They are going to take Moti Miya’s eyes out with a date thorn tonight. During the evening prayers. Idris from Nobiganj is going to do it. He’s done it before. They are keeping Moti in Borkot Shahib’s shed. Moti’s hands and feet are tied up. Several people are standing around to guard him. This is […]
Humayun Ahmed
HUMAYUN AHMED wrote more than 300 fiction and non-fiction novels, many of which were best-sellers in Bangladesh. His breakthrough novel Nondito Noroke was written when he was an undergraduate student; he continued to write best sellers until his death in 2012. Nobel Laureate economist Muhammad Yunus assessed Ahmed's overall impact: "Humayun's works are the most profound and most fruitful that literature has experienced since the time of Tagore and Nazrul." Similarly, according to poet Al Mahmud, "one golden age of Bengali literature ended with Tagore and Nazrul and another began" with Ahmed. Times of India credited Humayun as "the person who single-handedly shifted the capital of Bengali literature from Kolkata to Dhaka." Sunil Gangopadhyay described him as the most popular writer in the Bengali language for a century. Ahmed’s brother, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (also an eminent author and scholar of Bangladesh), has been known to say, “Humayun Ahmed taught an entire generation of Bengalis how to love.”
