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Babu Bangladesh- A Novel
Babu Bangladesh is a celebrated novel written by a young Bangladesh novelist Numair Atif Choudhury. The book tells the story of Bangladesh through its protagonist Babu Bangladesh. The author is tracing the whereabouts of this young idealistic politician as he disappears one day from Dhaka. The author died in a car crash before the novel was published. It is making waves in Bangladesh, India and many parts of the world as the literary work of a genius.