His father, Kazi Shahid Ahmed, was the founder and chairman of the Gemcon Group, and also a writer and novelist in the Bengali language.

The book is a political satire that charts the fate of two friends – a newspaper editor and a successful property developer – whose relationship is bitterly tested when they find themselves on opposite sides of a crisis that upends their country's social order.

[8][9] An early work of Ahmed's, Forty Steps (3 novella), has been published in a bi-lingual edition by Bengal Lights.

[11] Ahmed steered KKTE to emerge as the first successful organic tea estate in Bangladesh.

[25] Kazi Anis Ahmed, a writer and publisher of English daily Dhaka Tribune and online news portal Bangla Tribune, has been elected as the new president of PEN Bangladesh -- an international organization of writers, bloggers and journalists.