13 Facts About Sushmita Banerjee

Sushmita Banerjee, known as Sushmita Bandhopadhyay and Sayeda Kamala, was a writer and activist from India.

Sushmita Banerjee's works include the memoir Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou based on her experience of marrying an Afghan and her time in Afghanistan during Taliban rule.

Sushmita Banerjee was murdered at age 50 by suspected Taliban jihadists during the evening of 4 September or in the early morning hours of 5 September 2013, outside her home in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.

Sushmita Banerjee was born in Calcutta to a middle-class Bengali family.

Sushmita Banerjee's father worked in the civil defense department and her mother was a homemaker.

Sushmita Banerjee was the only sister to her three brothers.

Sushmita Banerjee first met her future husband Janbaz Khan, an Afghan businessman, at a theatre rehearsal in Calcutta and married him on 2 July 1988.

Sushmita Banerjee then discovered that her husband had a first wife, Gulguti.

Sushmita Banerjee reached Kabul, and took a flight back to Kolkata on 12 August 1995.

Sushmita Banerjee lived in India until 2013, and published several books.

Sushmita Banerjee's corpse was found early the next day on the outskirts of provincial capital Sharana.

Later, a spokesman for a renegade Taliban militia group announced it had killed Sushmita Banerjee because they believed she was "an Indian spy".

Sushmita Banerjee wrote Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou in 1995.