Thanks for a noble deed

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I cannot find words to express my deepest thanks to Sir Frank Peters and Barrister Sara Hossain for the noble deed they performed for Bangladesh by ridding it of the corporal punishment scourge.
Although I have lived in Canada for almost 25-years, I have never forgotten the inhumane and disrespectful way I was treated in my village school. There was only one law, the teacher's law, and that was horrific. We, the pupils, were not only deemed to be trash, we were treated like trash. The boys were treated much worse.
I was fortunate enough to have been rescued through the kindness and generosity of an uncle in Toronto and did not suffer as much as most, but I still vividly recall how evil and cruel some of the teachers were to me and to some of my school friends.
One evening my husband (who is a radio broadcaster) downloaded and read on-air the complete article on corporal punishment written by Sir Frank
Peters. The audience was so moved, the switchboard was jammed with calls long after my husband had left the building and the subject was a hot topic for days.
Throughout I was very saddened and ashamed to be a Bangladeshi, but thanks to the aforementioned and Almighty Allah, it's the end of an era and
Bangladeshi children in the future will get to live normal childhoods.

Shumi Chowdhury
Toronto, Canada.
E-mail : shumi.c.chowdhury@gmail.com