"So many people are hanged for no good reason, so many people die by the roadside and there is hardly any public headache over these. Yet, here was a fictional character being hanged and the public are up in arms. I was quite taken aback by all this."
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Science fiction authorsPlaywrights from BangladeshNovelists from BangladeshAcademics from BangladeshShort story writers from Bangladesh
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2012 Interview with BBC, on the public agitation over Baker Bhai's hanging.
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Humayun Ahmed
Humayun Ahmed (13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and professor.
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