This portrait has been photographed on 16 June 2012 at Mawa in Munshiganj, Bangladesh.
Her name is Sonia. She was a mother of a boy of around one year age. She along with her husband and child used to live in Lauhajang Thana in Munshingonj District. However, life drove them away from home and they have been living on their boat for a week.
During a chat with her, I have learned that she and her husband had just returned from fishing in Padma River. While she was preparing for another round of fishing in indigenous way, her husband had gone to the nearby market to sell their previous catch.
Their life apparently do not resemble a luxurious life filled with abundance. However, after so many years I still reckon that smile and simplicity she was carrying. They were certainly happy despite living on a boat and earning livlihood from river.
Oh! How simple the life was! I sincerely wish they are all living a happy life even now. May the Almighty bless them with joy, happiness, and well-being. Wish that her little child will grow as an enlightened human being and certainly will relive his parents from miserable struggle.
Gandhi Said “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
