Humayun Ahmed
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Humayun Ahmed (13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and professor.
Quotes
[edit]- So many people are hanged for no good reason, so many people die by the roadside and there is hardly any public headache over these. Yet, here was a fictional character being hanged and the public are up in arms. I was quite taken aback by all this.
- Both love and hate are written in human eyes
Those who understand less, are the happiest in this world. Humayun Ahmed (Tandrabilas 2012 Interview with BBC, on the public agitation over Baker Bhai's hanging.
Quotes about Ahmed
[edit]- Humayun's works are the most profound and most fruitful that literature has experienced since the time of Tagore and Nazrul.
- Interview with Times of India], by Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus.
- A skilled photographer equipped with a camera with a very powerful lens who captures mainly photographs of ordinary birthday parties.
- Criticising Ahmed on his capabilities, by educationist, writer and his younger brother, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal.
