Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, under protection in India, has agreed to remove from her book some lines considered anti-Islam by some Muslim groups. Top News // 1 decade ago.

(RNS) Taslima Nasrin, a Bangladeshi gynecologist, novelist and poet, made the move after death threats from al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent, which claimed credit for the killing of another ...

My Bengali Girlhood: A Memoir of Growing Up Female in a Muslim World By Taslima Nasrin Translated from the Bengali by Gopa Majumdar Steerforth. 308 pp. $26 Taslima Nasrin, the fiery feminist from ...

PHILADELPHIA, April 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Collective Publishers announced today it will publish international human rights activist and writer Taslima Nasrin. In this powerful selection ...

So begins Taslima Nasrin’s memoir of her childhood. It is 1971 and Bangladesh is fighting for its independence from Pakistan. Nine-year-old Taslima is bundled into a carriage with her mother ...

Taslima Nasrin was first exiled in 1994 by the government of Khaleda Zia and again in 1999 under Hasina’s leadership. Her passport was never renewed, her books were banned, and charges of ...

Disturbed by New Threats: Taslima Nasrin. NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Even as images of author Salman Rushdie being stabbed multiple times on stage in New York by Hadi Matar, suspected of being ...

Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin said she doesn't find relocating to Kolkata from Delhi a feasible option at this point, adding that "I don't want to get kicked around anymore".

On August 9th, the firebrand Bangladeshi author-in-exile Taslima Nasrin was attacked by a group of MIM (Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen) activists during a function held at the Press Club in Hyderabad, ...