You might have heard the story about sushmita banerjee of kolkata. She is now in the social media. The story line is as below.
The Woman Who Escaped the Taliban Once — And Never Got the Chance Again
In the late 1980s, a young Bengali woman named Sushmita Banerjee fell in love with an Afghan businessman called Janbaz Khan, whom she'd met in Kolkata. Her family wanted nothing to do with the match. So on 2 July 1988, the couple married in secret, and Sushmita packed up her life and followed her new husband halfway across the world, to his ancestral village in Afghanistan's remote Paktika Province.
The homecoming she'd imagined never arrived. Almost as soon as she got there, she learned the truth: Janbaz already had a wife.
There was no going back easily, though. Afghanistan was changing around her, and not for the better. As the Taliban rose to power, Sushmita found herself trapped — confined to the house, watched constantly, and increasingly in danger simply for being who she was: an outsider, a Hindu, a woman who didn't cover her face the way she was told to. Eventually, the threats became formal. A fatwa was issued against her. She was told she would be executed on 22 July 1995.
She wasn't going to wait around to find out if they meant it. Twice she tried to flee and failed. On her third attempt, with a village headman's help, she got out — and by her own account, had to shoot three Taliban men with an AK-47 along the way. She made it to Kabul, and from there, on 12 August 1995, boarded a flight home to Kolkata.
Safe in India, she did what a lot of people who survive the unimaginable do: she wrote it all down. Her memoir, *Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou* — "A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife" — came out in 1997 and became a sensation. Six years later, it was turned into the Bollywood film *Escape from Taliban*, with Manisha Koirala playing her on screen. She kept writing after that too, book after book about her time under the Taliban and what it did to the women left behind there.
For years, that seemed to be the end of her Afghan story. It wasn't.
Sometime around 2013, Sushmita reconciled with Janbaz. And astonishingly, given everything, she went back — settling once more in Paktika, working as a health worker, filming the everyday lives of local women.
On the night of 4 September 2013, armed men came to her door. They tied up her husband first. Then they took her.
Her body was found the next morning, dumped near a religious school on the edge of Sharana, the provincial capital, riddled with bullets — somewhere between fifteen and twenty of them, by most accounts. She was 49 years old.
The Taliban's official spokesman denied any involvement. A separate, breakaway militia later said it was them — they claimed they'd killed her because they believed she was an Indian spy. Police in Paktika weren't so sure it was espionage at all; they pointed instead to her writing, her refusal to wear a burqa, her work with local women — any one of which, in that place, could be reason enough.
She had already written the story of surviving the Taliban once. She didn't get to write the ending of the second time.