Tall talks in DU

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NO university of this country has any place among the top 500 universities of the world, according to this year's academic ranking of world universities. Shame to the tall talkers of the Dhaka University, who boastfully claim that theirs is the Oxford of the East. It's sad for us that no university of the world's ninth largest nation, which is ours, could not still academically excel distinctively to be one of the best 500 universities.
According to the list, the Harvard University is the distinguished best, which occupies the first place. Another US university--Stanford, is the second. UK's Cambridge University occupies the fourth position. Fifty-four among the first one hundred are US universities and 11 belong to the UK. The Tokyo University holds the 20th position. India's best university, the Indian Institute of Technology, occupies the 305th position.
What, however, makes the list a suspect for bias is the mention that US President George W Bush is an ex-student of famed Harvard. Professor Richard Dawkins of the Oxford University asked a few years ago: Would you do business with a company that devoted an entire year to little else than choosing its new CEO from the strongest field of the world and ended up with Bush? A university that offered a degree to a junk student like Bush, who has defamed his great country in his seven and a half years until now in the White House, must either confess that it's not a good university or that he earned his degree by fluke. There too, he might have manipulated answer-scripts and other papers as he did with US official documents to establish that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction -- the devil's clue for creating a cobweb to justify the invasion of that unfortunate country.
Siddiqur Rahman
Ex-student
Dhaka University