“Few things are harder to put up with than a good example”

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The heading of this write up is a borrowed quote from Mark Twain, the witty guy with a big mustache. I live in a little town on the mighty Mississippi - Hannibal, Missouri where Mark Twain lived his childhood days! Whenever, I visit downtown for a little coffee or anything else, on the hill, I see the Mark Twain Boyhood Museum and I think of this quote.



It, indeed, is very hard to put up with a good example. The other day, the Honorable Minister and Awami League (AL) Secretary General again invoked the name our only Nobel laureate to give a little extra credit to our sitting Prime Minister. Other ministers, AL leaders and even the Attorney General, at various time, tried to spray an extra little glow for the Prime Minister. Yes, the witty man with a big mustache from Hannibal said it right ....



But why? Why the Prime Minister, having all the hard powers of the state juggernaut at her disposal consider her feat a lesser feat than that of Yunus? She has all the love in the land. She is the undisputed heiress of the most powerful political Ghorana. She lacks nothing. And yet she longs for what Yunus never longed for! He dreamed and worked hard and he himself became an example international repute. And he got what he deserved!



For whatever reason, the nation has given our Prime Minister the biggest gift one can have. They gave her the opportunity to serve them for 5 years. And she had visions too. She came with a dream of Digital Bangladesh - that can make governing open and transparent thus reducing all the other maladies that accompany our “as usual” governance. If she just keep on working for this very noble goal, she can be a transformational leader ushering her poor millions in the new era of information and prosperity. I bet, Yunus and his intellectual tools are ready to be tapped for the benefit of the people.



“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it” - thus goes Henry David Thoreau.

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