Shadeshi Bondhu: 01 December 2007

Saturday, December 1, 2007

[Shadeshi_Bondhu] Beauty of Math

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn't it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=12345678987654321

Now, take a look at this...

101%

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:

What Equals 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been in situations where someone wants you to GIVE OVER
100%.

How about ACHIEVING 101%?

What equals 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help answer these
questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

If:

H-A-R-D-W-O-R- K

8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%

And:

K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E

11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%

But:

A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E

1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%

THEN, look how far the love of God will take you:

L-O-V-E-O-F-G-O-D

12+15+22+5+15+6+7+15+4 = 101%

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Re: [Shadeshi_Bondhu] Mone Thakbe Na ?

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[Shadeshi_Bondhu] Regarding the reception program of former Principle of Ideal School and College; Mr. Faizur Rahman and grand reunion 2008.

Dear ex-ideal:

We like to take the privilege of informing you that Ideal School & College Alumni Association is going to arrange a grand reception to former Principle of Ideal School and College, an eminent educationist of the country, Mr. Faizur Rahman and also arranging a reunion of all batches ('73 - '07).

A gala lunch with the participation of alumni & their spouses with children of the institution will follow the daylong program. We are expecting more than Three thousand (3000) alumni of different batches will join in this grand reunion.

The reception & reunion program will be held on 4 January 2008, Friday from 9.00 am to 7.00 pm. at Shahid Shahrawardee Indoor Stadium, Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

It will be highly appreciable, if you cooperate and participate in the reception and grand reunion program .

Your cooperation and wonderful presence would certainly inspire us in order to make the program a grand success.

With best regards,

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[Shadeshi_Bondhu] Celebrating the month of victory - and a note for Barrister Rafiqul Islam

Celebrating the month of victory - and a note for Barrister Rafiqul Islam

The month of December this year should be a month when the nation take some time to introspect and restropect, to make sure that we as a nation celebrate our success and correct our failures.

The best brains has either been killed by the collaborators of Pakistani Army during our 1971 Liberation War. At the very end of our nine month war, the collarborating forces did the worst crime of the last century. The gathered a great number of living intellectuals and killed them in a planned way so the new born nation can not stand upright. The intellectuals carry the burden of concious of a nation and that burden is very high when a nation has come out of a long armed struggle and where many of the best people have been killed in war.

Those who did kill our intellectuals - did it with a very conscious mind. The deserved to be prosecuted without mercy at the end of the war, they deserve so today. However, we know that is something that we as a nation owe to our liberation war heros. No question about it.

With that background, we want to highlight one single issue today. It is not only the loss of our greatest minds, that caused our current situation. There is another side of the story. What good brains we were left with, they did not do their job. They are not doing their job. We want to highlight one such example today. Many of you may disagree with this viewpoint. We are also sending this article out hesitantly - with a hope that this may trigger something good. Sometimes a good brain need some teaser to act. Hopefully, we are doing exactly that.

While watching a biographical programme on the life of Barrister Rafiqul Islam, it seems that he has some share in almost all the important things that our nation has gone through. Some of those roles will make us proud, but many others would give us a feeling which are not so proud. However, he, it seems, has been a witness to most of the important ups and downs of the legal history of our country.

Right now, he is involved in something that one day might prove to be a low point of his career. After being part of many of the important legal proceedings, he was rightfully saying that he wants to retire from the legal profession after finishing the current assignments.

We would like to humbly suggest one thing to this living legend.

Almost all the misgivings of our nations history can be traced back to the great loss of our greatest sons of the land. Intellectuals who can guide the nation was killed - cowardly.

Then there was another set of intellectuals - who did not do their job. You generation failed to do the right thing. You did not punish those cowards - you did not have the time to prosecute the culprits.

Would you come out public and advise the nation (instead of advising the corrupts) about how to proceed about prosecuting the unpunished criminals of 1971?

That would be a service that nation would remember you for.

You do things when Hasina tells you to do, you do things when Khaleda tells you to do.

Would you volunteer your legal advise to the nation about how to proceed in trying the criminals of 1971? Certainly, you would not get money (in disguise) earned through corruption, in this case. Or a share of illicit power which you so cheerfully described - off course, you are good in sugar coating your stories. But try this one this time. Do it out of good conscious. A good chance to prove your critics wrong.

If you thought some of the ideas are worth of your reading time, please forward it to others. If you have an ear to the columinsts in regular traditional media, please forward it to them. If you have an ear to the journalists and news editors of the electronic media, discuss it with them. Hope they would look at the suggestions and give due diligence.

Thanks for your time,

Innovation Line

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Note: This is a freelance column, published mainly in different internet based forums. This column is open for contribution by the members of new generation, sometimes referred to as Gen 71. If you identify yourself as someone from that age-group and want to contribute to this column, please feel free to contact. Thanks to the group moderator for publishing the article.

