Shahnawaz

My name is Shahnawaz Ali.

I am ten years old and have two brothers and two sisters. My mother Ajmeri Khatoon is a housemaid. My father passed away a year ago. He used to work in the jute mill.

They call me Irfan at home, while in Talimi Haq School my friends jokingly call me “Mahatma Gandhi”. My elder brother Shamsher works in a cloth store. He and I were in the same class (2) in Howrah High School when my father expired. He then had to give up his studies and start working. My younger brother studies in Talimi Haq School, while my sisters stopped attending school after a couple of years in Howrah High and then in Talimi Haq.

I am now in Class 2 in Howrah High. I like Urdu and would like to join the police.