Some books suddenly get the status of classics after a long dormancy. This happens because of the relevance of the book to contemporary times. They are needed to focus on the present crisis although those books were written in a different context. But in going to discuss Sushmita Banerjee's Bengali book Kabuliwala's Bangali Bou which […]
Susmita Bandopadhyay AKA Sayeda Kamala was a writer and activist from India. Her works include the memoir Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife; 1997) based on her experience of marrying an Afghan and her time in Afghanistan during Taliban rule. The story was used as the basis for the Bollywood film Escape from …
Susmita Bandopadhyay AKA Sayeda Kamala was a writer and activist from India. Her works include the memoir Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife; 1997) based on her experience of marrying an Afghan and her time in Afghanistan during Taliban rule. The story was used as the basis for the Bollywood film Escape from …
Today, we find strange parallels in what is happening now and what she had related to them in her book written as a memoir Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou in 1995 (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife 1997); based on her experience of marrying an Afghan and her time in Afghanistan during Taliban rule, the book reveals the horrendous activities of the …