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WITH permission, may I ask you a question? Can you walk straight along the footpath without any obstacle and being confronted by unwanted hawkers in Bangladesh? Ok. I can guess your answer. But have you got that very experience of passing through the footpath crowded by fake and unauthorised CD-sellers? I think you have the experience, as many of us have to go to Gulistan, Farmgate, and Nilkhet-New Market and many other public places.
If you look at their shops you may conclude that they are just selling the CDs (definitely fake ones) of Indian movies, Indian songs and Bangla songs. But if you just let them get you for few seconds in front of their shops, you will be definitely offered by them CDs of pornographic movies. They will not be bothered that you may be embarrassed by their offer even before your family. And yet, of course, in front of the law enforcing agencies. The devastating reality is that, it is our children who are often their targets and it is they who are getting these offers and who turn into their customers.
These hawkers can commit this offence in public because they have the backing of the so-called law enforcing agencies. This is being done from morning to mid-night as they shut their shops for a while between these times. Teenagers, pedestrians, school and college-going students gather around them and the hawkers are selling those CDs on a come-and-serve basis to them. Can we foresee the inevitable effects of this?
Danial
9-C, Hometech Tower,
100 Pilkhana Road,
Azimpur, Dhaka.
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