Death on seventy-two wheels

text and photo by Khamin

Steamer coming! Steamer coming! Quick! Take a suitable seat! Shouts a student of Chittagong University to his cousin, who is an enrollment candidate. At the same time another man, Kashem, is busy in crowd-control with his trusty bamboo stick. He is the only man on duty without a whistle. Thirty-thousand seven-hundred seventy-nine applicants face admission tests for the C unit (faculty of business administration) at Chittagong University. The date is November 20, 2008.