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.
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