The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.