'What is poverty, I have realized the meaning of it' The former governor of Bangladesh Bank said. Atiur Rahman I was born in an Ajapargaon in Jamalpur district. Walking on foot or cycling for 14 kilometers away. My uncle Mafizuddin was the only metric pass in the whole village. My father is a poor landless peasant. We have five brothers, three sisters. We ate no time to eat without eating and we had our own. My grandfather's financial position was rough. But he did not place my father in his house. We had so many brothers and sisters and parents in a small house far away from our grandfather's house. Mother received a small portion of her grandfather's property from her father's house. It bought three big has of land. The father used to do many difficulties in the land which was inappropriate for cultivation, he used to eat 5/6 months a year. Poverty is what I realized in my heart - there is no food, no clothes to wear; what a situation! My mother k