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The match was held at Mirpur stadium. The venue is merely a kilometre away from the head office of Grameen Bank. Muhammad Yunus has millions of members in Grameen Bank. They are very upset as the government wants to push out Yunus from the Bank’s top position. The rural ladies, including the phone ladies, united and organised “bat-ball chalan” across the country. This is traditional rural black magic of Bangladesh. Nevertheless, they recited the “mantra” and sent it through voice-SMS to a designated number, which was located at Grameen Bank head office. An Apple i-Phone, rumoured to have gifted by Hillary Clinton to Yunus, was used in this case. That smart device was held facing the Mirpur stadium. The mantra, pronounced by millions of Grameen Bank borrowers, traveled to the stadium and paralysed the Tigers (not the real ones in Sundarban). Therefore, Yunus has to be blamed for our cricketers’ disastrous performance. Cheers!

Bangladesh has so many problems and it’s hard for any government, corrupt or not, to deal with them. It’s always up to the bureaucracy to solve and take care of all of the 145 million Bangladeshis. But it shouldn’t be up to the government to provide everything to the people; the government should have limited jurisdiction of how much they should get involved in the lives of the common people. The government should act as a regulator instead of a mother to the Bangladeshi people. Details…