We have not seen the Liberation War, but we know if we can free the country from corruption first, we will eventually get to other dreams soon. Because of corruption, we could not even get into information highway for years, let alone other dreams!

This is the kind of article for which we started this column. Because of ongoing mess, a gift from our older generation, we often get diverted. Now that it seems some sanity is returning in Bangladesh, we would try to go back to our original plan.

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[Shadeshi_Bondhu] Fwd: [banglaart] Fwd: The Price of Priceless Objects

arham chowdhury <arhamhch@yahoo.com> wrote:

To: arhamhch@yahoo.com
From: arham chowdhury <arhamhch@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:32:12 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [banglaart] Fwd: The Price of Priceless Objects

Shahidul Alam wrote:
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:55:25 +0600
From: "Shahidul Alam" <shahidul@driknet>
To: shahidulnews@drik-amsterdam-01.drik.net
Subject: The Price of Priceless Objects

Stop Press: Ten crates containing rare archeological treasures of
Bangladesh have been bundled out of the national museum and are said
to be bound for Guimet Museum in Paris, via flight AF 6731 (dep: 1205
Saturday 1st Dec 2007). Preparations had been made to secretly remove
the items through a shipment order by the French Embassy made to
Homdbound Packers and Shippers. Trucks and forklift arrive secretly in
museum in early hours of morning. But the news leaked and media
professionals and protesters gathered outside the musuem. Under heavy
police presence Homebound vehicles (Dhaka Metro Umo 11-0814, pho 11
3634, U 14 0187) and Fork lift trucks all bearing "Save The Children
Cyclone and USAID Sidr Emergency Relief " signs were used to remove
the priceless items.

Protesters clashed with police. Shekhar Shashwata was arrested, and
some media professionals roughed up. Eventually protesters were able
to get Shekhar released. Police officer Morshed who made the arrest,
claimed he "knew nothing about what was happening across the road."

The lack of transparency surrounding the exhibition has led to huge
controversies where leading citizens have demanded that the government
and the French Museum allow experts to inspect the items being taken
away. Past allegations of art objects (in 1958 and 1962) having been
taken to France and never returned have increased the suspicion.

While the government has appointed an expert committee to investigate
the matter, in an unprecedented move, government and French Embassy
officials have, without informing members of the committee or the
media, taken the items out of the museum in what resembled a police
conducted museum robbery.

Protesters are asking international media to disseminate the news, and
prevent the artifacts from being taken away in this manner. Bangladesh
is under emergency rule where protests and gatherings of any form are
illegal, and police have wide ranging powers. After a recent unrest at
the universities arrest warrants were issued against 8,300 largely
unnamed people. Teachers arrested after the event are yet to be
released. There have been accusations of torture in custody.

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This was breaking news. Shishir Bhattacharjee, Nisar Ahmed and Rahnuma
were racing against the clock. The pukur churi (daylight robbery,
lit:pond stealing) had to be stopped. Bangladesh is awash with
conspiracy theories and I needed to be convinced that something
irregular was really taking place. A major exhibition of Bangladeshi
heritage in a well-known western museum seemed a good thing. I wanted
hard facts. Facts emerged, and eventually tumbled out.

The issue in question was a proposed exhibition at the Musée National
des Arts Asiatiques - Guimet, in Paris, where some of the most prized
archeological objects collected from the five major museums would be
on display in an exhibition announced on the Museum website as
"Masterpieces of the Ganges delta. Collections from the Bangladesh
Museums." The only suggestion that things might not be going entirely
as planned came from the notice "dates to be confirmed." The France
Guide still lists the original dates: 24/10/2007 to 03/05/2008.

Doubts had been raised about the transparency of the process through
which the exhibition had been arranged. With leading national experts
calling for a stay order and the court requiring the government to
demonstrate that due process had been maintained, things were getting
murky. A hastily called press conference by the French Embassy landed
them in further trouble. The Ambassador was promptly withdrawn.
Unconnected some say, but unusual in a country where the departure of
western ambassadors is generally accompanied by considerable fanfare.

"Some Bangladeshis who want to improve the image of Bangladesh abroad
have been supporting the exhibition", the new ambassador stressed. The
suggestion that the Bangladeshi experts who had questioned the
intentions of this prestigious museum and the French government
itself, and even had the audacity to suggest that the French might
possibly have intentions not entirely in keeping with Bangladeshi
interests, were unpatriotic, was perhaps unintentional.

Not a hair on Sita's head was singed as she had walked through the flames.
But she had been doubted, and she felt only the test of fire could
prove her innocence and her loyalty. Who is loyal to Bangladesh is now
the question. Protagonists of the proposed exhibition at Guimet
promptly dismissed the ones who demanded transparency, as Talibans and
enemies of the state. My beard didn't help.

