Bangladesh, April 27 -- Even in a competitive job market in this country, A Science graduate in Textile Engineering has quite a demand. Managing a job is not beyond such a graduate's ability. And indeed Fahad Akand was offered a job of good remuneration. But the young man from Beraiderchala village in Sreepur, Gazipurwas made of different elements -was not just the run of the mill. He did not accept the offer.

What he did instead is the trademark of the exceptional -ones who can think out of the box, only more so in time of social or national crisis. The young man, according to a report carried in a Bangla contemporary, was worried about the future of the children -teenagers in particular of his locality. He was pained to see that the youn...