Question

How did Patol babu earn his living all through these years?

Answer 1

Patol Babu’s life was quite smooth, financially particularly until he was sacked in 1943. Since then Patol Babu had to struggle to make living. At first he opened a variety store which he had to wind up after five years. Then he had a job in a Bengali firm which he gave up in disgust when his boss began to treat him in too high-handed a fashion. Then, for ten long years, starting as an insurance salesman, Patol Babu tried every means of earning a livelihood without ever succeeding in improving his lot. Of late he had been paying regular visits to a small establishment dealing in scrap iron where a cousin of his had promised him a job.

Answer 2

Patol Babu had a job in a railway factory when he lived, in Kanchrapara. In 1934, he was offered    higher    pay in a clerical post with Hudson and Kimberley in Calcutta and was lucky to find a flat in Nepal Bhattacharji Lane. In 1943, a sudden retrenchment in his office due to the war, cost him his nine-year-old job. Ever since, Patol Babu was struggling to make a living. He opened a variety store which he had to wind up after five years. Then, he had a job in a Bengali firm which he gave up and then worked as an insurance salesman for ten long years and these days he was without a job.    ;    .