ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -While Khaled Hosseini’s novel The Kite Runner exposed bacha bazi, greater international pressure is needed to bring the odious practice to an end.

Detailed explanation-2: -Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Reports of the kite-flying ban inspired Khaled Hosseini to write his celebrated novel, The Kite Runner. Kites reappeared immediately when the Taliban militia was driven from Kabul soon after September 11, 2001.

Detailed explanation-4: -His books, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And the Mountains Echoed, have been published in over seventy countries and sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. In 2006 Khaled was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.