In December last year I wrote about winter in Bangladesh. Although the winter season lasts for just a couple of months, this year it has an adverse effect on the lives of the poor people. Still the cold wave might revive and send shiver down their spines as another half a month remaing before the cold officially subsides. Till then the rural people are still in danger.Hopefully the sun has been shining quite brillantly over the past few weeks and the fog has been dispersed to a large extent. The falling of morning dews have also been reduced to a great extent. Just a fortnight ago when the Idea-Cup Cricket matches were going on in Dhaka and Chittagong, the dew factors played a vital role in shaping the games because the team winning the toss could take the matches in their favour.Well, the good news for us is that if we can survive one more cold wave coming from the Himalyan and Siberian region, we can at least reach the spring which is the best season in our country.We are eagerly waiting for the spring to set in as we are totally shattered and battered by the ravaging cold. What we have to do now is to endure the last bite of winter which is in the offing.After all, if winter comes, can spring be far behind ?
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I'm talking from the view-point of those learners who are shedding their sweat from heads to feet in their frantic effort to master English as a second language.In a thirld world country like Bangladesh the students have been studying English right from the nursery stage as a compulsory subject.English books are rightly graded following the latest teaching materials. But the problem lies in its execution. The teachers are ill-equipped and still making the simple things difficult for the young learners by teaching too much grammatical rules.The question patterns are also responsible for the poor output as the students go on cramming the set answers and vomitting them like parrots in the exam-papers.Another important loophole in our English learning system is that our students need hardly to speak out in English. So they are acquring writing ability but not the speaking skill.Hence the need for communicative and spoken English.
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Over the past few days the Dhaka city dwellers have been experiencing the real bite of winter as the sky has been cloudy and no sign of the sun peeping behind the dense fog.The normal life has come to a halt as the people prefer now staying indoors to coming outside.The temperature has considerably fallen due to a mild cold wave blowing from the Siberian region has reached the north-western part of Bangladesh.In the rural areas of Our country, the winter is more severe because the temperature there almost goes down below freezing point. But there is no instance of any snowfall in our country. Luckily it also doesn't usually rain in winter in this part of theworld.The poor people have to bear the brunt of the acute cold because they lack warm clothes and any roof on their head.The vagabonds and the homeless people in the urban aras keep awake at night and try to warm themselves up by making fire with paper, wood etc.Winter is bleak and our poets have compared this season with the 'old widow' who wears a white saree. Apart from these bleak pictures we have some bright aspects in winter as well. For example, this is the season of mellow fruitfulness. The farmers reap their harvest at this time. So it is a season of bounty since we get ample food from our fertile soil.We celebrate amidst peace and happiness sharing good food and wearing loud coloured clothes.In fine, I would like to invite the people of other country to visit my land in winter which they will find very tolerable and fascinating. And to me Shelley's word is enough :" If winter comes, can spring be far behind ?"
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