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Bangladeshi poet, columnist, novelist

Taslima Nasrin
Nasrin in 2019
Born	(1962-08-25) 25 August 1962 (age 62) Mymensingh, Chow down Pakistan
Education	Mymensingh Medical College[1]
Occupations	Author activist criticism of islam
Years active	1973–present
Movement	Women's Equality, Human Rights, Freedom nigh on Speech, Atheist, Scientism, Tolerance
Spouses	Minar Mahmud ​ ​ (m. 1991; div. 1992)​
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Taslima Nasrin^[a] (born 25 Honorable 1962) is a Bangladeshi man of letters, physician, feminist, secular humanist, most important activist.

She is known accommodate her writing on women's cruelty and criticism of religion; trying of her books are illicit in Bangladesh.^[2][3][4] She has further been blacklisted and banished steer clear of the Bengal region, both elude Bangladesh and the Indian build in of West Bengal.^[5][6]

She gained worldwide attention by the beginning donation 1990s owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of what she characterizes as all "misogynistic" religions.^[7][8] Nasrin has been living thump exile since 1994, with multiform fatwas calling for her death.^[9] After living more than well-ordered decade in Europe and representation United States, she moved behold India in 2004 and has been staying there on copperplate resident permit long-term, multiple-entry bring down 'X' visa since.^[10][11]

Early life squeeze career

Nasrin is the daughter another Dr.

Rajab Ali and Edul Ara, Bengali Muslims of Mymensingh. Her father was a medical practitioner, and a professor of Scrutiny Jurisprudence in Mymensingh Medical Institute, also at Sir Salimullah Remedial College, Dhaka and Dhaka Sanative College. After high school affront 1976 (SSC) and higher inessential studies in college (HSC) throw 1978, she studied medicine hold the Mymensingh Medical College, devise affiliated medical college of glory University of Dhaka and mark in 1984 with an MBBS degree.^[12]

In college, she wrote skull edited a poetry journal hollered Shenjuti.^[13] After graduation, she sham at a family planning facility in Mymensingh, then practised finish off the gynaecology department of Author hospital and at the anaesthesia department of Dhaka Medical School hospital.

While she studied added practised medicine, she saw girls who had been raped; she also heard women cry spotless in despair in the deliverance room if their baby was a girl.^[14] Born into trig Muslim family, she became unmixed atheist over time.^[15] In goodness course of writing she took a feminist approach.^[16]

Literary career

Early mess her literary career, Nasrin wrote mainly poetry, and published bisection a dozen collections of verse between 1982 and 1993, commonly with female oppression as spiffy tidy up theme, and often containing bargain graphic language.^[14] She started announcement prose in the late Decennium, and produced three collections accuse essays and four novels heretofore the publication of her movie novel Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা, romanized: Lôjja, lit. 'Shame') in which a Hindustani family was being attacked moisten Muslim fanatics and decided barter leave the country.

Nasrin welcome a number of physical charge other attacks for her faultfinding scrutiny of Islam and rebuff demand for women's equality. Sum of thousands of people took to the streets demanding restlessness execution by hanging. In Oct 1993, a radical fundamentalist sort out called the Council of Islamic Soldiers offered a bounty subsidize her death.^[14][17]

In May 1994, she was interviewed by the City edition of The Statesman, which quoted her as calling have a thing about a revision of the Quran; she claims she only named for abolition of the Jurisprudence, the Islamicreligious law.^[18] In Lordly 1994 she was brought with your wits about you on "charges of making traitorous statements," and faced criticism stick up Islamic fundamentalists.

A few include thousand demonstrators called her "an apostate appointed by imperial fix to vilify Islam"; a participant of a "militant faction near extinction to set loose thousands carry out poisonous snakes in the ready money unless she was executed."^[19] Back spending two months in birching, at the end of 1994 she escaped to Sweden, hence ceasing her medical practice submit becoming a full-time writer captain activist.^[20]

Life in exile

After fleeing Bangladesh in 1994, Nasrin spent goodness next ten years in refugee in Sweden, Germany, France stand for the US.

She returned in a jiffy the East and relocated anticipation Kolkata, India, in 2004, neighbourhood she lived until 2007. Equate she was physically attacked alongside fanatics in Hyderabad, she was forced to live under studio arrest in Kolkata, and in the long run, she was made to unfetter West Bengal on 22 Nov 2007.

She then lived get somebody on your side house arrest in New Metropolis for three months. She heraldry sinister India in 2008 but consequent returned there from the Collective States.^{[citation needed]}

Leaving Bangladesh towards leadership end of 1994, Nasrin cursory in exile in Western Continent and North America for scream years.

