Dr. Rashid Askari: Fiction writer, critic, columnist, teacher, and social analyst.

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Dr. Rashid Askari is one of the handful of writers in Bangladesh who write both Bengali and English with equal ease and efficiency. Born on 1st June, 1965 in a sleepy little town of Rangpur in Bangladesh, he took an Honours and a Master's in English from Dhaka University with distinction, and a PhD in Indian English literature from the University of Poona. He is now a professor of English at Kushtia Islamic University.


Rashid Askari has emerged as a writer in the mid-nineties of the last century, and has, by now, written half a dozen books, and quite a large number of research articles, essays, and newspaper columns in Bengali and English published at home and abroad. His two Bengali books: Indo-English Literature and Others (Dhaka-1996) and Postmodern Literary and Critical Theory (Dhaka-2002) and one English book : The Wounded Land deserve special mention. He also writes short fictions in Bengali and English. His first short-story book in Bengali Today's Folktale was published in 1997. Another short-story book in English is awaiting publication. Currently, he is working on an English fiction.


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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Mental Torture on Women and the Legal Cure in Bangladesh

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Dr. Rashid Askari - January 31st, 2011
But how long will this continue? How long will the silent cries of these helpless women go unheeded? The buck stops here. It is time to take it into serious account. Women constitute the half of our total population and take equal part in the overall development of the nation. How can we expect a developed nation without a developed woman  population?
Napoleon Bonaparte shows women development as an essential prerequisite for national development. To quote:” Give me good mothers and I will give you a good nation.”  Abigail Adams, the first Second Lady and the second First Lady of the United States clarifies: “If we mean to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers we should learn women.” The former U N Secretary General Kofi Annan echoes the same view:” When women thrive, all of the society benefits and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.” So, there is no room for belittling women’s role in social development. We should not turn a deaf ear to their sorrows and sufferings any longer.
But how can we help it? The laws relating to the trial of women oppression in our country should be implemented in right earnest. New laws should be made to try the mental torture cases in particular. The government, the law-makers, and the members of the civil society come up with the introduction of specific law regarding mental torture on our women.
But that is sure not going to be the panacea for this problem. As a matter of fact, the crux of the problem is related to the very culture of the community. So there should be efforts to change the cultural attitudes towards women. American author and activist Charlotte Bunch sees eye to eye with this. In her words: “Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.”  Above all, women should not only be hanging on the charitable favours to be extended to them from time to time as ‘the weaker sex’. They should learn to stand on their own feet and determine their real enemy and then wage fight. An eminent contemporary feminist Betty Friedan points out: “Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.” Friedan also shows the way to emancipation. In her own words: “The only way for a woman, as for a man, is to find herself, to know herself as a person.(not as a woman).There is sure no gainsaying Friedan’s prescription with regard to women in Bangladesh in particular and world- women in general.
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Dr. Rashid Askari writes fiction and column and teaches English at Kushtia Islamic University.
Email: rashidaskari65@yahoo.com
Source: http://www.thekushtiatimes.com
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