Sushmita banerjee biography

Author

For the dancer and choreographer, see Sushmita Banerjee (dancer).

Sushmita Banerjee, also known as Sushmita Bandhopadhyay and Sayeda Kamala^[1] (/ – 4/5 September ), was a writer and activist from India.

Her works include the memoir Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife; )^[2] 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 Taliban.

She was murdered at age 50 by suspected Taliban jihadists during the evening of 4 September or in the early morning hours of 5 September , outside her home in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.^[3]

Life

Sushmita Banerjee was born in Calcutta (present-day Kolkata, India) to a middle-class Bengali family.

Sushmita banerjee biography

Her father worked in the civil defense department and her mother was a homemaker. She was the only sister to her three brothers. She first met her future husba