Love Poems of Taslima Nasreen

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.