The fact that these very experts had over the years been the mainstay
of collecting, creating and nurturing these collections, didn't appear
to affect the French argument. Given Kwame Opoku's recent statement
"Musée Guimet in Paris which incidentally also holds thousands of
stolen/illegal objects from China and the rest of Asia," one would
have expected the French to be more concerned with damage control. Or
was this an attempt to gain what they could before the cat got out of
the bag? Els Van Der Plas, the director of the Prince Claus Fund in
the Netherlands, held Guimet in high regard and had respect for the
director. June Rollinson of the British Council in Dhaka, also spoke
highly of the Guimet. Mark Haworth-Booth, former senior curator of the
Victoria and Albert Museum in London, was an old friend and had been a
guest teacher at Pathshala. He fully supported museums lending work to
each other but felt a shared copyright of the photographs (the
contract gave Bangladesh no rights over the images of the artifacts)
would have been the normal practice.

However it was Mark's comment "I do not think that professionally-run
museums would lend an object if it had no accession number." that got
me going. The appendix listing the items, obtained by court order, was
a farce. The number of items varied in different reports. We managed
to obtain the French internal listing which had 20 more items than the
Bangladeshi list. These had been obtained in a joint excavation
(France and Bangladesh) in Mahasthangar, and were all marked
'reserved'. Items had been clumped together without individual listing
(eg.'93 punch-marked coins'). Insurance value was sometimes missing.
The basic documentation of a normal museum inventory, like period,
condition and markings were missing. A large number of items had no
accession numbers. And this was a listing of the most precious items
belonging to Bangladesh, many of which Bangladeshis themselves had
never had the opportunity of seeing! Not even the nation's leading
scholars, researchers historians or archeologists. Certainly, it was
the Bangladeshi side that should have provided these details, but with
UNESCO stressing 'due diligence' on the part of the borrower, to
accept such a precious consignment on the basis of such flimsy
documentation, was fishy. More importantly, there was no way in which
even the most diligent officials could verify that the objects lent,
were indeed what had been returned.

This was what the French press release had insisted was 'complete
documentation'.

When Jos van Beurden sent me his soon to be published article
"Diplomats and smuggling of art" providing extensive and well
documented instances of how majority world countries had their art
objects stolen by wealthier ones via diplomats, it seemed as if it is
the image of France and not of Bangladesh that needs rescuing.

With some juggling of schedules, I was able to combine a trip to Paris
to show a newly made film, with the possibility of a trip to the
Guimet.
Musée du quai Branly, the museum inviting me, was also on the 'wanted'
list put together by Opoku and others. I needed no further convincing.
I was off to Paris.

Quai Branly had sent a car to pick me up from Charles de Gaulle
airport, and it was with considerable curiosity that I asked the
driver what he thought of the Guimet Museum. Xavier had never heard of
the place. I must have been unlucky with my driver, for Michel
Philpott of Le Monde du, who had invited me, did indeed know the
Guimet. It was perhaps not amongst the finest in the world, but still
an important museum. It was also within walking distance.

The following morning, my Armenian photographer friend Ruben and I
decided to pay the Guimet a visit. I had my HDV video camera with me.
I had done a few other things in preparation too, like writing to the
press officer Helene Lefevre, asking for an appointment. She did
respond to my mail, but no appointment had been granted. I had been
concerned that the Bangladeshi government had no rights over the
photographs taken by the French photographer, but a mail to him also
failed to elicit a reply. So Ruben and I were taking our chances. With
my own work having been shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou fifteen
years ago, I thought I had the credentials as an artist. I also had my
press pass.

Crossing the Seine on a sunny Paris day, looking back at the Eiffel
Tower, walking through the manicured pathways with Parisians striding
by in their haute couture, I could picture Doisneau photographing the
famous kiss.

Finding the museum in the busy Paris map was not easy. Tucked away in
the edge of a roundabout in Avenue D'Iena, was our famous Musée
Guimet. Two homeless people had camped outside on the footpath, and
children were having lunch on the short staircase. This represented
the reality in all our countries but is distant from the image the
establishment generally tries to provide.

I felt at home as I walked through the small entrance. This was far
less pretentious than our own national museum. The informality of the
place was comforting. The elderly gentleman beside us as we stood at
reception overheard me asking about the Bangladeshi exhibition.
Speaking with an American accent he remarked on what a fine show it
would be. "It was taking time, but it would definitely be there."

I was in journalist mode, and having discovered that he was Ambassador
Dean and a board member of Guimet, gently led him on to the sort of
work the museum was known for. He pointed out that the museum had just
restored the head of a Cambodian statue to its body after 500 years.
"Where was this statue?" I asked in as innocent a tone as I could
muster. "Right here in this museum" was the proud board member's
reply. The head that was France's gain, was presumably Cambodia's
loss.

