Our global conscience is hit by yet another meaningless war, this time directly impacting the western democratic bloc in Europe. Images of atrocities are everywhere in the news media. No matter how hard I try to selfishly shield myself from the horrors of human sufferings, I cannot. I live in a country that prides itself as the superhero that is relentlessly working to save democracy, and my society considers the Ukraine war as an assault on democracy.

ঘৃনায় বলল, তোমার গায়ের রং গাঢ়, ময়লা তুমি অসুন্দর, নিশ্চয়ই অপরাধী

I am not a conformist when it comes to the definition of race by the skin color. I refuse to identify any human group by the conventional skin colors – white, black, red, yellow, and brown. At a broad brush, people from European origin are considered white, people from African origin are considered black, people of China, Japan, and rest of the East and central Asia are called yellow, native people of North and South America are classified as red, and generally all others including people from South Asia and the Middle East are considered brown.

Agami was registered as a non-profit entity in California, USA, in 2003 and subsequently got its US 501 (c)3 tax-exempt status. Agami's founding core values, still practiced today, can be described in a sentence as 'an action group supporting basic education for the underprivileged

2017 was the year of confusion, chaos, disaster, and disorder. From all these forces of instability came more deaths, displacements, and increased human sufferings. We seem to have broadened the divide along the lines of religion, race, color, and ethnicity.

How about a disclaimer first? I am not an expert on religion, politics, race, etc. But, I have strong interest in them as they have strong influence in our lives.

President Abraham Lincoln was confident about the survival of the American form of representative government when he famously said, “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth," in his Gettysburg Address.

Vulnerability of Power The other day I was watching an episode of the new ABC TV serial called ‘Designated Survivor’ in which a state governor lets loose his police force on minority Muslim community after a terrorist strike on Washington DC wipes out the Capitol Hill and kills the President and all his cabinet members except the Designated Survivor. Designated survivor is usually a chosen