TITLE: Plight of Ayesha Begum

Ayesha begum has three sons and two daughters. Her husband was a landless farmer who used to work on other people’s land. With great effort they married their daughters off by the by the time they reached teenage. The sons also started working with their father as day laborers when they were old enough to help.

By the time they were about seventeen yours old and all of them had left to work in nearby towns to earn money. At first they used to send money to their parents occasionally. But after getting married they barely had enough to support their own families. Ayesha begum and her husband are now old and feeble. Years of malnutrition and deprivation have made them look older than their years. All they are left with now is there broken little thatched house. Out of desperation Ayesha begum has started begging in the village to feed her old, invalid husband and herself. She does not know what ails him neither does she has the means to find out. She is too busy collecting food for survival.

Now she is experiencing the curse of the poverty in her last period of life.