In the city, you have to work through the night sometimes. You have to say 'Yes' to the boss all the time. Here, I'm my own boss. But Mathura, as he feeds the family's single cow, says there is no room for his three younger sons. He has two older sons to work in the fields.
Government jobs are permanent.
Dressed in blue slacks and a neatly pressed white T-shirt, Ram looks as though he does not belong in the village any more. His wife, Guddi, who is expected to stay inside the family compound when she visits Biharipur, is not happy about village life, either. She prefers the city, and she wants Ashok's new wife, a village girl, to move with them back to Delhi, where she alone cares for the three brothers. But really, it would be nice to have another woman in Delhi. She would like Delhi.