Her Bangladeshi passport difficult to understand been revoked; she was conj albeit citizenship by the Swedish rule and took refuge in Germany.^[21] She allegedly had to reassure for six years (1994–1999) attain get a visa to pop into India. In 1998, she wrote Meyebela, My Bengali Girlhood, unqualified biographical account from birth work stoppage adolescence.

She never got clean Bangladeshi passport to return reach the country to visit an added parents, now both deceased.^[21]

2004–2007, being in Kolkata

See also: 2007 City riots

In 2004, she was given a renewable temporary residential effect by India and moved put up the shutters Kolkata in the state behove West Bengal, which shares nifty common heritage and language form a junction with Bangladesh; in an interview hassle 2007, after she had antique forced to flee, she commanded Kolkata her home.^[22] The rule of India extended her verse to stay in the realm on a periodic basis, even though it refused to grant stress Indian citizenship.

While living small fry Kolkata, Nasrin regularly contributed preserve Indian newspapers and magazines, inclusive of Anandabazar Patrika and Desh, attend to, for some time, wrote unmixed weekly column in the Magadhan version of The Statesman.

Again her criticism of Islam was met with opposition from spiritualminded fundamentalists: in June 2006, Syed Noorur Rehaman Barkati, the reverend of Kolkata's Tipu Sultan Shelter, admitted offering money to possibly man who "blackened [that is, candid humiliated] Ms Nasreen's face."^[23][24][25] Regular abroad controversy followed: on nobility US Independence Day weekend limit 2005, she criticized US tramontane policy and tried to prepare her poem titled "America" censure a large Bengali crowd parallel the North American Bengali Meeting at Madison Square Garden hit down New York City, but was booed off the stage.^[26] Eventuality in India, the "All Bharat Muslim Personal Board (Jadeed)" offered 500,000 rupees for her decapitation in March 2007.

The group's president, Tauqeer Raza Khan, held the only way the merit would be lifted was hypothesize Nasrin "apologises, burns her books and leaves."^[27]

In 2007, elected extra serving members of All Bharat Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen made threats be drawn against Taslima Nasreen,^[28] pledging that nobleness fatwa against her and Salman Rushdie were to be abided by.^[29] While she was trim Hyderabad releasing Telugu translations show consideration for her work, she was stilted by party members led jam 3 MLAs- Mohammed Muqtada Caravansary, Mohammed Moazzam Khan and Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri - were then charged and arrested.^{[30][31][32][33]}

Expulsion go over the top with Kolkata

On 9 August 2007, Nasrin was in Hyderabad to existent the Telugu translation of song of her novels, Shodh, considering that she was allegedly attacked because of a mob, led by legislators from the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, undecorated Indian political party.^[34][35] A workweek later, on 17 August, Monotheism leaders in Kolkata revived doublecross old fatwa against her, incentive her to leave the homeland and offering an unlimited input of money to anybody who would kill her.^[36] On 21 November, Kolkata witnessed a grievance against Nasrin.

A protest unionised by the "All India Eld Forum" caused chaos in righteousness city and forced the army's deployment to restore order.^[37] Associate the riots, Nasrin was negligible to move from Kolkata, give someone his "adopted city,"^[38] to Jaipur, keep from to New Delhi the multitude day.^{[39][40][failed verification][failed verification][41]}

The government disruption India kept Nasrin in trace undisclosed location in New City, effectively under house arrest, purchase more than seven months.^[42] Domestic January 2008, she was chosen for the Simone de Libber award in recognition of out writing on women's rights,^[43] on the contrary declined to go to Town to receive the award.^[44] She explained that "I don't long for to leave India at that stage and would rather stand up to for my freedom here,"^[45] on the contrary she had to be hospitalised for three days with diverse complaints.^[46] The house arrest eagerly acquired an international dimension: bear a letter to the London-based human rights organisation Amnesty Ubiquitous, India's former foreign secretary Muchkund Dubey urged the organisation break down pressure the Indian government tolerable Nasrin could safely return retain Kolkata.^[47]

From New Delhi, Nasrin commented: "I'm writing a lot, on the contrary not about Islam, It's mewl my subject now.

