Lake recovery?

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A front page photograph and the article alongside; published recently in a local English daily, tells the tale of the Gulshan lake. Sad for many, but happy news for some too! The facts were all there in the article, but facts unfortunately gets trampled under the acts, perpetrated with blessings of the power that-be. While we talk about recovering the lake, they are busy recovering the land from the lake! That recovery is most attractive for them, the veiled Mafia. For them easy money matters!
For them, the lake is a waste of potential land, waiting to be recovered; the land that brings gold as land prices have skyrocketed. Why leave it to the fishes when wealth beckons! For them, "the more they get, the more they want".
Court directives, for them is irrelevant. As far as they are concerned these are but words on paper. Between the words, and the realities on the ground, these are far apart, and they believe that no court can bridge this gap! After all the powerful and rich have their own laws, which mostly override the law of the lawmakers since law-breakers have both, brawn and the boon, to overcome it all!
So why bother for court's directives? Directives will come, and directives will go. They believe that direct cash supersedes all and everything! Lands are theirs to keep and enjoy. Should any one meddle too much, they will give him/her a piece of the lake, all filled up. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the name of the game! Take it, or leave it!

A resident of Gulshan
Dhaka.