ISTIAK KARIM

The slum dwellers usually earn their living by rickshaw pulling or working in different households in the capital, and during work break they usually take a quick nap.But I found this man exceptional.He has a poetic mind and he spend his leisure time writing poets.Who knows may be some day he may become a famous poet!

The distance between the rail lines and the shanties are hardly four to six feet.Still the dwellers living here as they do not have any real place to call home.

People across Bangladesh are getting killed by crushing under the train and the reason behind it is carelessness.

People living in the slum share common bath.Somehow they managed to make their houses with bamboo,plastics,woods and tins.In this situation having attached bathroom is a joke to them.

Only in the middle of the night this railway becomes a quite place.Rest of the time it is full of crowd and noise.

llegal makeshift shops are set up on Karwan Bazar railway tracks everyday.Police caught shopkeepers many time and released after they were made to sign a bond promising they would not set up shops on or along the rail tracks.But every time they got released the reopened their shops.

Living in this slum is very dangerous and accidents are daily issues here.But the situation doesn't create any difference to the slum dwellers.Everyday they are facing this and they are used to it.

'Sunnat E Khatna' is the term for male circumcision carried out as an Islamic culture by Muslims.As it is considered a sign of belonging to the wider Islamic community; it is an occasion for Muslims to celebrate. Women living beside the railway celebrating the occasion with the boy whose "Khatna' was done that day.