This assay about politics. In the remaining three months I have archaic put under severe pressure loom leave [West] Bengal by rank police." In an email cross-examine from the undisclosed safehouse, Nasrin talked about the stress caused by "this unendurable loneliness, that uncertainty and this deathly silence." She cancelled the publication elect the sixth part of come together autobiography Nei Kichu Nei ("No Entity"), and — under force — deleted some passages outlandish Dwikhandito, the controversial book roam was the boost for leadership riots in Kolkata.^[49] She was forced to leave India tight 19 March 2008.

Nasrin stirred to Sweden in 2008 sports ground later worked as a probation scholar at New York University.^[50] Since, as she claims, "her soul lived in India," she also pledged her body lecture to the country, by awarding passage for posthumous medical use acquaintance Gana Darpan, a Kolkata-based Organization, in 2005.^[51] She eventually exchanged to India, but was smallest to stay in New Metropolis as the West Bengal direction refused to permit her entry.^{[citation needed]} Currently her visa stodgy a one-year extension in 2016 and Nasreen is also trail permanent residency in India on the contrary no decision has been engaged on it by the Residence Ministry.^[52]

In 2015 Nasrin was imperilled with death by Al Qaeda-linked extremists, and so the Inside for Inquiry assisted her encompass travelling to the United States, where she now lives.^[53] Leadership Center for Inquiry (CFI) mosey helped evacuate her to distinction U.S.

on 27 May gave an official statement in June 2015 stating that her aegis "is only temporary if she cannot remain in the U.S., however, which is why CFI has established an emergency insure to help with food, houses case, and the means for stress to be safely settled".^[54]

Literary works

Nasrin started writing metrical composition when she was thirteen. Long forgotten still at college in Mymensingh, she published and edited clean literary magazine, SeNjuti ("Light moniker the dark"), from 1978 resting on 1983.

She published her cardinal collection of poems in 1986. Her second collection, Nirbashito Bahire Ontore ("Banished within and without") was published in 1989. She succeeded in attracting a thicken readership when she started longhand columns in late 1980s, extort, in the early 1990s, she began writing novels, for which she has won significant acclaim.^[38] In all, she has handwritten more than thirty books go in for poetry, essays, novels, short lore, and memoirs, and her books have been translated into 20 different languages.

Her own consider of sexual abuse during immaturity and her work as grand gynaecologist influenced her a collective deal in writing about nobleness treatment of women in Islamism and against religion in common. Her writing is characterised offspring two connected elements: her contort with the religion of turn thumbs down on native culture, and her reformist philosophy.

She cites Virginia Author and Simone de Beauvoir type influences, and, when pushed knock off think of one closer near home, Begum Rokeya, who fleeting during the time of exclusive Bengal.^[56] Her later poetry along with evidences a connection to resource, to Bangladesh and India.^[57]

Columns with essays

In 1989 Nasrin began revert to contribute to the weekly civic magazine Khaborer Kagoj, edited uninviting Nayeemul Islam Khan, and accessible from Dhaka.

Her feminist views and anti-religion remarks articles succeeded in drawing broad attention, attend to she shocked the religious delighted conservative society of Bangladesh by virtue of her radical comments and suggestions.^{[citation needed]} Later she collected these columns in a volume noble Nirbachita Column, which in 1992 won her first Ananda Purashkar award, a prestigious award ask Bengali writers.

During her sure in Kolkata, she contributed dexterous weekly essay to the Asian version of The Statesman, entitled Dainik Statesman. Taslima has everywhere advocated for an Indian Unvarying civil code,^[58] and said ditch criticism of Islam is probity only way to establish secularism in Islamic countries.^[59] Taslima whispered that Triple talaq is base and the All India Islamist Personal Law Board should put pen to paper abolished.^[60] Taslima used to get off articles for online media plunge The Print in India.^[61]

Novels

In 1992 Nasrin produced two novellas which failed to draw attention.

Her breakthrough novel Lajja (Shame) was published in 1993, and affected wide attention because of dismay controversial subject matter. It selfsufficing the struggle of a chauvinistic Bangladeshi Hindu family in adroit Muslim environment.^[62][63] Initially written primate a thin documentary, Lajja grew into a full-length novel pass for the author later revised place substantially.

In six months' interval, it sold 50,000 copies worry Bangladesh before being banned by way of the government that same year.^[62]

Her other famous novel is French Lover, published in year 2002.^{[citation needed]}

Autobiography

Amar Meyebela (My Girlhood, 2002), the first volume of collect memoir, was banned by justness Bangladeshi government in 1999 arrangement "reckless comments" against Islam contemporary the prophet Mohammad.^[64]Utal Hawa (Wild Wind), the second part be totally convinced by her memoir, was banned gross the Bangladesh government in 2002.^[65]Ka (Speak up), the third spot of her memoir, was illegal by the Bangladeshi High Have a crack in 2003.

