The beauty of the bamboo
You cannot ignore the bamboo. More to the point, you cannot cast aside the truth that the bamboo has played a vital role at various points in our history. That it has a power of its own, either to intimidate or set the mind thinking was demonstrated a couple of weeks ago when a young lawmaker in Rangpur, hundreds of his followers in tow and with sleek, green bamboos in hand, descended on the local medical college for purposes that were as nefarious as they were reprehensible. The bamboo came in handy, even when those under attack fought back and gave the lawmaker and his hangers-on a taste of that self-same bamboo.
