Where Have All the Flowers Gone
“ T he smallest clothes, no one ever lifts them to the roof. The tiniest bed now lies in sorrow, empty. The one who came last, Has gone away first. That little one, who was the smallest of all, Has emptied every corner with their absence.” -Satyendranath Dutta July 21st, 2025, a blood-stained date etched into Bangladesh’s history, one that will never pass silently again. On that afternoon, an F-7 BGI training fighter jet crashed into Milestone School and College in Uttara, Dhaka, extinguishing 31 young lives and taking the brave lives of two teachers. Some children were in fourth grade, others in fifth, one may have just written their first poem, ready to hand it to their teacher. But the fire that rained from the sky turned those dream pages to ash. They were more than just students, they were storytellers of tomorrow. Little Ayat’s artwork had hung on the school corridor just a week before. Rahman, the science fair champion, had proudly said, “I want to become a doctor.” But today, t...