Comments | bastiat: I'm humbled

bastiat

I'm humbled

Feb 03, 2007 13:25

Seventy something Hanufa Begum wakes up everyday between 3 to 4 in the morning. Her first task of the day is cleaning the roads of the local market in a village called Bagachra in Jessore. i.e, tini ekjon rasta jharudar. After she finishes with the cleaning of the roads, she goes to the local hospital where she does the same thing. She dusts & ( Read more... )

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sting_crawler February 3 2007, 09:56:08 UTC

I wish I were there. Hats off to R for coming up with the idea -- I guess things like these sometimes make our jobs a little worthwhile. And goddamn incremental sales...

bastiat February 3 2007, 18:15:25 UTC

u did miss it. it was a program unlike n e other. i'll send u a dvd with all the avs. and yes, definitely hats off to R.

bollox February 3 2007, 09:59:05 UTC

nice writeup.. any press coverage?

bastiat February 3 2007, 18:19:43 UTC

loads. am thinking of putting subtitles to the avs & uploading them in utube.

bollox February 4 2007, 12:42:08 UTC

send me some links, I'll put them up on DP blog

bastiat February 4 2007, 16:59:23 UTC

i'll send some your way tomorrow. Farhan was talking about blogging about it. maybe he has put it up in DP already.

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timeless5 February 3 2007, 13:52:13 UTC

Inspiring and humbling. Yet still we go about our lives doing nothing.
Tomorrow I will again do nothing. And the next day, and the next, and the next, and the next...Makes one want to DO something. But what?

How were these people actually unearthed? I am assuming that someone wrote in nominating them with a story of their sacrifice/efforts?

How were they honoured?

bastiat February 3 2007, 18:30:35 UTC

yes, they were chosen from more than 3000 nominations.

each of the chosen ten were awarded with a crest, a shawl and cash prize of 100k. but I suppose now with all the media attention, they will get more assistance.

timeless5 February 4 2007, 13:56:52 UTC

That's good to hear. But it also give one food for thought. How many of those 3000 nominations were perhaps equally deserving of the "honour"? How many were cast aside because their efforts were described by someone not very skilled in the language arts? 1000? 2000? 2999? In a country of 147million people is .002 a representation of the percentage of selfless individuals in this sea of materialistic humanity? Even if 10times as many deserving nominations had been recieved, how much of a change would it have ( ... )

bonbibi February 3 2007, 17:12:42 UTC

liked the write-up too kintu keno: 'We are nothing and have done nothing. That is what we will always be'?

bastiat February 3 2007, 18:41:25 UTC

don't know about others, but I guess i'm too selfish. too used to the comfortzone. I don't hv the mettle.I hv become too dependent on the material things. just take for example my intention of going and spending time with underpriviliged children in a school my company sponsors. i've been meaning to go there for the last two years...and its still meaning to go. I have time to do all the useless things in life..but I don't have the time to give back even a little of bit my 'knowledge'.

bollox February 4 2007, 12:43:25 UTC

well get up then and like jordan, just do it!

bastiat February 4 2007, 17:18:09 UTC

seriously, i'll try harder now.

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gulgolla February 4 2007, 14:27:11 UTC

I'm humbled, too!