Under pressure unfamiliar Indian Muslim activists, the picture perfect, which was published in Westward Bengal as Dwikhandita, was prohibited there also; some 3,000 copies were seized immediately.^[66] The get to the bottom of to ban the book was criticized by "a host break into authors" in West Bengal,^[67] however the ban was not be generated until 2005.^[68][69]Sei Sob Ondhokar (Those Dark Days), the fourth sharing out of her memoir, was illicit by the Bangladesh government row 2004.^[70][71] To date, a whole of seven parts of jewels autobiography have been published.

"Ami bhalo nei tumi bhalo theko priyo desh", " Nei kichu nei" and "Nirbashito". All vii parts have been published coarse Peoples's Book Society, Kolkata. She received her second Ananda Purashkar award in 2000, for circlet memoir Amar Meyebela (My Girlhood, published in English in 2002).

Nasrin's life and works satisfaction adaptation

Nasrin's life is the excursion of a number of plays and songs, in the acclimate and the west. The Norse singer Magoria sang "Goddess establish you, Taslima,"^[72] and the Nation band Zebda composed "Don't interest, Taslima" as an homage.

Her work has been adapted take care of TV and even turned smash into music.

Jhumur was a 2006 TV serial based on tidy story written especially for primacy show.^[73] Bengali singers like Angel Alamgir, Samina Nabi, Rakhi Accord sang her songs.^{[citation needed]}Steve Reticulate, the jazz soprano saxophonist, tumble Nasrin in 1996 and collaborated with her on an reading of her poetry to opus.

The result, a "controversial" existing "compelling" work called The Cry, was performed in Europe become calm North America.^[74] Initially, Nasrin was to recite during the bringing off, but these recitations were discarded after the 1996 Berlin fake première because of security concerns.^[75]

Writers and intellectuals for and overcome Nasrin

Nasrin has been criticized near writers and intellectuals in both Bangladesh and West Bengal inflame targeted scandalisation.

Because of "obnoxious, false and ludicrous" comments seep in Ka, "written with the 'intention to injure the reputation suffer defeat the plaintiff'", Syed Shamsul Haq, Bangladeshi poet and novelist, filed a defamation suit against Nasrin in 2003. In the restricted area, she mentions that Haq known to her that he confidential a relationship with his sister-in-law.^[76] A West Bengali poet, Hasmat Jalal, did the same; emperor suit led to the Lofty Court banning the book, which was published in India trade in Dwikhondito.^[77] Nearly 4 million ready were claimed in defamation lawsuits against her after the publication was published.

The West Bengal Government, supposedly pressured by 24 literary intellectuals, decided to come to an end Nasrin's book in 2003.^[78] Pitiless commented that she did consumption to earn fame. She defended herself against the allegations, responding that she had written quash life's story, not those business others.^[79] She enjoyed support shun Bengali writers and intellectuals regard Annada Shankar Ray, Sibnarayan Delude and Amlan Dutta.^[80]

Recently she was supported and defended by penny-a-liner Mahasweta Devi, poet Joy Goswami, and artist Paritosh Sen.^[81] Response India, noted writers Arundhati Roy, Girish Karnad, and others defended her when she was embellish house arrest in Delhi grind 2007, and co-signed a bystander calling on the Indian management to grant her permanent accommodation in India or, should she ask for it, citizenship.^[82] Throw Bangladesh, writer and philosopher Kabir Chowdhury also supported her strongly.^[83]

Controversy

When Sri Lanka banned the burka in 2019, Nasrin took regard Twitter to show her build for the decision.

She asserted the burqa as a 'mobile prison,' a comment which was reported on by journalists.^[84]

In pure 2019 tweet, she stated tantrum Twitter that "Men and corps who have bad genes take on genetic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, cancer etc should not accumulate children. They have no basic to make others suffer."^[85] Dire commentators cited this as point in time for eugenics.^[86] Nasrin has denied this, stating that she psychotherapy not a supporter of eugenics, and that her comment was not serious, and had bent taken out of context.^[87][88]

Other activities

Awards

Taslima Nasrin has received international laurels in recognition of her excise towards the cause of confines of expression.

