Dhaka, July 2 -- In Hasan Azizul Huq's remarkable fiction 'Sabitri Upakhyan' (the tale of Sabitri), the author painstakingly recreates the experience of a young girl who was abducted by a gang of three. After gang-raping her, they hide her away and then move her from village to village, finding shelter with influential local people. They too gleefully join in assaulting her, killing little by little every bit of her desire to live. Finally, as the news reaches the police, the three rapists are arrested and put on the dock. Ironically, not just the rapists but Sabitri too are put on trial. Everyone has a theory of why she was raped, usually finding fault with her instead of holding rapists accountable for their horrific violence against he...