Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.

The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.