By © Muhammad Haque 1825 Hrs GMT London Friday 19 December 2008 is the 28th year of AADHIKAR foundation. AADHIKAR the Weekly was first published on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. This online AADHIKAR is being published from London E1 UK. The battle for rights continues
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What about Bangladeshis after the staged election?
By © Muhammad Haque
2220 Hrs GMT London Sunday 28 December 2008
What about Bangladesh?
What about the people?
What about poverty?
What about hunger?
What about famine?
What about Bangladesh?
What about justice?
What about violence?
What about denial?
What about silence?
What about oppression?
What about bribery?
What about corruption?
What about abuse?
What about fear?
What about the tears?
What about the scars?
What about the promise?
What about the betrayal?
What about the soil?
What about the land?
What about the plants?
What about the trees?
What about the air?
What about the wind?
What about Bangladesh?
What about the children?
What about the infants?
What about the mothers?
What about the forgotten?
What about the landless?
What about the rightsless?
What about the voiceless?
What about Bangladesh?
What about the wealth in nature?
What about the wealth of nature
What about sanctity of nature?
What about listening to the land?
What about the cats, big and small?
What about the elephants?
What about the secrecy?
What about the lies?
What about the looting?
What about the crimes?
What about Bangladesh
On the day after the poll,
Will the people feel freer
Or will new darkness fall?
[To be continued]
Sunday, 28 December 2008
What about Bangladesh on the day after the poll? A political poem by Muhammad Haque
By © Muhammad Haque 1825 Hrs GMT London Friday 19 December 2008 is the 28th year of AADHIKAR foundation. AADHIKAR the Weekly was first published on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. This online AADHIKAR is being published from London E1 UK. The battle for rights continues
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Monday, 22 December 2008
Muhammad Haque examining the dishonest vocabulary used by those who cause and back POVERTY in Britain and beyond
By © Muhammad Haque 1825 Hrs GMT London Friday 19 December 2008 is the 28th year of AADHIKAR foundation. AADHIKAR the Weekly was first published on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. This online AADHIKAR is being published from London E1 UK. The battle for rights continues
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Muhammad Haque examining the dishonest vocabulary used by those who cause and back POVERTY in Britain and beyond
POVERTY in Britain and the poverty of the Brown-fronted Blairing regime that is maintaining poverty in the UK today more brazenly than Brown would ever admit
By © Muhammad Haque
0920 hrs GMT
London Monday 22 December 2008
Talking about ‘child poverty’ by definition excludes discussion of poverty as a whole. That is why the correct term to use is ‘poverty’. Not just ‘child poverty’. So why do the Blaired ‘professionals’ holding the positions on ‘combatting’ ‘poverty’ refuse to use the single word poverty? The answer is to be found in the fact that they are essentially in denial. And in deep ignorance. The half of their dishonest ‘term’ is on many levels misleading. ‘Child’ may sound like the call for care, compassion and delicacy with the fragility of the vulnerable. But this is a confidence trick. Like so many of the terms they use, this [‘child poverty’] is to dress themselves up as a party [with a small p] dedicated to upholding the needs and the rights of the ‘more vulnerable and needy’. The word ‘child’ carries so much instant positive recognition of all things good or at least innocent.…. As different from the whole family.. The neighbourhood. The community. The population... That would be a daunting reality. That one the peddlers of concern on ‘child poverty’ dare not face up to, let alone deal with...
When the entire population is organised in a way that CAUSES poverty, imposes poverty, adds to poverty, it is little wonder that children in it are in poverty.….
By the population I am here referring to that part of the population that is the target of poverty causation, poverty imposition, poverty addition...
The parts that are to be found in the inner cities in the UK.
There are people in poverty in the other parts of the UK populations and conurbation.
But the incidence, the spread, the perpetration and the persistence of poverty in the inner cities areas are so high, frequent and noticeable that a discussion of poverty in Britain today would be done more comprehensively and accurately by looking at the inner cities than by looking at the other areas where poverty also does exist.
Tower Hamlets in the East End of London is of course the London borough that contains most of the features of inner city poverty.…
[To be continued]
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Muhammad Haque examining the dishonest vocabulary used by those who cause and back POVERTY in Britain and beyond
POVERTY in Britain and the poverty of the Brown-fronted Blairing regime that is maintaining poverty in the UK today more brazenly than Brown would ever admit
By © Muhammad Haque
0920 hrs GMT
London Monday 22 December 2008
Talking about ‘child poverty’ by definition excludes discussion of poverty as a whole. That is why the correct term to use is ‘poverty’. Not just ‘child poverty’. So why do the Blaired ‘professionals’ holding the positions on ‘combatting’ ‘poverty’ refuse to use the single word poverty? The answer is to be found in the fact that they are essentially in denial. And in deep ignorance. The half of their dishonest ‘term’ is on many levels misleading. ‘Child’ may sound like the call for care, compassion and delicacy with the fragility of the vulnerable. But this is a confidence trick. Like so many of the terms they use, this [‘child poverty’] is to dress themselves up as a party [with a small p] dedicated to upholding the needs and the rights of the ‘more vulnerable and needy’. The word ‘child’ carries so much instant positive recognition of all things good or at least innocent.…. As different from the whole family.. The neighbourhood. The community. The population... That would be a daunting reality. That one the peddlers of concern on ‘child poverty’ dare not face up to, let alone deal with...
When the entire population is organised in a way that CAUSES poverty, imposes poverty, adds to poverty, it is little wonder that children in it are in poverty.….
By the population I am here referring to that part of the population that is the target of poverty causation, poverty imposition, poverty addition...
