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I am Pintu,
and I was born on 5th September 1984. I joined the group in 1994. I enjoy
taking photographs, listening to music, writing poetry, fishing, planting
trees and taking down date palm trees.
I have experience
in different types of work alongside photography. I have supplied beetlenut,
date palm juice and molasses. I have worked on the land and planted many
types of paddy. Right now I have a small business that takes up my time,
alongside my studies. The work I do now doesn't pay very well. When I
was younger, work seemed like a game. It is difficult to work from my
home village in Barisal, and I only get 1-2 days work in a month. I give
most of my pay to my father, and keep some as pocket money for myself.
Since we are a working class family, my parents depend on what I earn
in between my studies.
Something
really funny happened to me once. On my brother's wedding night, we came
to Dhaka and hired 12 rickshaws at around 10 PM. Me and one of my relatives
were on a rickshaw together. I soon fell asleep and rolled off the rickshaw,
without even waking up. A couple of hours later, after my dad and brother
had poured water on my head to wake me up, I regained consciousness, and
asked, 'What am I doing here? I want to see my sister- in-law'.
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