Nando’s always has the best ads. I’ve heard they were looking into opening up locations in the US. I sure wish they would. All reports are that it’s some of the best fast food chicken there is.
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. In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasreen’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.
Taslima Nasreen was born in Bangladesh. She started writing when she was 13. Her writings won the hearts of people across the border and she landed with the prestigious literary award Ananda from India in 1992. Taslima won The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1994. She received the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Award and Human Rights Award from Government of France, Le Prix de l' Edit de Nantes from the city of Nantes, France. She is a Humanist Laureate in The International Academy for Humanism,USA. She won Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award, Germany,and Feminist Press Award, USA . She got the UNESCO prize for Promotion of the Tolerance and Non-violence in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of Lyon. She got honorary citizenship from Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Metz, Thionville, Esch etc. Taslima was awarded the Condorcet-Aron Prize at the “Parliament of the French Community of Belgium” in Brussels and Ananda literary award again in 2000.
Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.
Taslima has written 35 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages.Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.
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Jack
July 22, 2012 at 7:33 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
OK that’s funny.
shouldbeworking
July 22, 2012 at 7:44 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Tasty, I mean tasteful.
Francisco Bacopa
July 23, 2012 at 4:12 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Nando’s always has the best ads. I’ve heard they were looking into opening up locations in the US. I sure wish they would. All reports are that it’s some of the best fast food chicken there is.
Gregory
July 23, 2012 at 10:00 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
What? Better than Bigot-Fil-A (oops I mean Chic-Fil-A)?
Enkidu
July 23, 2012 at 10:15 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Over-priced, overated, under-cooked.
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
July 24, 2012 at 4:16 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Mmm Nandos… Trips to the UK always involve eating excessive Nandos for me.
F
July 23, 2012 at 4:29 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Ha!
Crudely Wrott
July 24, 2012 at 10:39 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Would have been better if it had shown the sun setting and the dude chowing down.
After all, what value has a fast if not for the later eating?
StevoR
July 28, 2012 at 3:51 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Technically, as soon as the Sun appears in contact with the horizon its already below it due to atmospheric refraction! So he could eat then.
In case that helps ..