Bangladesh, Sept. 27 -- The observance of the World Rivers Day, as customary on the 4th Sunday of September, last Sunday could not get over the ritualistic and archetypal. Banners, festoons, street marches and seminars marked the day but apart from members of a handful of organisations, some volunteers and media people, the rest of the people were hardly aware that such an event is observed annually since 2005. Even Bangladesh did not care to observe the day before 2010.
Clearly both the international community and this country came to realise quite late that the rivers on the planet actually hold the key to survival of human and other species -flora or fauna. Or else, how could the United Nations or any other body fail to accord rivers a ...