Why did you come here? 2
It is now two and a half years since I came here. 3
For a job,for work, to earn money, this is why I came here. 4
How many years ago? 5
Two and a half years. 6
We came here for money. 7
There was money back there too but here I can earn more in little time. 8
One person can earn Rs 2000 - 3000. 9
In the village? 10
In the village getting a job is not so easy. 11
To get a government job you need a lot of qualifications, 12
backing, money, everything. We do not have this. 13
What kind of jobs can you get in the village? If there is no government job? 14
If you cannot get a government job, in the village there are no companies. 15
What can you do there - some work in farms or in houses. 16
It is not permanent. It is temporary. 17
You work for one day and then sit around for a week. This is not right. 18
Nazrul? 19
I came in 2000. I have been here for 9 years. 20
I too came to earn a little. 21
First I was small. Now I am grown up so I should earn a little more. 22
I think I will not stay long here. I will go back to my village. 23
It is better in the village than here. Here no one respects you. 24
In Haryana, Gurgaon, if a Bengali makes a mistake they get beaten up. 25
We cannot live nicely or easily here. 26
So I do not like it very much here - in Haryana, in Gurgaon. 27
Why do they abuse you? 28
Because they are like that. 29
Even 9 years ago? 30
Yes, 9 years ago it was even worse. 31
It was even more before. Now they have the money - so it is less. 32
So you are here with your parents? 33
Yes. 34
What did your parents do in the village? 35
In the village what else could they do? They did farming. 36
Do you still have land? - Yes. 37
You haven't sold it? - No.. 38
So after coming here, how did you get the first room, the first job? 39
When I came first, I came with a friend. 40
He used to be here, then he went to the village and brought me with him. 41
First I stayed with him. It takes time to find a good job. 42
I found a job after two - three days. 43
What was your first job? 44
It was a company. A small one. A guest house. 45
To clean there? 46
Yes, cleaning in the guest house. 47
So it took 3 days? 48
Yes, after two-three days. 49
This was fast. 50
Yes, I found work fast because my friend took me. 51
He had already spoken with the people 52
that his friend would come and they should employ him. 53
Is your friend also from the village? 54
Yes, he also came from my village. 55
And Nazrul? 56
When I came, as I was small, there was no work to be found. 57
That time, I was 10 years old, and people did not give work to small kids. 58
So I stayed at home. Papa and mummy went to work. 59
Did you parents know anybody before coming here? 60
No. my mother's brother came first. 61
He was my uncle in the village, and we came with him. 62
So we used to stay at home and sit and eat. 63
When we first came to Haryana, there were no big flats. 64
It was like a forest. And we too lived in shacks. We did not have a flat. 65
Now we have a flat. Gurgaon has become such a nice city. 66
It was not so nice before. There weren't many roads. 67
Now there are many roads, and too many cars. 68
It was not so much before. They were poor and very bastardly. 69
What was your parents' first job? 70
My parents went to the village some days ago and have returned, and will go again. 71
You father did not have a job. What kind of work did he get? 72
Cleaning. 73
What differences did you notice, as compared with the village? 74
There is a great difference, because there are no big buildings in the village, 75
no huge markets, shopping malls, cars, many people 76
- there are also not so many people in the village. 77
Because there are fields in the village. There is one house here, another there. Small houses. 78
In the village there is not so much smell, not so many cars, not so many roads. 79
I have come to Gurgaon for the first time in my life. 80
When I came here, I had not been to such a big town. 81
I thought I would get lost. I did not know what I would say if someone spoke to me. 82
That time I did not speak any Hindi, only Bangla. 83
If somebody asked, "What is your name?" I used to think, "What should I say?" 84
Because I am a Bengali. My language is Bangla. 85
Now I do not have any difficulties. 86
Before I had many difficulties. Because I came alone. 87
I had no parents, no relatives here. 88
All the other Bengalis who are here have some relative, 89
but I until now, I do not have any relative - only friends. No relative by blood. 90
Here the habits are a little bad, because the Bengalis drink a lot, 91
quarrel with their wives and do not talk to each other with respect. 92
How did you like the city? 93
If there is one vacancy here, there are ten young men who want to have it. 94
So what can you do? So which one of the 10 will get the job? 95
So there is always this danger about jobs, a lot of difficulty. 96
So now the jobs are in danger. Take the cleaning job. 97
How much salary do we get? Rs 3000-4000. What can you do with Rs 3000-4000? 98
Nothing. We have so many expenses. Just the rent for one room is Rs. 1500. 99
You speak Hindi and Bangla, - can you work in a call center with that? 100
No. Because to work in a call centre, the first thing you need is qualifications. 101
And the qualifications that you need, I don't have them. 102
What do you mean by qualification? 103
It means education. You need at least a Bachelor. 104
And the BA should be in English Honours. 105
But there was no English in my village. 106
There is no Hindi, either. Only Bangla. We learn Hindi after coming here. 107
What are the differences between working in a factory and the work in a guest house? 108
There is a big difference between a guest house and a factory. 109
What is it? 110
The work in a guest house is a little easy. You don't have to work that hard. 111
We work in an air conditioned room not in the heat. 112
We can work freely. Nobody is there to watch. 113
Factories are full of the noise of the machines and there are many people. 114
So it is difficult. 115
There are no difficulties in a guest house. Because there are few people in a huge space. 116
In a space where there are 100 people, it is hot and difficult. So it is inconvenient in a factory. 117
Are there promotion prospects in a guest house? 118
The rank above us, that of a supervisor. 119
In a guest house, the supervisor should have a minimum qualification of a B.A. 120
And without a B.A.? - You cannot earn anything. 121
How much do you earn in the guest house? 122
We earn Rs. 4200 per month. 123
How do you manage? What is your rent? 124
Rs 1400 - Rs.1500 for a room. Minimum. 125
What other expenses do you have? 126
If you live alone, it is very hard. I have taken another person in my room. 127
So the rent is reduced to Rs. 700 - Rs. 800. 128
If you take one more person, it becomes even less. 129
Your parents lived in the same village as you? 130
Yes, in the same village. If you have the one home why should they go to another village. 131
How long do you want to stay in the city? 132
I have come here for many days - not a lifetime. 133
After living here for a year or so, I will go back to my village, and live with my parents. 134
Then I will come here again for 6 months - 1 year. 135
But we don't want to stay here permanently. 136
But you have this limitation - you cannot get a job in the village. How can you go home? 137
We can get a job in the village. 138
Only for what we earn Rs. 10,000 here, in the village we can get Rs. 3,000 at most. 139
Rs 3,000 is also difficult. 140
Nazrul ist Muslim, Lochnan ist Hindu. Could you also be friends in the village? 141
We are friends, but people who are not friends think "this person should not talk to me, should not touch me". 142
"It is not good to meet with them". They think like this in the village. 143
It is less here. It does not work like that here. Here the friendship works. 144
Like in the village, if I go to somebody's house they stop me. 145
They say, "Don't come in, don't touch me". It happens a lot even today. 146
We - one of us is a Hindu, the other is a Muslim, but we are close friends. 147
But in the village - its not so in my house, but I have sometimes seen in some houses, 148
when a Muslim friend comes into a Hindu's house, they think it is not correct. 149
I have no problems with it, but some older people still think it is not right. 150
But my family and my parents never think like this. 151
I think differently. He is a good friend of mine - that's what I think.