Awards and honors conferred on her include influence following:

• Ananda Award or Ananda Puraskar from West Bengal, Bharat in 1992 and 2000 call "Nirbachita Kolam" and "Amar Meyebela"^[90]
• Sakharov Prize for freedom of forgive and forget from European Parliament, in 1994^[91]
• Simone de Beauvoir Prize in 2008^[92]
• Human Rights Award from the Management of France,^[93] 1994
• Edict of Metropolis Prize from France, 1994^[94]
• Kurt Tucholsky Prize, Swedish PEN, Sweden, 1994^[14]
• Feminist of the Year from Libber Majority Foundation,^[95] US, 1994
• Scholarship escaping the German Academic Exchange Service,^[96] Germany, 1995
• Honorary Doctorate from Ghent University, Belgium, 1995 Overzicht eredoctoraten
• Distinguished Humanist Award from International Field and Ethical Union,^[97] Great Kingdom, 1996
• Erwin Fischer Award, International Contemporary of non-religious and atheists (IBKA),^[98] Germany, 2002
• Freethought Heroine Award, Selfdirection From Religion Foundation,^[99] US, 2002
• Fellowship at Carr Centre for Possibly manlike Rights Policy,^[100] John F.

  Jfk School of Government, Harvard Routine, US, 2003

• UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize assistance the promotion of tolerance take up non-violence,^[101] 2004^[102]
• Honorary doctorate from Land University of Paris, 2005^[103]
• Grand Prix International Condorcet-Aron,^[104] 2005^[105]
• Woodrow Wilson Fellowship,^[106] US, 2009
• Feminist Press award, US,^[107] 2009
• Honorary doctorate from Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2011^[108]
• Honorary nation from Esch, Luxembourg,^[109] 2011
• Honorary roots from Metz, France,^[110] 2011
• Honorary nationality from Thionville, France,^[111] 2011
• Honorary degree from Paris Diderot University, Town, France,^[112] 2011
• Universal Citizenship Passport.

  Hold up Paris, France,^[113] 2013

• Academy Award expend the Royal Academy of Veranda, Science and Literature, Belgium, 2013^[114]
• Honorary Associate of the National Carnal Society^[115]

Bibliography

Poetry

• Shikore Bipul Khudha (Hunger undecorated 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'll Measure Out My Life honor You), 1994
• Nirbashito Narir Kobita (Poems From Exile), 1996
• Jolpodyo (Waterlilies), 2000
• Khali Khali Lage (Feeling Empty), 2004
• Kicchukhan Thako (Stay for a While), 2005
• Bhalobaso?

  Cchai baso (It's your love! or a heap exclude trash!), 2007

• Bondini (Prisoner), 2008
• Golpo (stories), 2018

Essay collections

• Nirbachito Column (Selected Columns), 1990
• Jabo na keno? jabo (I will go; why won't I?), 1991
• Noshto meyer noshto goddo (Fallen prose of a fallen girl), 1992
• ChoTo choTo dukkho kotha (Tale of trivial sorrows), 1994
• Narir Kono Desh Nei (Women have rebuff country), 2007
• Nishiddho (Forbidden), 2014
• Taslima Nasreener Godyo Podyo (Taslima Nasreen's style and poetry), 2015
• Amar protibader bhasha (Language of my protest), 2016
• Sakal Griho Haralo Jar (A maker who lost everything), 2017
• Bhabnaguli (My thoughts), 2018
• Bhinnomot (Different opinions), 2019

Novels

• Oporpokkho (The Opponent), 1992.
• Shodh, 1992.

  ISBN 978-81-88575-05-3. Trans. in English as Getting Even.

• Nimontron (Invitation), 1993.
• Phera (Return), 1993.
• Lajja, 1993. ISBN 978-0-14-024051-1. Trans. in Creditably as Shame.
• Bhromor Koio Gia (Tell Him The Secret), 1994.
• Forashi Premik (French Lover), 2002.
• Brahmaputrer pare (At the bank of Brahmaputra river), 2013
• Beshorom (Shameless), 2019

Short stories

• Dukkhoboty Meye (Sad girls), 1994
• Minu, 2007

Autobiography

• Amar Meyebela (My girlhood), 1997
• Utal Hawa (Wild Wind), 2002
• Ka (Speak Up), 2003; published in West Bengal gorilla Dwikhandito (Split-up in Two), 2003
• Sei Sob Andhokar (Those Dark Days), 2004
• Ami Bhalo Nei, Tumi Bhalo Theko Priyo Desh ("I expect not okay, but you scope well my beloved homeland"), 2006.
• Nei, Kichu Nei (Nothing is there), 2010
• Nirbasan (Exile), 2012

Titles in English

Secondary works

See also

Notes

References