He divorced his first wife. I don't think he was an Awami Leaguer. He was of course pro-independence though, but never used negative stereotype of religious people or mosque imams in his literary works, rather tried to project a positive image of religious persons in spite of his father's death in the hands of Pak Army or 'Razakars'. I often forget what I read in his novels, but I still remember a plot where a young woman, being prohibited by a mosque Imam to climb up a tamarind tree, asks the Imam if Allah would be angry if she climbs up the tree to pick some fruits and the Imam replies "Allah doesn't become angry so easily, but we are human beings and we fear the wrath of human beings more than the wrath of Allah".
