USE & ABUSES OF SATELLITE TV

Television is the most common and widespread source of entertainment of the present world. Television now telecasts a wide ranges of programmers aiming at viewers of all classes and all ages and their diverse and demands. And satellite has added a new dimension to TV programming and telecasting. In fact satellite television has appears the whole world live in the box, and entertain us and inform us of all that is happening around the world.

Now in the present world, with the advancement of communication and technology, people’s tastes and interests have changed a lot. Television wonderfully and very effectively, is satisfying people’s interests and demand for entertainment and information. Television in general and satellite channels in particular air programmers of varied interest that people of all ages and all classes enjoy. Television programmers are not only entertaining; they are highly educative and informative too.

 Television and particularly satellite television provides people with round the clock news service and keeps them informed of the latest affairs happening around the globe. Besides giving news, views and information on various issues of the current world, television also show reports and analysis on trade and commerce, business and industries, economic and financial activities, agriculture and weather, new discoveries and opportunities. So, business world as well as researchers get valuable support from TV. TV channels very often telecast games and sports live. In fact, watching games and sports on TV has become a good source of recreation, and this also helps popularize games and sports.

 Television plays important role in business world. Television shows advertisement of different products and give them a wide recognition. Thus, it promotes business and commerce.

Satellite channels has removed monotony of watching fixed items of programmers. In fact, today we have specialized satellite channels on almost every interest. There are some channels which broadcast only news round the clock, some only show cinemas. Some channels show game and sports only, some channels show only the discoveries and inventions of sciences and technology and again some channels are dedicated for traveling animal world.

For every invention, there are some demerits. Television is not free from harms Television has great influence on young generation. In fact, many young people are addicted to watching television. It kills their valuable time that ultimately affects their study. Obscene and amoral films, drama of music, videos can influence young generation to evil doing. Indeed, satellite TV is now being seen as a means of cultural assault on developing countries by western nations.

Spending a lot of time for watching TV also affects productivity and work-efficiency. Much watching of colour TV is also harmful  for eye-sight and brand, and causes irritation. idleness and sleeplessnes.

Conclusion: As a Source of news and information and as a means of entertainment and recreation, television is still very popular and its effect is far reaching. It should be used for pure and harmless recreation and for constructing an ideal society.

IF I WIN A LOTTERY

Many a happy hour I have spent planning what I do win a lottery. At last the very truthdawned on me that everybody for himself to which I am not also exception. With thisides in my mind. I have already started purchasing lottery tickets regularly. I have always been optimistic and waiting for the day when dame fortune will actually smile on me. Since I am an educated youth. I hold modern view on life. I have decided to spend the money for my own self, my family and for humanitarian work.

Well, here is my budget for a prize bag of Tk. 1, 50,000,00. Let me be frank. I am not selfish, but I would like to spend a good amount for my personal pleasure only. I have my uncle in London and it is my secret desire to visit European cities like Paris, Hamburg, Bonn, Zurich and other places I have read much about. I have a pen-friend in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. I also desire to give him a surprise call while over there. I have no idea how much it would cost me, still I hope it will be around Tk.40, 000/- all inclusive.

I will hand over Tk. 30,000/- to my father to add two more needed much needed rooms to our existing house. We are an average middle-class family and my father works hard to keep us going; so I must help him as much as I can. Pia is my only sister, and she is very dear to me. She is already twenty and I hope in a yare or two she will get married. I have decided to  buy cash certificates to the tune of Tk. 15,000/- in her name. I can well imagine how happy she would be when she gets the gift from me to start a new life! Helping my mother a little in her tight budget is another secret wish of mine. I have planned another Tk. 15,000/- to help her tide over her difficulties.

I know that man lives in deeds not in years. I do not like that my memory should sink into oblivion my passing away from the surface of the earth. I want to occupy a place in the innermost recess of human heart by my humanitarian work which we see done by the men great of heart. I want to be remembered by my beneficial work to the end to the end. So  I will spend a greater portion of the budget by doing various humanitarian work for the people my area.

Now I shall be left with a big amount which I propose to put in a bank to cover all my educational and personal expenses.

With all these exciting ideas already chalked out, at least mentally. I am anxiously waiting for the memorable day when I am really going to win a lottery.

IF I WERE A POLITICIAN

I am a student and my career plan is to be a chartered accountant. I have never thought of becoming a politician. I am a politically conscious citizen of the county though I do not like politics. Rather recent dirty and bloody games of politics have made me apathetic to it. But I am also well aware of the fact that politicians lead the country and form the government. Whatever important things happen in the country are made by the politicians.

Things do not always turn out according to ones wish. So I might be a politician one day. If I were a politician. I would bring a qualitative change in politician and politician leadership. I would take initiative and corrective reforms to improve the stare of politics affairs.

If I were a politician. I would dedicate myself to the service of my people, stand by them in their weal and woes listen to their sufferings and miseries and try my best to remove the causes of their sufferings.

I know that political freedom is meaningless without economic freedom. Though Bangladesh has achieved political freedom, it has not yet achieved economic freedom. Majority of our people are poor and are deprived of proper education, nutritious food, healthcare and pure drinking water. So if I were politician and elected to the parliament, I would take practical and long-term measures to remove poverty, create more employment opportunity. speed up economic activities of the country, spread education and reach the benefit of governments development programmers to the doors of common people.

