From The Other Side of The Wall
Dear mr. Mohammad Yunus,
I was sitting in my one-room apartment on east-side Oslo last sunday sincerely crying, while hearing on the radio the introduction made by the leader of the Nobel-comittee Ole Danbolt Mjøs for your speech.
Why did I cry? Because a man like you, representing my own ideals and longings, was just a few hundred meteres away geographically, but anyhow behind an impenetrable wall, known as Norwegian society. During your visit in Norway you found yourselves on the other side of the wall, which I guess must have been a rather claustrophobic experience to you. What makes you so great, mr. Yunus, and fully deserving the Nobel-peace-price, is your strive to crush the wall separating the wealthy minority, to whom you self belong, and the majority of the world living in poverty.
That`s why it was so touching to find you on the other side of the wall in Oslo, with myself on the side of the poor farmers whom you support. In contrast to the director of Telenor Jon Fredrik Baksaas, the leader of the Nobel-committee Ole Danbolt Mjøs, the Norwegian king and all the prominent representatives of Norwegian society you was surrounded by during your visit in Norway, I represent the large 700 000 minority in rich Norway who live their lives outside the ordinary work-life despite their ability to work. We are the ones who never will be accepted for a work under mr. Baksaas or other representatives of the Norwegian establishment because we do not "fit in", are too critical about the running of the business, inspired by the same obvious ideas you have systematized back home in Bangladesh, and making a fortune of it, not only for your self, but for the millions.
This evening Norwegian state television showed a documentary on your work, where the reporter Ingolf Haakon Teigene concluded that your vision of a world for your grandchildren, or our children, where poverty will be a strange phenomenon of the past to be experienced only in the museums, "of course" is to be regarded nothing but an utopia, driven by the light you see in the faces of the doomed children you have saved.
I want to challenge mr. Teigene and the Norwegian state broadcast on this one, as the state-owned Telenor should be challenged for not sticking to its obligations in Bangladesh, explained in a very humiliating way in the Norwegian medias, as if the leadership of Telenor and Norwegian authorites know better than you what is good for Bangladesh. I find your position, mr. Yunus, much more realistic and foresighted, than the hesitation of the crisis-stuck Norwegian cold-war establishment, responsible for a massive and ugly undermining of the social and economic security of their own people, which you are busy securing for your people.
A shame we did not meet in Oslo, mr. Yunus, at this occation, but I`m sure there will be more chances. Meanwhile I wish you the best luck in your further work, and if you need some help to put pressure on Telenor or other services, you are welcome to contact me on sigurd_lydersen@yahoo.com.
Best regards
Sigurd Lydersen, Oslo, Norway
I was sitting in my one-room apartment on east-side Oslo last sunday sincerely crying, while hearing on the radio the introduction made by the leader of the Nobel-comittee Ole Danbolt Mjøs for your speech.
Why did I cry? Because a man like you, representing my own ideals and longings, was just a few hundred meteres away geographically, but anyhow behind an impenetrable wall, known as Norwegian society. During your visit in Norway you found yourselves on the other side of the wall, which I guess must have been a rather claustrophobic experience to you. What makes you so great, mr. Yunus, and fully deserving the Nobel-peace-price, is your strive to crush the wall separating the wealthy minority, to whom you self belong, and the majority of the world living in poverty.
That`s why it was so touching to find you on the other side of the wall in Oslo, with myself on the side of the poor farmers whom you support. In contrast to the director of Telenor Jon Fredrik Baksaas, the leader of the Nobel-committee Ole Danbolt Mjøs, the Norwegian king and all the prominent representatives of Norwegian society you was surrounded by during your visit in Norway, I represent the large 700 000 minority in rich Norway who live their lives outside the ordinary work-life despite their ability to work. We are the ones who never will be accepted for a work under mr. Baksaas or other representatives of the Norwegian establishment because we do not "fit in", are too critical about the running of the business, inspired by the same obvious ideas you have systematized back home in Bangladesh, and making a fortune of it, not only for your self, but for the millions.
This evening Norwegian state television showed a documentary on your work, where the reporter Ingolf Haakon Teigene concluded that your vision of a world for your grandchildren, or our children, where poverty will be a strange phenomenon of the past to be experienced only in the museums, "of course" is to be regarded nothing but an utopia, driven by the light you see in the faces of the doomed children you have saved.
I want to challenge mr. Teigene and the Norwegian state broadcast on this one, as the state-owned Telenor should be challenged for not sticking to its obligations in Bangladesh, explained in a very humiliating way in the Norwegian medias, as if the leadership of Telenor and Norwegian authorites know better than you what is good for Bangladesh. I find your position, mr. Yunus, much more realistic and foresighted, than the hesitation of the crisis-stuck Norwegian cold-war establishment, responsible for a massive and ugly undermining of the social and economic security of their own people, which you are busy securing for your people.
A shame we did not meet in Oslo, mr. Yunus, at this occation, but I`m sure there will be more chances. Meanwhile I wish you the best luck in your further work, and if you need some help to put pressure on Telenor or other services, you are welcome to contact me on sigurd_lydersen@yahoo.com.
Best regards
Sigurd Lydersen, Oslo, Norway
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