A Farmer
I am a very strong man. I had never cried in my life for any reason. But for the last 20 days I have been crying over the phone to my wife every single day. We have been married 40 years and after our marriage, we had never spent a day without being with each other. Even my wife never visits her parents' home without taking me along with her. But in order to have some money to celebrate the Eid festival with my family members, I had to come to Dhaka to pull a rickshaw during this scorching hot summer. No one knows from my village that I came here to pull a rickshaw. I feel some shame and I’m always in a panic thinking someone I know will see me pulling a rickshaw. I hide my face during the daytime with a mask so that no one can recognize me. I am a farmer. This year planting paddy on my only land I got only 30 mon of paddy by spending 16 thousand taka. But when selling that paddy I could only earn 15 thousand taka! Every year farmers like me are facing these problems. But there i...