Facebook and a rickshaw-puller

A few days ago, I encountered an interesting incident. I was looking for a public transport but I got none and most of the buses were overcrowded. I therefore decided to take a rickshaw and soon I found one. But the rickshaw-puller was taking a long time to start and was fiddling with his smartphone. When I told him that I was getting late, he asked me to wait as he was logging from his facebook account.

I was really amazed at the creation of Mark Zuckerburg, the man behind Facebook. He has been able to touch more lives than he had ever imagined. Soon I learnt that the rickshaw-puller has completed his primary education and had been learning to browse internet on his Smartphone. The internet has given him a glimpse of what education can do in a man's life. He also said resolutely that he would make sure his children were not deprived of education so that they can get out of the vicious circle of poverty and backwardness. I was very happy that a poor rickshaw-puller was deriving great pleasure and learning from the internet and learning many things which would not have been possible without the marvel of modern science, particularly the information technology.

Mohammed Sohel hara

Bonosree, Dhaka.

sohelhara@hotmail.com