Relief work
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When we were students of ninth grade we came across a story, entitled Relief Work, in our Bengali textbook. As the story goes, Hamid ,the protagonist of the story, joins relief work out of his love for the suffering masses. Interestingly, all his enthusiasm and devotion for the salvage operation melt into thin air when he discovers, to his shock, the ugly faces of those so-called relief workers. He finds that they are more interested in helping themselves with the relief materials, instead of serving the people in distress. This apathy on the part of those workers forces some of those poor people to steal relief stuff at night. Once some of these people are caught in the act of stealing and are handed over to the law enforcers and branded as rogues. As the country is reeling under the rushing flow of floodwater, relief work has become a buzzword. But we are not aware of the ground realities of the said relief operation. We can only hope that this time around the relief workers will remain true to their calling.
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