A Winter Morning

 

A winter morning is cold and foggy. Everything seems hazy and indistinct. Grasses are wet with dew drops. When the sun rises, dew drops sparkle like pearls. Old people and children shiver in cold. Poor people gather straw and make fire to bask in the heat. Animals, too, are helpless. They hide themselves in the corner of the house and try to save themselves from the biting cold outside. People get up late in the morning. Elderly people and the children usually get up a bit later to evade cold of the early morning. Working people get out of doors when the fog disappears and when the sun is hot. People usually eat homemade cakes with 'date juice' and enjoy the warmth of the early sun sitting outside their homes. Bangalees settled in abroad, make it a point to come and spend the winter in Bangladesh. They find the winter here pleasant as the winter in any European country is tremendously cold. A winter morning in Bangladesh is thus quite fascinating for them. My personal feeling about a winter morning is that it is a bane for the poor but a boon for the rich.