People move to cities in search of work and aid to fill their stomachs. There are better opportunities for work in the cities, compared to villages. Better health and civic facilities are also present in the large cities and towns to meet the demands of the population there. Sometimes natural calamities and destruction of land also force farmers to shift to the city for labour work. In the story, Saheb and his family had to shift to Seemapuri because their farmland in Dhaka got destroyed in the storms. They had no alternative other than shifting to the city to fill their empty stomachs.