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Dear Editor,    I haven’t seen a new issue for nearly two months. The September issue was decent though. I really liked the cover story on adulterated food. It’s a scary thought. I really wonder sometimes what I eat, be it at home or at restaurants. The mobile court move was a good one, but we need more of that. I really liked the list that you provided. Another piece I really appreciated was the sex education story. I feel that educating our young with the right knowledge in sex is key to a healthy society. Anyway, hope to get a Slate issue soon.    Kamrul Islam    Niketon        Dear Editor,    Sex education? Dream on. Bangladesh will never get there. With the level conservatism that is embedded in our society and increasing everyday (I see Hijab, everywhere I go; I wonder if it is fashion or are we really getting radical!) don’t see sex education entering our curriculum anytime soon. The divorce story was a timely one. With so many of my friends getting hooked, faster than I can say the words ‘understanding’ and ‘compromise’, its no wonder divorce is on the rise. One fine winter, I hear two close friends getting married and by next summer, it’s over! The Noise columns have turned out to be good reads too. Waiting for your new issue, which has been quite late, wouldn’t you say?    Rubana    Lalmatia        Dear Editor,    With private television news becoming a daily diet during these melodramatic political times, it was nice to read the blog story on TV viewing. It is to the credit of Bangladesh’s media industry that private television channels have made such a huge impact on our daily lives, and albeit a positive one. Another piece that I was thought provoking was the one on globalisation. There so much talk on globalisation everywhere, it’s a buzzword now.    T.K. Chowdhury    New Eskaton        Dear Sir,    I write to commend Slate for doing a story on sex education, or the lack thereof, in this country. It is high time that we start discussing this issue. I wonder why we fail to understand that unless parents and teachers discuss and educate children about sex and the dangers associated with it from a young age, they cannot be expected to be responsible about it when they grow up. I remember that when we had bought our first biology books in school, our class teacher confiscated all the books on the first day of term, tore out the entire chapter on reproduction which contained diagrams of the male and female genitalia, and handed the books back to us, as if there was something unnatural and wrong in learning about the human body and its functions. This kind of attitude instils in children the idea that there is something dirty about sex, rather than promoting the fact that it is a very natural thing that everyone engages in, but that one must be responsible about. I hope that your article will make people sit up and take notice of the consequences of not educating young people in our country about sex!    Altaf Khan    Gulshan