I was lucky. Both the director of Guimet Jean-Francois Jarriage and
the curator of the show Vincent Lefevre, were available that day, and
didn't appear to have any appointments at that time. I handed over my
card, and spoke to Anna the director's secretary, over the phone. She
hadn't seen my card then, but when I explained over the phone that I
was from Bangladesh, I could sense a chill. Suddenly everyone clammed
up. Neither the director nor the curator was able to see me, and no
one in the museum would make any comment. Perhaps it was years of
colonialism that had shaped our behaviour, or our rustic mannerisms of
hospitality. I couldn't help wondering how a visiting journalist who
had arrived at the doorstep of any of our museums, would have been
drowned with cups of sweet tea laced with condensed milk by the time
the director had come over.

It was only a month ago when I had walked through the national museum
at Siem Reap, aghast at the rows of ancient Cambodian statues whose
heads were missing. One wonders where the heads have landed up.
Ambassador Dean's quest for restoration might just result in Guimet's
acquisition of the remainder of the bodies.

"Masterpieces of the Ganges delta." France's gain, Bangladesh's loss?

--
Shahidul Alam
Drik Picture Library Ltd.
http://shahidul.wordpress.com
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[Shadeshi_Bondhu] Fwd: Resist sending artefacts to France (more...)

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[Shadeshi_Bondhu] Fwd: [banglaart] Resist sending artefacts to France

arham chowdhury <arhamhch@yahoo.com> wrote:

To: arhamhch@yahoo.com
From: arham chowdhury <arhamhch@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:14:41 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [banglaart] Resist sending artefacts to France

Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW

Saturday, December 1, 2007 04:03 AM GMT+06:00

Published On: 2007-11-23

Front Page

Art connoisseurs vow to resist sending artefacts to France

Staff Correspondent

Art connoisseurs said yesterday they would continue to resist the lending of valuable artefacts from the country to an exhibition in Guimet Museum in France.

The group of prominent artists and archeologists at a press conference held at Chitrok gallery in the city reiterated their opposition to the exhibition.

The artists say that there are enough reasons to fear the country might lose at least some of these very ancient and valuable artefacts forever if they are lend abroad.

Among the alleged controversies surrounding this deal has been the unavailability of the exact number of items going out to the exhibition abroad. The artists yesterday said that the government officials from the Ministry of Culture involved in this transaction are not cooperating with the experts' committee formed to investigate the matter.

They said that there are too many irregularities in the entire transaction altogether.

Pointing out to a report published in a local daily recently the artists said that its been reported that 10 of these artefacts, which are extremely valuable, have already gone missing.

Observing these facts Professor Sirajul Islam Chowdhury said, "It is hard to believe even the government officials involved in the lending cannot say exactly what number of artefacts are being sent to Paris." He said, "I believe the artefacts would not be returned once they go abroad."

Professor Sirajul Islam also said, "The image of Bangladesh is already very bright abroad, if anybody truly wants to see these artefacts, they can come here and see them." He added, " He said that the government could arrange exhibitions here in Dhaka rather than sending the artefacts to Paris.

The speakers said at the press conference, the country has faced similar situations in the past when valuable art works lent abroad through government deals were not returned to the country again.

Renowned artist Rafiqunnabi pointed out that in the past when the government had send some 30 art works of artist Mohammed Kibria to Yugoslavia, they were never returned to the country.

"So our stand is clear, we will not support the allow lending of these invaluable artefacts," he said.

Around 200 pieces of antiquities, including 128 life-size ancient statues, terracotta and copper plaques, Prajna Paramita scriptures and coins from the Pala, Sen, Gupta and Mayurya dynasties had been selected for the exhibition at the famous Guimet Museum by French archaeologists.

Under a deal signed between the French and Bangladesh governments, the exhibition at the famous Guimet Museum in France was scheduled to have been be held in Paris on October 23 this year.

But several art connoisseurs filed a writ petition to the High Court and the court issued a two-month stay order on the lending. Later, the French ambassador said at a press conference that the exhibition might not be held.

The government has since formed an experts' committee to review the whole process.

Nasir Hossain, assistant professor of the Institute of Fine Arts read out a written statement at the press conference. Professor Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, eminent archeologist AKM Zakaria, Professor Sanjida Khatun, artist Rafiqunnabi, architect Rabiul Hossain and artist Sishir Bhattachariya were present amongst others at the press conference.

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[Shadeshi_Bondhu] Mone Thakbe Na ?

[Shadeshi_Bondhu] Regarding the reception program of former Principle of Ideal School and College; Mr. Faizur Rahman and grand reunion 2008.

[Shadeshi_Bondhu] Celebrating the month of victory - and a note for Barrister Rafiqul Islam

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