Mashiul Alam was born in northern Bangladesh in 1966. He graduated in journalism from the Peoples’ Friendship University in Moscow in 1993. Currently he works at Prothom Alo, the leading daily in Bangladesh. He is the author of a dozen books including Second Night with Tanushree (a novel), Ghora Masud (a novella), Mangsher Karbar (The Business of Flesh) (short stories), and Pakistan (short stories).