“If it rains at home, how can I move, I won’t eat the storm anymore”

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Helal Uddin (65) went down the road with vegetables in a three-wheeled van. Ignoring the rainstorm, he left for Jamalpur town early Wednesday morning with an umbrella in one hand and a van in the other. If he sits for a day, the stove will not burn in his house. So trying to sell wet vegetables.

At around 10:30 this morning, standing on the road near Bania Bazar in Jamalpur city, I spoke to Helal Uddin. His house is in Ramerchar area of ​​Sherpur Sadar Upazila bordering Jamalpur. The distance of his house from Jamalpur city is about three and a half kilometers. Almost every day he comes to Jamalpur town to sell vegetables in a van.

Helal Uddin said, he has two daughters and one son. Daughters are married, sons also live separately after marriage. Even at this age, he has to work hard every day to run the family. Small capital business. So if you sit for one day, the family will not survive. There is no cultivation land. All expenses depend on the income from the sale of vegetables.

Helal Uddin was shivering from the cold after being soaked in the rain for a long time. When asked by this reporter, he smiled and said, “Bapu, 3 thousand 200 tehar capital.” How to carry on at home? I will not feed the storm anymore. The family does not want to live in this bazaar day and night.

Helal Uddin stopped for a while and said again, “After praying Fajr, I went to the wholesale market with a van in the rain.” Unthan Vieja Vieja buying vegetables. Bringing to town to sell again. Bait fitte fitte rait 12 da bajab. I will also hang clothes in it. This is our life. After understanding, this is how it goes. This is at the end of life.

Helal Uddin buys two to three thousand rupees worth of different vegetables from the wholesale market every day. He pushed the vegetable van and sold it in different areas of Jamalpur city. Many times he earns 500 to 700 taka. He spends 100 to 150 rupees on food throughout the day. Take the remaining money and return home.

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Helal Uddin was silent for a while and sighed on the question of how the family runs with that income. Then he said, ‘As God guides! The day goes on eating dail-rice in no mercy. I don’t dare to buy beef except for Eid. I am eating meat in one Eid – then I will eat meat again in the next Eid of sacrifice. But buy fish in the market. We can cook and eat with leftover curry.

Expressing anger and frustration when the subject of the market came up, he said, “All the goods in the market are on fire.” This is not only my situation, every poor person has the same problem.

Helal Uddin, when asked the reason for suffering at this age even though he has a son, said, “Poladar doesn’t last on his own. He also sells boisya fruit in the market. The condition of the market, his own family does not run – what else can we look after? So I will eat myself.

Helal Uddin’s eyes and face were tired, but he did not want to express it. Accepting the hard reality of life, he said, ‘As long as my body is good, I will continue like this. I don’t know what will happen later.