New Delhi:
Sushmita Banerjee was all 25 years old when she met an Afghan Manilender, Jambaz Khan in a theater rehearsal in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was 1986. Sushmita’s friend played the role of Cupid. Sushmita and Jambaj used to meet once a week, for an hour, in the fluries in the city. A pastry was shared between coffee and both, they came to know “know” each other.
This was not enough, later by Banerjee, when he found himself in Kharna, deep inside the Taliban-followed Afghanistan, where Jambaz took him after his secret marriage on 2 July 1988 under the Special Marriage Act. Sushmita was a “Bengali Brahmin” girl. He married “Afghan Muslim” Jambaj against his parents’ wishes. When her parents discovered marriage, they tried to divorce them; but in vain. Sushmita left Kolkata for Kabul with Jobbaaz.
Sushmita was 27 when she married Jambaz. She did not turn into Islam.
Less than three years after reaching Afghanistan, Jambaj went away. He left Afghanistan to return to India, where he had his money business. Sushmita was not informed. He had gone. Just like that; As she wonders, the Taliban had removed her head to marry a Hindu woman.
“He left for his own agreement.”
Sushmita was left behind in Pktika province, living a bad dream, as the Taliban combined on the streets and killed any woman who dared to convince the orders.
Indian woman Uzma Ahmed found herself many years before living in a uniform nightmare in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan; And whose story is on the big screen in John Abraham and Sadia Kheteb-starrer Diplomatic This week.
Uzma called himself lucky that he returned to India.
For Sushmita, life was played in a slightly different way.
Kabulivala’s Bengali Bride
Sushmita Banerjee shot for fame in 1995, when her courageous escape from the Taliban’s clutches made headlines in Bengal and the country. In Kabulivala’s Bengali Bride ,Kabulivala’s Bengali BoyBengali, 1995), Banerjee explained in detail how his days used to shout in the mountains of Afghanistan and were measured in torture after his in -laws once left. Khan will record audio cassettes from Kolkata and post them to Banerjee every two months. “When the war is over, you will come to India,” there was avoiding them.
When Sushmita reached her husband’s house, she found that her first wife was Gulgutty, from which she married her 10 years ago. Sushmita was shocked, but made peace with it.
Banerjee told Rediff.com in 2003, “Gulagutty was very calm, shy and good. She used to call me Sahib Kamal.” Banerjee lived with Gulgutty, her three brother-in-law and her wives, and her husband Zambaz in Khan until Khan left for India.
In Afghanistan, the Taliban powers and madness were uncontrolled and soon took a turn for a worse. He made the beard mandatory for men and saved women invisible with his men. Newspapers were thrown, radio was banned, and books were made bonfire. Men had to attend the mosque five times a day. Women could not go to the hospital, not that a man touched them.
In Khan’s house, Banerjee had “no sleep, starvation and physical attacks” on the day of Banerjee. The misconduct by his brother-in-law was from physical to mental. There was no end to this. “They were not human,” Banerjee wrote in his memoir, “I am an informal prisoner here. Because the whole country is a prison.”
Village doctors in the eyes of Taliban
Afghanistan had barely a female doctor. This means that there was no cure for women usually. If they fell ill, they had to die at home because hospitals mean that the male doctor and any woman were not authorized by the Taliban to be touched by anyone except her husband.
Sushmita took basic training in nursing. She had also read some books on gynecology, which used to work in the incomprehensible reach of Afghanistan, where women depended on luck and limerx in the name of treatment. The Taliban had closed all colleges. No one could study the medicine.
It was under the circumstances that Banerjee opened his clinic and under the cover, talked to the women that they came to know about the injustice that they had met. In May 1995, his clinic was discovered by some men. They defeated the dead … okay, almost.
This attack on Banerjee inspired him to escape from Afghanistan and make up his mind about returning to Kolkata, where his family lived.
She was planning to escape from the Taliban. It was not going to be easy.
Escape from Taliban
First attempt: Sushmita, with the help of some well -wishers, he got a jeep herself, which took her to Islamabad in Pakistan. He knocked on the door of the Indian High Commission; But, for his shocks and pain, “handed back to the Taliban”.
Second attempt: Banerjee did not lose hope. He once again tried to escape from the Taliban. “This time, I ran all night,” Banerjee wrote in his book. He was arrested again.
After his second attempt to escape, the Taliban decided that he had enough for this woman. A fatwa was issued. He was to die on July 22, 1995.
Third attempt: The village head, Dranai Chacha loved Sushmita for her social work. The man’s son was killed by the Taliban, so he turned against him. The day Sushmita wanted to escape from the Taliban for the third time, she caught AK -47 “and shot three Taliban men”, she heard in her memoir. The chief helped her on a jeep and took her to Kabul.
“Close to Kabul, I was arrested. A 15-member group of Taliban questioned me. Many of them said that since I had run away from my husband’s house, I should be executed. However, I was able to explain them that since I was an Indian, I had the right to return to my country,” Banerjee wrote in an article in an article. Outlook in 1998.
“The inquiry continued through the night. The next morning, I was taken to the Indian Embassy, ​​from where I was given a safe route,” she wrote.
He was assigned a visa and passport, and left for Delhi.
It was raining when his flight landed in the Indian capital. From there, she left for Kolkata, where she came on 12 August 1995. When she made up her mind to leave Afghanistan after less than three months of that day, she was in Kolkata.
“Back to Calcutta, I united with my husband again. I don’t think he would ever be able to go back to his family,” Banerjee wrote.
Back to Afghanistan
For the next 18 years, Sushmita Banerjee stayed in India with her husband Jambaz and worked on her books, a Bollywood film starring Manisha Koirala (Escape from Taliban2003), and wanted to do something for women under the Taliban. He hoped that his film would come to the United Nations and he would intervene.
In 2013, Banerjee celebrated Eid for a week in Kolkata and went back to her husband’s house in Afghanistan. Khan went back home in Afghanistan and Banerjee wanted to live with him. By then she had also converted to Islam and took a new name, “Saeed Kamala”.
25 bullets and a silent buried
After Banerjee returned to Afghanistan, he resumed work as a health worker in Pakistan province. She was also filming the life of local women as part of her work.
The Taliban surprised it. On the night of September 4, 2013, he showed and forced Jambaz’s family in Kharna, the provincial capital of the Pakistan, and forced it. Sushmita was shot and shot. According to a report, he fired 25 bullets in his body, and threw it near Madrasa.
Banerjee’s in -laws in Afghanistan buried her body His brother surprised in Kolkata“Why did he have to die like this?”