I know that to be a successful politician, people s support is a must. In democratic politics people hold ultimate power and elect their representative or reject them. So if I were a politician I would above all serve the people and use all my time and energy, knowledge and experience to improve their condition. I would never abuse my power and never wrongly use my position.

A real patriotic and dedicated politician can make history by bringing smiles to thousands of suffering faces. Politicians make history. If I were a politician. I would try to do something noble to be a part of history. I do not like cheap popularity. I would only do the right thing. I know that right decision, right work and right outcome would crown me with success. And what would be more right than doing welfare to people as a politician.

CINEMA ITS USES AND ABUSES

Cinema is the popular name for motion-picture which is made of a integrated series of innumerable photographs projected with the help of light on a celluloid screen. When sound is introduced along with the projection, the pictures reflected on the screen are found  to talk and sing. Such pictures are called talkies. Cinema is, in fact, the result of optic delusion.

No other invention of science has evoked so sharp difference of opinion than cinema because nothing else is so evenly divided between good and evil. Cinema is useful immensely useful to all classes of people, young and old, rich and poor, duffer and intellectual. But cinema also cam be immensely harmful and lead a whole generation of man to the dogs. It all depends, however, on how it is organized and for what purposes motion-pictures are utilized.

A right kind of motion picture with an edifying theme is an invaluable source of delight and recreation which is so essential for mental and physical health. We get recreation also from other sources-books, radio and the stage. But none else can give it so thoroughly. nor can absorb the mind so completely. That is why thousands and thousands throng around the cinema halls every day.

Cinema has also great educative value. Only the literate section of the people has access into books and papers. But all without exception can enjoy a cinema show and learn therefore. Besides, as the motion-pictures teach through entertainment, the mind receives the lessons quickly and easily.

They turn up for sheer recreation and return unknowingly with a lot of instruction too. What an admirable method of teaching indeed. If properly organized, films can yet become more perfect agencies of teaching all subjects of human study-literature, philosophy, science and economics and so on. He who has once seen the picture of Macbeth by Shakespeare or Caesar and Cleopatra by Shaw know much better of both the books than he who has read them even twice or thrice. Fall of Berlin” is a better history of the Russo-German fight during the World War II then any book needing days together to read. Similarly, if a government want to propagate a scheme or even to inculcate a lesson of health, there is nothing on which it can depend more than the screen.

But the cinema has as well a dark side as it has a bright side. At times and not infrequently, cinemas ignore higher and motives in order to appeal to the vulgar taste of the multitude. Designed primarily to return the investment several times, producers often make their pictures too vulgar for any man of taste to see-throwing in silly romances, absurd situations, corrupting songs and vulgar dances. Such pictures demoralize society as a whole, particularly the young. Censor Boards are always there and exist in all countries. But their scissors have so far failed to cope with the producers crafty brains.

In order to prevent the evils of cinema and to harness it to the higher needs of society, every country should have a board of cultured men with high powers to cheek the production of unhealthy pictures. Instead of subjecting pictures to post-production censor, the story, the sceneries and the outlines of songs and dances should be got approved by that board. In short, every conceivable measure should be taken to ensure that the power of the cinema may not be used to used to reap individual profit at the cost of social morality.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A RICKSHAWALA

 I am a rickshaw-driver and popularly know is `rickshawala’ in our part of the world. That is the name by which I am called. Sometimes passengers shorten my title and call out Halloo, rickshaw’ as if I am the vehicle that I ply. But I know what they mean and at once rush to their service. I cannot afford to have any false sense of vanity either.

I am poor but not miserable. I suffer poverty but no unhappiness. I fell proud to earn my living by the honest sweat of my brow. I thank my star that I am not a thief.

I driver a there-wheeled vehicle that you call `rickshaw’. I do not own my carriage yet but hope to buy one in the near future. Nonetheless I love the `rickshaw’ that gives me an honorable living. I love it with the care of a father and always ply with caution and tenderness. I keep it neat and tidy and protect it from rain and son.

Shall I tell you a bit of my daily life? Yes, let me tell you. You may find it somewhat interesting. I rise quite early in the morning, eat my poor but pleasant breakfast, and go out with my there wheeled car. At times I have to paddle a long way off before I get a passenger. As the sun rises higher and higher, my trouble increases. How difficult it is, after all to drive along several mounds of weight with no stronger things than two human legs. And often I have to run for miles without any income. But on the whole my income is good. After meeting the dues of the cruel, I am left enough to feed my family except on rare occasions when natural calamities disturb my work. Usually I work from morning to sunset, with a break in the midday for lunch. Generally after a long trip. I rest for a while and take some repast.

I have a home- a small but loving home where I live with my loving wife and beloved children. When I go out in the morning, my children see me off at the door. When I return home in the evening they receive me on the adjacent road. They rush out of my small cottage as soon as they hear the sound of my bell. As I go in with them, my living wife receives me with a smile and then sits by me fanning off my fatigue. Shortly, afterwards we all eat our dinner together and go to bed rather early.

But on top of all my joys I have a permanent fear which robs me of much of the relish of life. I have no security. I am now young and energetic and can keep off starvation by the power of my muscles. But what will happen when I grow old? Who will feed my children if I fall sick or die of an accident? Whenever I think of these problems. I find no reply. But I depend on God and believe firmly that He will give me and my family the protection we deserve.