সুস্মিতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়

This author was killed recently and so far I've been unable to track down any copies of this book online. But I plan to keep trying.

Indian author slain in Afghanistan by militants
Story authors: Hashmat Baktash and Mark Magnier
LA Times, September 5, 2013

KABUL, Afghanistan — Indian author Sushmita Banerjee, an advocate for women's rights who wrote a book about her escape from the Taliban, was slain by Afghan militants, authorities said Thursday.

Mukhlis Afghan, a spokesman for the governor of southeastern Afghanistan's Paktika province, said the Taliban took Banerjee, 49, from her house and killed her in Sharana, the provincial capital. Her body was reportedly dumped near a religious school.

...Banerjee's memoir, “A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife,” detailed life in Afghanistan and her dramatic escape from the Taliban in the mid-1990s. "Escape from Taliban," a Bollywood movie based on the book, was released in 2003, turning her into something of a celebrity in India.

In her memoir, Banerjee says life was “tolerable” in Afghanistan until the Taliban cracked down in 1993, ordering her to close the small pharmacy she ran from her house and branding her “a woman of poor morals.” She fled to Pakistan in 1994, she wrote, but her brother-in-law found her in Islamabad and forced her back to Afghanistan, concerned that her actions brought shame to the family.

"They kept me under house arrest and branded me an immoral woman," she wrote. "The Taliban threatened to teach me a lesson. I knew I had to escape."

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