What’s the context for this? Sorry I haven’t been following news from India that closely.
I’m really disappointed about how our government has treated you. Our history books are full of self-congratulatory claims that we as a nation have always been tolerant and are always willing to provide refuge blah blah blah and yet the government keeps harassing you.
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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Lofty
October 15, 2012 at 2:08 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Words are power, they want to take it away? No way! I like your style.
StevoR
October 15, 2012 at 6:50 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
No retreat no surrender, speaking up and speaking proud. You go Taslima, you rock!
And all the threats and the fear, show how little they can stand
That they tremble before your words.
You have them scared
Of truths and you.
pramod
October 15, 2012 at 10:19 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
What’s the context for this? Sorry I haven’t been following news from India that closely.
I’m really disappointed about how our government has treated you. Our history books are full of self-congratulatory claims that we as a nation have always been tolerant and are always willing to provide refuge blah blah blah and yet the government keeps harassing you.
mynameischeese
October 15, 2012 at 11:26 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Lovely!
jaytheostrich
October 16, 2012 at 1:51 am (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Mightier than a sword indeed, and you can fit it into a pocket.
tony goddard
October 20, 2012 at 12:54 pm (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
Typewriters became popular in the same age that invented the machine gun. We still live with that problem.