Author: Rafida Bonya Ahmed

Rafida Bonya Ahmed was attacked along with her husband, Avijit Roy, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 26, 2015. They were leaving a book fair that was featuring Roy’s latest book, Biswasher Virus (The Virus of Faith). Ahmed is also a leading freethinker: she is closely involved with Mukto-Mona.com, a Yahoo group for freethinking Bengalis, and she is the author of Biborton Er Poth Dhorey (Treading in the Path of Evolution), considered to be the best book in Bengali on evolution. This article was translated by Shabnam Nadiya.