Television is a wonderful invention of modern science. It is really a wonder how the voice is transmitted along with the image of the speaker through television. This wonderful invention has been put to various beneficial uses for the progress and prosperity of mankind.
The uses of television are manifold. Television is the most modern means of communicating ideas and thoughts.


Television is a source of recreation. After a day’s work a sports-lover can enjoy his game and a music devotee can get his lessons from it. A news-lover can get aware of the latest development of the world and a politician can know about various political issues.
Television has a great educative value in teaching the illiterate and the students. As it is a very powerful mass media, television can help remove illiteracy from our society as well as from our country. Bangladesh Open University, for example, is rendering wonderful services through television.

If democracy means a real bond between the government and the people, television is beneficial to democracy. Political leaders can make the people aware of their programmers and thus can form public opinion.

Television has its demerits too. An undemocratic government may control it to exploit the people. It can be used for sensationalism and can have harmful effect on the moral life of the people. Sometimes, the young boys and girls become addicted to enjoying the watching TV for all day long shunning away their studies. Satellite TV channels made inroads on the native culture.


The importance of television cannot be exaggerated. But its programmes should be educative, instructive and harmless so that all the members of a family can watch it together with benefit and pleasure. And the authority should be alert in this regard so that television is not allowed to exercise any bad effect on the youngsters.

---Uses and Abuses---

Television, a widely used medium of mass communication, is a source of knowledge, pleasure and information. Thirty years ago it was considered the magic of science, and now it provides the most effective mass media channels in our country.  But at this moment, we cannot but ask ourselves whether this magic is doing good or bad to our younger generation. Television can educate the people as well as the students. It is the other name for the most effective and popular source of recreation for the people.
Films, dramas, songs, dances, comedy, national and commercial programs etc are telecast on it. Some of them beautify our feeling and open our inner-eye. TV is the most effective means of communication.
The government uses it to make people conscious about many important things. In the light of the above points, we must say that TV is doing good to us by giving us educational and recreational facilities. But commercial programs broadcast by foreign satellite. TVs do harm to our young people by spoiling their values, traditions and religious beliefs. In recent times, it is thus becoming more and more baneful for young people of our country. There are also other bad effects.
TV programs lead the children more to recreation than to education. Youngsters begin to ignore their own culture and accept the western culture. As we cannot stop the inflow of other cultures, we should adopt the good sides of the cultures and at the same time emphasise our own deep-rooted values. 

The memories of childhood always remain fresh in the minds of people. Childhood memories never go into oblivion. Man has a tendency to turn back memories from the present. There is a saying that the lost days were better days. My childhood haunts me like a passion. Whenever I am sick of the present, I try to get relief in the past days of my childhood.

I was born in the village Majhina under Narayangonj district. The river Sitalakshaya flows through the district and just by the east side of our village. In all the seasons, this river was a source of pleasure for me. We played together on the bank of this river,  we used to row on the river, jump into it and swim in it.

The village Maktab was another interesting place inmy childhood. An old erudite Moulvi used to reach us there. A large number of boys and girls used to attend the Maktab every morning. We used to learn lessons in a deafening noise. Many interesting incidents happened while we attended the maktab.

When the school bell rang for break, we used to run in groups and wandered about in the green land before returning home. We stole fruits from trees that belonged to others. Sometimes, we would forget to eat our midday meals. There was a bush near our school. We always searched for birds there and if found, we would steal them.

During holidays when my mother went to sleep at noon, I went to the railway line. There I together with other children gathered pebbles. We watched with wonder how the train passed.

I can never forget my childhood. It was the best period of my life. Life was totally care-free then. When I sit idle alone after the tiring day’s work, my childhood memories make me nostalgic. That was really a joyous period.

Child Labour

Bangladesh is a land of the third world countries. Owing to the rapid growth of population, the citizens of our country are getting poorer day by day. The poverty-stricken people are deprived of the basic necessaries of life such as food, shelter, clothing and education. Therefore, to secure a better living or simply to support their family, poor parents are engaging their children to work from a very early stage.

All the child labourers in Bangladesh are manual workers. They have to work hard to earn their living and the work is usually extremely strenuous and risky for them. At the age of eight, a child works as a servant at households. Children are engaged to work in cheap hotels and shops. Many children are found breaking atones or brick for house-building. They are also found doing dangerous work like welding. Some children work as street  hawkers selling different items to the passers-by. Some work in factories, some polish boots and some even work as rickshaw-pullers. In the rural areas, Children are engaged in the farming and rearing which is very difficult.
Child labourers are helpless and the employers take full advantages of this condition. They are given the least wages possible for the maximum labour. Sometimes, they need to work for ten to fourteen hours but are not paid for their overtime. They are usually treated very harshly at their working places. At households they are tortured physically and mentally. They are usually given insufficient food and as a result, they suffer from malnutrition.

It is said that the children are the backbone of a country. Our government should think about this grim and alarming situation of child labour and promulgate a law against ill-treatment towards them. People in general should be more humanistic to these poor children. If these children are not provided with the basic necessaries of life, they would be an economic burden for us. So, we have to be conscious about this crucial problem while there is still time.