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, Academy prize from the Royal Academy of arts, science and literature from Belgium. 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 Madanjeet Singh 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 40 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.

His blood! » « Free thinker humanist Avijit Roy was killed by Islamic terrorists today.

Bangladeshi Islamists have been killing atheist and humanist bloggers and writers.

Dr. Avijit Roy was hacked to death last night by Islamic terrorists. He was lying on the sidewalk in a pool of blood having been viciously attacked, while his wife was asking passers-by for help.

Avijit’s crime was that he wrote some books on science, reason, atheism, evolution, humanism and homosexuality. He also provided hundreds of freethinkers a platform to freely express their views.

Some of his very valuable books:

His blood! » « Free thinker humanist Avijit Roy was killed by Islamic terrorists today.

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Debkumar Som says

February 27, 2015 at 4:29 pm

Long live comrade Aavijit Roy.

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dibakar chakraborty says

February 28, 2015 at 10:37 pm

What a dreadful waste of life. What a dreadful end to the celebrations of living. Or is it the beginning of a much much deeper existence? One transcends into many and the end finds a new beginning. And the part creates the whole, and the end escapes in eternity. Nothing ends for ever. The notion of end is an illusion. Avijit is there in our midst, everywhere. He’ll be there for all of us forever. OR ELSE THERE WILL BE END OF EVERYTHING. Bloody end will swallow all of us, you, jamatis, islam, hindus, harlots, pimps, professors, poets, atheists, priests, mullahs, all all all will come to an end. AND ONLY END WILL PREVAIL. Allow this to happen. Bloody fools.

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Monaz Haque says

February 28, 2015 at 10:44 pm

Scepticism teaches us that it is impossible to know anything with absolute certainty. The German philosopher argued that objective knowledge did not actually exist, and his scepticism influenced in turn that of French Existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre. Avijit Roy was a great follower of Sartre.

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charlicoat says

March 1, 2015 at 8:24 am

Avijit Roy dedicated his life to learning and reason. He was hated by the god-brokers and ignorant of this world. They feared his challenges to their fundamentalist house of cards. So they killed him. They know how to kill….too bad they don’t know how to live. Avijit’s work, along with the work of other brave lights, such as the writings of Taslima Nasrin, will change this world of ignorance and pain into one where humans will explore the world in freedom. The fundamentalist cowards are shaking in their boots. Their days are numbered…..and they know it..

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Phatu Tudu says

March 2, 2015 at 12:10 pm

What the hell is going on. Christopher Hitchens was right religion poisons everything

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Siddhartha says

March 7, 2015 at 6:44 pm

It’s the most cowardly act by the militant fundamentalist .the killers should know atheism is growing fast and we are the second highest in number after Christianity .

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Ignatius says

March 18, 2015 at 9:28 am

The whole world is fighting extremism.

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