Excerpt from Dear Diary~19th April 2024

Being a social worker was never a part of the plan when I was growing up. Though I always admired Moni and Baba for their work but I knew I can't understand people's unspoken words, it's huge. Destiny made me study the subject. I had to change my get up and look like one of them so that they can trust me with their deepest wounds. Gradually I learnt how to make them feel that "aami tahaderi lok". When I was working in Sundarbans and staying in that hut and eating rice with salt for days, that time also I was not sure if I was getting them. Today during my viva I was asked about my dissertation topic and why I have chosen it. After giving the answer when I was reflecting on my answer and for the first time in my whole 12 years journey of trying to be a Social Worker, I realised that I am speaking for them. It was not me, it was the Social Worker inside me who speaking and that realisation gave my heart a heavenly feeling.