What makes us to smile?

It is very rare a person smiles at a peer nowadays. People thing that they are losing something when they smile. Honestly how many us know the name of the very nearest neighbor of our home? There are incidents where we remember the face of a person but not who he is. It makes an argument inside us whether to smile at that person or not? At most situations, he also will be in the same problem. This is the reality that we gained with our modern life styles. Man in this current global village smiles only when he gets money and anything that selfishly satisfy him. But if we ask ourselves that is it the exact joyfulness of our life? No. Then what makes us to smile? There is a thing than money that decides our joy and life. It all depends on a person’s mind set. One can even make breakfast happily with a cup of porridge. But some are not. One can study with a diminishing lamp. Others are not. One can enjoy the nature. Some are not. Similarly one can smile with pain while others are not.

I am a refugee

Wait I am a refugee
I know how others and you laugh at me
But
I don’t mind

I just want a cup of porridge
To fill my stomach

I just want a shelter
To relax

I just want a cup of water
When I get thirst

I don’t mind whether
I can bath or not

I don’t mind those who
Call me as beggar

I don’t mind those who tell
I don’t have a country

You may ask why
I don’t mind them?

Because
I was better than in position
Those who laugh at me and
Those who chase me

But now I am a refugee
Wait
I am counting my losses

I lost all my relatives
I lost all belongings

I lost my education
I lost my identity

I lost my ambition
I lost my shy

I lost my feelings
Simply I lost me

I couldn’t fix an amount
For my losses

So So I am
Priceless

So definitely I am better
Than you

I don’t mind even if you
Laugh now

A family’s story in Bangladesh war

Thamima Anam’s Golden Age is a well-liked novel. It is similar to the novels such as Monika Ali’s Brick Lane and Sadi Smith’s white teeth. Nowadays Thamima Anam is living at London.

She mentioned in an interview with BBC how the incidents that happened in her family gave spirit to the novel. Golden Age says how a mother’s life who is Rohana got changed with the war. Anam told that she was planning to write it with the changes in political leader’s lives. But she changed her plan. Golden Age describes how people are affected by war.

“It was very interesting for me to write about this war and impacts.” she said. All her family members were attached to this war anyhow. Some joined in Gorilla organization. Some were freedom fighters and others joined with student organizations.

When there was war in Bangladesh that means before 36 years all were fighting against enemies without any religious and race differences. But the current reality says that there is a huge religious fanaticism.

The major character Rohana was Anam’s grandma in the real life. “Rohana’s husband was killed in 1950s. But she hadn’t married anyone after that. One day a few freedom fighters entered into the garden and hided some weapons. After a few months they came and brought the weapons with them. But it became as an unforgettable incident in her life because they forgot to fill the bunger that they used to hide the weapons. Some army members noticed it and asked “why did you put up a bunger?” So Rohana told that they wanted to make a well. But the army members went into the home and asked the same question with Rohana’s son. Fortunately he also replied the same lie. But anyone didn’t think that a day will come like this. Anyhow they all escaped from that situation.

There is lot of real incidents like this in Golden Age. Anam interviewed people who are affected by war. Golden Age represents not only Bangladesh also other countries which faced war.