The story of women within the Bangladeshi socio-economic context is diverse, giving women the challenge of living many incarnations during the course of a single day. A married woman is not just a wife and a mother; she is a provider of comfort, a team player and in this particular story an essential contributor to the economic aspect of her nuclear family.
She is Salma Tahir. A woman of substance living in Khilkhet, Dhaka, with her husband Tahir Hasan and her two children Taha aged 8 and a half years and Nuhan aged 6 years. In the year 2002 she married Tahir Hasan on Valentine’s Day and has ever since maintained a brave smiling face to bring comfort to her family and fight on the daily battles. Salma’s many roles are as diverse as Durga and from whom her family expects just as much. In my depiction of her rigors of everyday life her primary role, that of a mother and a housewife becomes the foreground and her small window of personal worth creates the background. Through her ability she contributes to her family’s monthly income. However, her time for this important function is squeezed between school timing and household chores.
Salma is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts, Dhaka. She contributes directly to the total household income by designing clothes for different boutiques in Dhaka and London. Instead of devoting all her time in earning via her unique talent, she has chosen to use her abilities in the small window of time life provides her between caring for her
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