Tasalimā Nāsarina

Lajja, The Controversial Novel By Bangladeshi Writer Taslima Nasrin, Is A Savage Indictment Of Religious Extremism And Man S Inhumanity To Man. The Duttas-Sudhamoy, Kironmoyee, And Their Two Children, Suranjan And Maya-Have Lived In Bangladesh All Their Lives. Despite Being Part Of The Country S Small Hindu Community, That Is Terrorized At Every Opportunity By Muslim Fundamentalists, They Refuse To Leave Their Country, As Most Of Their Friends And Relatives Have Done. Sudhamoy, An Atheist, Believes With A Naive Mix Of Optimism And Idealism That His Motherland Will Not Let Him Down.... And Then, On 6 December 1992, The Babri Masjid At Ayodhya In India Is Demolished By A Mob Of Hindu Fundamentalists. The World Condemns The Incident, But Its Fallout Is Felt Most Acutely In Bangladesh, Where Muslim Mobs Begin To Seek Out And Attack The Hindus.... The Nightmare Inevitably Arrives At The Duttas Doorstep-And Their World Begins To Fall Apart.... Unremittingly Dark And Menacing, The Novel Exposes The Mindless Bloodthirstiness Of Fundamentalism And Brilliantly Captures The Insanity Of Violence In Our Time.

Lajja

Love Poems of Taslima Nasreen is a selection of Nasreen's love poems from several books. She is renowned for her work as an activist for women's rights and against religion fundamentalism.Internationally known and widely travelled, Taslima Nasreen was born in Mymensingh, Bangladesh. She studied medicine and worked as a gynaecologist and anesthesiologist in hospitals in Dhaka. During her medical studies, she gained prominence as a strongly feminist columnist. Her novel Shame was banned in Bangladesh in 1993, on the ground that its 'inflammatory' tone excited tensions between Muslims and Hindus. Conservative elements in Bangladesh demanded her execution some years back for blasphemy. Nasreen secretly left Bangladesh and took asylum in Sweden where she now lives.

Love Poems of Taslima Nasreen

Novel, based on the story of a married couple.

Śodha

Autobiography of a Bengali authoress from Bangladesh.

My Stormy Youth, an Autobiography

Wild Wind

Translated by Taslima Nasreen herself, the poems in All About Women reflect the passion which makes her a feminist, a staunch fighter for women's rights and against religious fundamentalism and oppression against women. They speak for a broad and secular outlook. As she says in one of her poems, 'From now on let religion's other name be humanity'.

All about Women

Homecoming

Articles with reference chiefly to Bangladesh and India.

No Country For Women (pb)

Bangladeshi Writer Taslima Nasrin`S First Major In Exile, This Is A Sensitive Retelling Of Her Growing Up As Part Of An Extended Family In Bangladesh And Erstwhile East Pakistan.

An Autobiography

My Girlhood

Records Taslima Nasreen`S Varied Experiences Of Child Hood, Her Growth As A Writer And An Outspoken Spokesperson For All The Oppressed And Exploited Women Of Her Country (Bangladesh). Taslima Foreground Hitherto Repressed Knowledges About Female Desire.

Selected Columns

The Game In Reverse is the first volume of Nasrin's poetry in English translation. Presented here are more than forty of the poems that have gathered both an international following and considerable controversy for the author.

Poems

The Game in Reverse

Not since Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses has the publication of a book provoked such mob violence, public outcries for the arrest and death of the author, and international efforts to secure her safety.The animosity and bloodletting between Muslim and Hindu extremists on the Indian subcontinent is centuries old. When the Barbri Mosque at Ayodhya, India, was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists on December 6, 1992, fierce mob reprisals took place against the Hindu minority in Muslim Bangladesh. These incidents form the backdrop for Dr. Taslima Nasrin's explosive and courageous book, Shame, describing the nightmarish fate of one family within her country's small Hindu community.Her book so angered Muslim leaders that a fatwa, or holy judgment, was invoked, offering thousands of dollars to anyone who would kill her. The Soldiers of Islam accused her of blasphemy and conspiracy against Islam, while the Bengali government charged her with sacrilege merely for saying that the Koran should be revised. After months in hiding, Dr. Nasrin escaped to Sweden with the aid of American, French, and European Union authorities. Her commitment to eliminating religious extremism worldwide is stated in her preface to Shame: The disease of religious fundamentalism must be fought at every turn. I will continue to write and protest persecution and discrimination. I am convinced that the only way the fundamentalist forces can be stopped is if all of us join together to fight their malignant influence. I, for one, will not be silenced.This novel has had serious repercussions for its creator. When it was published in Bangladesh, Muslim leaders in that country placed Nasrin under a fatwa or 'holy judgment' similar to that brought against Salman Rushdie for the Satanic Verses. -Washington PostA seething indictment of oppression and religious fundamentalism . . . -Library Journal. . . fiercely felt political novel of Bangladesh (which was a black market bestseller in India) . . . revolves around a Hindu family and its struggles in the face of retaliatory Muslim fanaticism. -Publishers Weekly

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