Taslima Nasrin, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion.

Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death.

Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death.

Taslima was invited to go to Mumbai to inaugurate her book in Mumbai, India. But the Islamic fundamentalists started campaign against her and declared that they would burn her alive if she arrives in Mumbai.

Sep 25, 2017 · 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.

Poetry. Shikore Bipul Khudha (Hunger in the Roots), 1982; Nirbashito Bahire Ontore (Banished Without and Within), 1989; Amar Kichu Jay Ashe Ne (I Couldn’t Care Less), 1990; Atole Ontorin (Captive in the Abyss), 1991; Balikar Gollachut (Game of the Girls), 1992; Behula Eka Bhashiyechilo Bhela (Behula Floated the Raft Alone), 1993; Ay Kosto Jhepe, Jibon Debo Mepe (Pain Come Roaring Down, I ...

Sep 25, 2017 · 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.

Taslima Nasrin, the fiery feminist from Bangladesh who angered the Muslim clergy in her country by questioning the Koran and writing about sexuality, has written a brutally honest and brave memoir of her childhood to the age of 14.

THE controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who had in the 1990s angered Islamic fundamentalists with what they considered was blasphemous writings, has caused a fresh furore, this time earning the wrath of progressive writers of both her native land and West Bengal, India, who had supported her freedom of expression.

The song, which calls for freedom of artistic expression, is about Taslima Nasrin, the exiled Bangladeshi writer whose award-winning book has been banned in Bangladesh and in Sri Lanka. Muslim fundamentalists in Bangladesh have issued a fatwa or death sentence against Nasrin.