When Mr Fazley Elahi Rubel's family fell on hard times, the 30-year-old Bangladeshi had to stop his business management studies to come to Singapore as a migrant worker.
Leaving his country meant parting with not just his parents and five siblings, but also his reading habit - there is a lack of books in Bengali, the national language of Bangladesh, in Singapore.
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