He works as a cook in a hotel owned by Bechu Chakraborty near Ranaghat railway station.

Here customers are often cheated and Padma, a maid at the establishment, steals the hotel's food.

Here he is regularly mocked and insulted by Padma, who, though only a maid, is the owner's paramour and has immense influence over him.

After getting a loan from Kusum and Atashi, a girl from his village, Hajari starts his own hotel.

At the end of the novel, Hazari signs a contract to manage a large railway hotels which are owned by a gujrati company and goes to Bombay.