Biography
Hasan Khurshid Rumi was born on November 2, 1959 in Chittagong. Was grown-up in Old Dhaka, the historical part of the capital of Bangladesh. His grand father was one of the constitution-maker of India and a famous lawer who migrated into East Pakistan, which became Bangladesh. Rumi saw a dogfight between a Pakistani and an Indian fighter plane in 1971 from rooftop during the liberation war. Rumi graduated from Jagannath University.
He saw mother's fiction reading experience and grand father's collection. These inspired him to be a writer. Now, he is a full-time pen-worker. he also made a huge collection of books both in Bengali and English.
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