The parts that are to be found in the inner cities in the UK.
There are people in poverty in the other parts of the UK populations and conurbation.
But the incidence, the spread, the perpetration and the persistence of poverty in the inner cities areas are so high, frequent and noticeable that a discussion of poverty in Britain today would be done more comprehensively and accurately by looking at the inner cities than by looking at the other areas where poverty also does exist.
Tower Hamlets in the East End of London is of course the London borough that contains most of the features of inner city poverty.…
[To be continued]
Saturday, 20 December 2008
The week that was supposed to mark the freedom of Bangladesh was at least in the West, marred by a tussle over another 'freedom'..
By © Muhammad Haque 1825 Hrs GMT London Friday 19 December 2008 is the 28th year of AADHIKAR foundation. AADHIKAR the Weekly was first published on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. This online AADHIKAR is being published from London E1 UK. The battle for rights continues
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2130 Hrs GMT London Saturday 20 December 2008:
'News' from Bangladesh this weekend has been about the 'freedom' 'granted by a British court in London' to a 'Bangladesh-born' 'British doctor' [!!!!!] from the 'drugging and gagging' by her own parents and family in or around the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka! The photographs, at least some of the photographs, that have appeared on the prominently displayed newspapers and TV screens, have been commented on elsewhere in not quite positive terms. It has been attributed to the fact that she is of a forgiving nature and has forgiven both her parents. They are still her parents, she has been reported to have said. Perhaps in due course she will be presenting another dimension of what can only be described as an ordeal she has claimed to have suffered at the hands of her parents. several comments have already been made about the events. One commentator has even stated that the case has been baffling!……
I am going to start by putting on the record my apprehension that some people may even suggest that the reported events were not all credible.… In fact the initial ‘coverage’ of the events concerned by the so-called Bangladeshi media in the UK has been one of unmistakable detachment. Those very elements have now [at Saturday 20 December 2008] changed their tunes and have established a sort of factuality in their coverage of some of the activities following the reported victim’s return to the UK.…There is a historic feature at work in the UK-based and allegedly Bangladeshi print media... They take months before they catch up on what is going on inside the Bangladeshi community in the UK itself. On some aspects they don’t do so until after years have passed by... On other issues they NEVER recognise the facts EVER AT ALL... I shall return to this theme in the course of this commentary... in the next day or two... If it turns out that there was any evidence of exaggeration or fiction imported into the alleged allegations.…. Here I am thinking VERY MUCH of what the USA had witnessed around a story ….in the 1980s.….
.The story was utter sensation as it hit the then media... In the age before mass access to the internet and way before mass tv channels.... [To be continued]
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2130 Hrs GMT London Saturday 20 December 2008:
'News' from Bangladesh this weekend has been about the 'freedom' 'granted by a British court in London' to a 'Bangladesh-born' 'British doctor' [!!!!!] from the 'drugging and gagging' by her own parents and family in or around the Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka! The photographs, at least some of the photographs, that have appeared on the prominently displayed newspapers and TV screens, have been commented on elsewhere in not quite positive terms. It has been attributed to the fact that she is of a forgiving nature and has forgiven both her parents. They are still her parents, she has been reported to have said. Perhaps in due course she will be presenting another dimension of what can only be described as an ordeal she has claimed to have suffered at the hands of her parents. several comments have already been made about the events. One commentator has even stated that the case has been baffling!……
I am going to start by putting on the record my apprehension that some people may even suggest that the reported events were not all credible.… In fact the initial ‘coverage’ of the events concerned by the so-called Bangladeshi media in the UK has been one of unmistakable detachment. Those very elements have now [at Saturday 20 December 2008] changed their tunes and have established a sort of factuality in their coverage of some of the activities following the reported victim’s return to the UK.…There is a historic feature at work in the UK-based and allegedly Bangladeshi print media... They take months before they catch up on what is going on inside the Bangladeshi community in the UK itself. On some aspects they don’t do so until after years have passed by... On other issues they NEVER recognise the facts EVER AT ALL... I shall return to this theme in the course of this commentary... in the next day or two... If it turns out that there was any evidence of exaggeration or fiction imported into the alleged allegations.…. Here I am thinking VERY MUCH of what the USA had witnessed around a story ….in the 1980s.….
.The story was utter sensation as it hit the then media... In the age before mass access to the internet and way before mass tv channels.... [To be continued]
Muhammad Haque commentary on the 'forced marriage in Bangladesh', is due later today Saturday 20 December 2008
On the 28th year of AADHIKAR
By © Muhammad Haque 1825 Hrs GMT London Friday 19 December 2008 is the 28th year of AADHIKAR foundation. AADHIKAR the Weekly was first published on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. This online AADHIKAR is being published from London E1 UK. The battle for rights continues
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By © Muhammad Haque 1825 Hrs GMT London Friday 19 December 2008 is the 28th year of AADHIKAR foundation. AADHIKAR the Weekly was first published on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. This online AADHIKAR is being published from London E1 UK. The battle for rights continues
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Friday, 19 December 2008
Muhammad Haque commentary on the 'forced marriage in Bangladesh', is due later this evening
By © Muhammad Haque 1825 Hrs GMT London Friday 19 December 2008 is the 28th year of AADHIKAR foundation. AADHIKAR the Weekly was first published on Monday 19 December 1980 from London E1 UK. This online AADHIKAR is being published from London E1 UK. The battle for rights continues
What does the 'Bangladeshi community' in the UK and in the rest of the West do?
What does the 'Bangladeshi community' in the UK and in the rest of the West do?
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