[1] Hye taught economics at the University of Dhaka for two years before joining the Civil Service of Pakistan in 1965.

[5] In 2008, he published Boyhood in British India and Pakistan, a collection of autobiographical columns that appeared in Daily News under the banner Aide Memoire.

The store centers around a politically active girl Seema leading the slogan shouting brigade who is sexually exploited by a senior politician, the man who recruits her.

[6] The publication angered readers and amid protests Prothom Alo issued an apology and retracted the story.

[7] Few days later, M Wahiduzzaman, a professor at the University of Dhaka, filed a petition with the High Court as a public interest litigation saying the story written by Hye "is provocative and insulting to the women of the society".