Atul is my next-door neighbour We live in a neighbourhood comprising people of different regions and cultures. Most of my neighbours are from the lower income groups and as such all of them work hard for a living. There are rubber tappers, labourers, clerks, fishmongers, doctors and contractors. Some are unemployed. Nevertheless, we live in harmony and we help each other out whenever we can.
Of all these hard-working people, there is none who can match Atul He is a person with boundless energy and possesses a single-minded drive. By looking at a typical day in his life we can get an idea about his work-load.
Atul gets up at three in the morning. I can hear him getting ready to leave the house because the thin wooden wall that separates our houses does not prevent sound from passing through, I know he goes straight to the fish market to
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