It was a chilly winter morning in early 1993. Overawed by its imperious location in the capital’s educational precinct, I arrived in the compound of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology to take part in the entrance exam.
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Let’s break this paradox
Aren’t we teaching violence, after all?
Violence in the Universities is becoming “dudh-bhaat”. I apologise for the lack of equivalence of this Bangla expression, but such indeed is the case.
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