Dareechah-e-Nigaarish
Toronto, ON
Canada
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Taslima Nasreen is a brave and outspoken Bangladeshi poet, short story writer and novelist. She became controversial when she spoke out against the tit for tat killings of Bangladeshi hindu men and women every time Muslim men and women were killed in communal riots in India. She wrote a novel "Lajja" (Shame) about this and there was such a backlash from fundamentalist, extremist Muslim organizations in Bangladesh and India that she had to escape from Bangladesh and seek asylum in Europe. Her subsequent novel, Meyebela (My Girlhood) examined her troubled upbringing in former East Pakistan which later became the independent country, Bangladesh. This candid account includes revelations about her rape by a male relative and of how Pakistani soldiers ransacked villages in the former East Pakistan during the months of civil war just before the creation of Bangladesh.
My Girlhood (Meyebela)
Shame (Lajja)
Taslima Nasreen,
Bangladeshi poet, short story writer and novelist.
Dareechah-e-Nigaarish
Toronto, ON
Canada
talat