awaited trial opened in Brooklyn yesterday, has stunned even seasoned investigators. Eddie Lino's murder - in which Mr Caracappa, now 64, is alleged to have pulled the trigger, earning the duo $75,000 (£45,000) from their mafia boss - is only one of eight in which they are implicated; apart from murder the list includes racketeering, kidnapping, obstruction of justice and money-laundering.

 

Koran outsells

The holy Koran outsells all other books displayed at the weeklong 'Book Festival' in India. Koran was the best selling book in the Festival held in the capital city of a Christian dominated state, officials said.

 

Love for Jazz music

Kim Cheol-woong, a North Korean citizen trained in classical music heard jazz piano for the first time while studying overseas and was fascinated. In the North Korean communist regime, playing Jazz music is prohibited. So one night in 2001, he made the dangerous trip across the Tumen River into China and reached Yanbian city. After 2 years he managed to reach South Korea and still lives there. Kim now teaches music at a university in Seoul, and dreams of playing at New York's Carnegie Hall. Many North Koreans who flee the country seek asylum from hunger and oppression, but Kim's father was a high-ranking military official and lavishly provided for his family. He really left the country for his love towards Jazz music.

Hero comes home

US Air Force pilot Alvin E. Crane Jr. was flying a T-6F, a World War II-era inside North Korea 55 years ago. His plane was hit by bullets and before the plane crashed, he managed to parachute out. Then he died possible by the North Korean soldiers. His body has been transferred to the US recently.

Bir Srestho Motiur Rahman is still sleeping in Pakistani territory, the land he hated the most. None of the Governments succeeded to honor him in Bangladesh territory. Fate!