Dhaka, Jan. 10 -- Public interest in the corporation election is very limited as everyone thinks AL will win the election for certain. In fact public interest in elections of any kind is very limited. Whether that is good news or a bad news is another matter. But if the objective was to make elections unpopular, then it was successful. Nobody cares much about them anymore. Proving that power matters not participation has its own values.

A memory of dengue

But does performance matter? The most important public memory is that of the dengue epidemic last year which swept across many parts of the world including Bangladesh. The difference between most and Bangladesh was that we displayed a spectacular level of inefficiency in tackling the c...