Roadside Romeos kill Pinkies
Monday, 25 January 2010
Nashpia Ahmed Akand Pinki, a class-nine student of Shyamoli Ideal School and College in Dhaka, was found dead last Tuesday (January 19) hanging from the ceiling fan of her bedroom with a sari twisted around her neck at her uncle's residence in the city. Pinky left a suicide note where she wrote: "Murad, a driver who resides in the area, verbally abused her and slapped her when she went to a nearby pharmacy to buy some medicines."
Teachers and students of Pinki's school formed a human chain in front of their institution and demanded exemplary punishment of the tormentor whose teasing and misconduct led Pinky to commit suicide.
Acting on secret information police arrested the suspected provoker Murad Mridha, 19, from near the SA Paribahan office in Khulna city on Saturday morning.
Now the question is who or what is responsible behind 15-year old Pinki's suicide? Is only Murad, the 19-year old driver, responsible? Then, why should Murad torment an innocent girl?
I think Murad felt inspired to be a 'Roadside Romeo' after he watched an Indian movie which started with the hero at his young age eve-teasing a school girl---the usual flirtatious beginning of a courtship followed by dances in a nearby park, culminating into a happy marriage and punctuated by some thorny chapters like police chasing the hero or the father of the heroine reprimanding the boy.
Unless we create a good environment in our society and unless our writers and cinema producers teach lessons on how an adult can win a lady in a decent manner many more Murads will be teasing school-going girls and Pinkies will be committing suicides.
M. A. Khan
Dhaka
E-mail : maswood@hotmail.com
Teachers and students of Pinki's school formed a human chain in front of their institution and demanded exemplary punishment of the tormentor whose teasing and misconduct led Pinky to commit suicide.
Acting on secret information police arrested the suspected provoker Murad Mridha, 19, from near the SA Paribahan office in Khulna city on Saturday morning.
Now the question is who or what is responsible behind 15-year old Pinki's suicide? Is only Murad, the 19-year old driver, responsible? Then, why should Murad torment an innocent girl?
I think Murad felt inspired to be a 'Roadside Romeo' after he watched an Indian movie which started with the hero at his young age eve-teasing a school girl---the usual flirtatious beginning of a courtship followed by dances in a nearby park, culminating into a happy marriage and punctuated by some thorny chapters like police chasing the hero or the father of the heroine reprimanding the boy.
Unless we create a good environment in our society and unless our writers and cinema producers teach lessons on how an adult can win a lady in a decent manner many more Murads will be teasing school-going girls and Pinkies will be committing suicides.
M. A. Khan
Dhaka
E-mail : maswood@hotmail.com