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Hunger Pangs: When There's No Alternative

My pains that haunt me still today

The pain that still follow me  I entered boarding school as a child.  Bilot Sharif which is more or less six kilometres away from my village Dhaki.  There was a middle school there and I entered the sixth grade.  Our village is located in the plains at the foot of Rutta mountains.  There is a canal between our village and the mountain which offers a very beautiful view.  I remember before 1987 it was a small canal called Paharpur canal which looked very big at that time.  It has now been replaced by a large canal called the CRBC.  Maybe it will be replaced by a big canal in the future and our generations will be saying that when we were young, a small canal used to flow here.  In fact, there is nothing big or small.  We call one small or big relative to another. This canal chain  flows from Chashma Barrage at the place of Chashma.  Like every canal, Paharpur canal was no less than a blessing.  Where it irrigated agricultural land, it was also a source of entertainmen