Dictionary Bengalensis

ABUL (noun/adjective, colloquial): A person with a callous mind, a silly heart, and a moronic disposition. Example: Abul Hussein, Abul Maal and other ministerial Abuls.

CORRUPT (adjective, transferred): A qualifier for the last government, always. And, never the current government. Also a quality never found by Anti-Corruption Committee in government officials or the police.

COURT of JUSTICE (noun, irrelevant): An institute standing as an enemy of the government, the parliament and the ruling party. Ideally suited for attacks from party members and police. Good for passing judgement on language, novels and other creative stuff.

DEMOCRATIC (adjective, hilarious): A quality to signify someone who hates freedom of speech, is afraid of a free and fair election, and has no clue of right to live, freedom of movement or constitutional responsibility.

ELECTRICITY (noun, impossible): A substance that can be taxed, disconnected, withdrawn, swindled and stolen, but can not be used, supplied, produced or accessed.

INTERPRETATION of the CONSTITUTION: Freedom of Speech applies to media other than TV news, talk shows, newspapers, blogs, facebook status and interviews. If you're trying to practice freedom of speech in any of the above media, you're an enemy of the state.

IRONMAN (noun, super): Anyone living in Dhaka, where the air is full of lead, the water is full of arsenic, the food is full of formalin. The two elements permanently missing are iodine and zinc.

PARTY (noun, happy): A political congregation mainly organized for entertainment purposes at the expense of the people, and is invariably very expensive.

RAMADAN: (noun, misleading) 1. Intended use: A month of fasting and prayer; 2. Real use: A month of over-eating, extra-bribe, heavy-corruption, increased intolerance and what not.

ROBUST ECONOMY (noun, imaginary): It means a condition where remittance starts drying up because of popular image as Islamists, RMG sector faces dire consequences because of non-compliance, farmers go bankrupt because of falling prices of their produces, industrial workers go hungry because of closing factories, the middle class suffers because of sky rocketing consumer prices, the share market collapse because of government backed corruption and micro-finance suffers set-backs because the government hates Grameen Bank.

RULE of LAW (noun, incogitable): A situation where the police beats up judges, the parliament asks the court to apologize, ruling party leaders plans a strategy to oversee court procedures, the constitution is amended whimsically, the people are killed, raped, beaten and robbed by law enforcers, and anti-corruption officers never finds an complaint to be true.

SPIRIT of 71 (noun/verb/adjective/joke): Something that is for the government to peddle for sympathy, use as an excuse for a million crimes, and has been taken away from the freedom fighters who doesn't appreciate government corruption. (use example: "Anyone who questions the government is destroying the spirit of 71" - PM)

SOVEREIGNTY (noun, oppressive): A property that belongs to the court, the parliament, the prime minister, the ruling party and the police. It can never belong to the people.

WAR CRIMINAL (noun, apologetic): (1) A title for murderers and rapists who could have been tried and sentenced by common law, but are being tried in an international tribunal that has been turned into a joke by the government; (2) Anyone who doesn't agree to the government.