Banerjee, who defied her family to marry Khan and stayed for years with him in Afghanistan, in 1998 wrote the bestselling memoir "Kabuliwalar Bangali Bou" (A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife) offering a vivid description of the suffering of women under the Taliban. She also described her daring escape from the clutches of militants.
The author, who recently moved back to Afghanistan to live with her husband, was dragged out of her home and shot dead by suspected Taliban gunmen in Sharan city of Afghanistan's Paktika province Wednesday night.
