Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrin
Taslima Nasrinis a Bangladeshi author and former physician who has lived in exile since 1994. From a literary profile as a poet in the late 1980s, she rose to global attention by the end of the 20th century owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and severe criticism of Islam...
NationalityBangladeshi
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 August 1962
CountryBangladesh
writing europe culture
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
mother brother father
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
thinking keys two
I dont agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam... To me, the key conflict is between irrational blind faith and rational, logical minds.
believe came country demanded denied execution forced freedom human including leave pay reason religious rights sole thoughts
I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my freedom to have thoughts that are different from their own. As a punishment, they demanded my execution by hanging. I was forced to leave my own country. I had to pay heavily for the sole reason that I believe in human rights and freedom of expression.
home want return
All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
beautiful mosaics culture
There is no such thing as a 'superior' or 'inferior' culture, there are only various cultural patterns which make up this beautiful, multicolored mosaic.
book writing scared
I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
believe offended-you expression
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
believe islamic rights
I don't find any difference between Islam and Islamic fundamentalists. I believe religion is the root, and from the root fundamentalism grows as a poisonous stem. If we remove fundamentalism and keep religion, then one day or another fundamentalism will grow again. I need to say that because some liberals always defend Islam and blame fundamentalists for creating problems. But Islam itself oppresses women. Islam itself doesn't permit democracy and it violates human rights.
book writing firsts
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
home west east
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
home thinking government
Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
believe human religion women
I don't believe in God. The religion mongers segregate women from the human race, I too am divided, I too am defrauded of my human rights.
inspirational motivational atheist
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.