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Everything’s going to be alright… right?

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After finding our footing from the initial shock, grief, and anger, we ask the pertinent questions: why did this happen? Who was responsible for this? And then our rage is compounded by the knowledge that all of this was preventable. Fire safety was not up to code, the building was poorly and thoughtlessly constructed, enforcement from the authorities was lacking and, as always, once the fire started, the fire services were only able to accomplish too little, too late. At the root of all this misery is bad governance. With officials looking the other way, and bribes smoothing over just about any issue, Dhaka has become a city of death, and we always seem to be living in perpetual anxiety about the next fire. This is not the first time I am finding myself writing about deadly fires, either, and I'm fairly sure it won't be the last.

This starts with telling the truth about problems on the home front instead of playing a game of distractions, giving importance to everything else (from sports to geopolitics) while ignoring the issues which sink us. It's tempting to rail against Western hypocrisy or engage in a bout of whataboutism ("Why make such a fuss about our fire safety when deadly fires have broken out in the UK as well?"), but these are just ways for politicians to blow a lot of smoke and avoid addressing the real issues. The fact that bad things happen in other countries is no excuse to turn a blind eye when they happen here. The fact that high levels of corruption and negligence exist among public officials elsewhere, say, in more developed nations of Southeast Asia or East Asia, is no excuse to dismiss the same here. The fact that Western democracies are imperfect machines with plenty on their conscience does not mean we should not strive for true democracy and accountability here in Bangladesh.

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March is the month of independence for Bangladesh. It was on March 26, 1971 that Bangladesh declared its independence from Pakistan. A brutal, bloody nine-month war followed and, in December 1971, Bangladesh achieved victory. Every schoolchild knows this history, and consequently, every schoolchild is bombarded with a narrative of nation-building. Every discussion, every point of contention comes back, over and over again, to the idea of patriotism—or its ethically complicated cousin, nationalism. Furthermore, all roads go back to the Liberation War, and with a certain fixation on the mythography of the past, we forget to properly take care of the present or plan for the future.