I am Shanti Rambari, Chairman of Arshibad Organization. My friend Saruwar is person with disability. Saruwar had to amputate one of his legs due to polio when he was young. Saruwar has a small beautiful family with two sons and a wife. In his personal life, Saruwar is a social, humane person. Even though he is a disabled person himself, he always thinks about how other people with disability will be better. However, sometimes he gets frustrated. Because he does not have a job. His family…

We are familiar with the people of the place where we live since we were children.  The smell of the earth sticks to us.  We grow up in that environment.  There is nothing unknown to us.  not so  But these words are not correct at all.  What we see is what we want to see.  What we hear and say, we want to hear and say.  We get used to living within a society's rules.  However, many things happen outside of our care and understanding in society.  That we cannot think about.  So what…

 People have a perception about the Harijan Dalit community in Bangladesh that Harijans and Dalits are small communities. They are untouchable people. They can not travel, eat and live together. They live in a community of their own. Where people of other communities do not live. Most people don't know about them. What are Harijans and Dalits? How many casts are there among them? Their work is about culture. The Harijan community in Bangladesh consists of eight castes. Like Hela, Basfor,…

Breaking any rule is not easy.  When we live by certain rules for ages, we cannot even think of breaking them.  Our weakness, devotion and faith are created towards that rule.  I think this is why there is still prejudice in society.  But in today's time, if you want to survive, you have to break some rules.  The Dalit Harijan community in Bangladesh has some rules of its own.  The Harijan Hela Samaj Panchayats are governed by certain oral rules of their own forefathers. …