bureaucracy
Bureaucracy ailment
For quite some time now, driven by the madness of old age, I’ve had the urge to write this piece. Some might see it as unsolicited advice, or question my right to say such things. That right, however, is nothing more than this: the writer is a resident of the cultural region known as South Asia; two, teaching has been his profession, so it has become second nature to him; and three, he is of age. In Bangladesh, an elderly person is called a murubbi, and murubbis are said to be accorded a special respect. Their words are meant to be heard by the younger ones—though how far that holds true in reality, I do not know. In many countries around the world, the elderly are viewed with a certain care, and even in democratic Western societies, they receive kindness and consideration. These, then, are the excuses from the writer’s side.