In this interview, taken on the 2nd day of DLF, he talks about his career both as a journalist and fiction writer, and the idea behind writing the book. You’re both a fiction writer and a journalist. But in that case, when you’re writing historical fiction, how do you keep a balance between fiction and history? I hate research for fiction because it seems like a limitation on your freedom. I would say that fiction is something you write in spite of the research that you’ve done, not because the research you’ve done.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 19, 2018 08:26 UTC