Continuing our new series of featuring writers from across the South Asian region, we interview Shazia Omar, dubbed as one of Bangladesh’s most exciting new authors.

By Farhana Shaikh
You’re having another bad day at the office and quite frankly you’re boss is determined to make things difficult for you…you reach for that bottom drawer, and pull out that manuscript you’ve half written, blushing as you read over the details of that last love affair you had with that boy last summer. You hold back the tears before returning the elephant eared pieces of papers, back where they belong, mutter some evil thoughts towards the boss and dream of the day you’re discovered as the next big …

When Abhijit Dasgupta dreamt of writing a novel he never thought the process of getting an agent would take him on such a journey; addicted to that Send button he queried no less than a thousand agents. And rejection was going to hinder him.