In my mind what the entire subcontinent (not just Bangladesh) needs is vocational education at a massive scale, to put people to work, to be employed in value-added endeavors and export-led development such as garments, shoes, white goods, small electrics, kitchen appliances etc. You need money and food to fill stomachs Dada, not lofty theories or Santiniketan ideas.
Fascinating.
Some time ago, I came to the conclusion that it was useless training engineers, far less training MBAs, and started looking to train people to do jobs that were immediately available. Jobs where people did not have to impress HR staff with their knowledge of English and communications skills, but where they were judged by their ability to do good work within tight time schedules, and with credibility regarding delivery on time. As a result, my friends and I are using government money to train masons, electricians, plumbers, carpenters, beauty parlour technicians, serving staff for the food business, bakers, cooks and chefs, housekeeping staff for hospitality industry, and agricultural technicians.
Your knowledge of what is going on in India, for that matter, what is going on in West Bengal is paper-thin, but you are well-insulated by your belief that like Alexander Jowett, all that there is to know, you know it. Good luck on your intellectual journey; I know that you will feel blissful and unstressed by keeping reality at such a distance.
There is a appropo saying in Bangladesh,
Although my scope of knowledge seems to have been restricted to Latin and to Fren
ch, and to history studied in these languages over and above everything else, I beg leave to point out that you can speak about 'appropriate', or you can say, aping the French with everybody else,
apropos of whatever it is that you want to say.
But we digress; we were to watch enthralled as words of rural Bangladeshi wisdom dropped like pearls from your lips.
দুইদিনের বৈরাগী, ভাতেরে কয় অন্ন।
Ah! Blissful!!
That's how people in Bangladesh describe impractical Kolkata Aatels.
Odd how the practical hard-headed people of Bangladesh, led by their practical, hard-headed intellectuals, seem to hang around and discuss Kolkata Aatels the whole day through.
Training people in classics and philosophy to waste time in useless 'adda' about social critiques, existentialism, moral discourse about Nietzsche, Schopenhauer et al and engaging in high-minded political meetings and processions is what Kolkata Aatels engage in and what brought Kolkata to the state it is in today.
I beg to differ. If we lose contact with these aspects of civilisation and of civilised discourse, we get jerks. If you want to know what a jerk is, look around.
I'd rather not have Bangladesh go down that route....but there's no point in arguing with you, you will find flimsy excuses to put down anything I say, as I have established in the last three or so posts, so let's agree to disagree. The haughty lack of will to accept dissent or alternate points of view, another totalitarian Stalinist trait of Kolkata Aatels.
Of course, you must be right. As distinct from your own amiable flexible intellect, as ready to participate in a defence forum and seek to cover your complexes under large gusts of hot air.
I don't know Dada, you tell me. I would think most Kolkatans would have a heart attack if they tried to patronize Dhaka restaurants. Any dinner for say six in a Dhaka restaurant of any repute will exceed Tk. 10,000 or so. How many Kolkata restaurants have that issue?
By the way - there are quite a few Kolkata entrepreneurs trying to operate restaurants in Dhaka, in view of the profitability of the restaurants.
This is news to me - your claim that Kolkata is generally more expensive than Dhaka. I find this hard to believe - as most Bangladeshis I know who have visited, speak of how cheap it is to stay at hotels there (300 rupees a night for decent stay and about as much for a decent meal at a nice restaurant).
Maybe
@Banglar Bir bhai can corroborate.
Compare this in Dhaka for yourself.....
https://www.facebook.com/pg/bistro.e.bd/menu/?ref=page_internal
How wicked of those statisticians and pollsters who constantly put Dhaka at the bottom of the pile of desirable cities in which to live. The World Bank, no, wait, the International Court of Justice, no, wait, the UN Security Council, this just isn't getting anywhere, Nawaz Sharif, now how did his name crop up? OK, got it, Donald Trump should take some drastic action against people hiding the truth.
