Taslima Nasrin

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Taslima Nasrin (also Taslima Nasreen, born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and human rights campaigner.

Despite being compelled exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death, she is well-known for her writing on women's oppression and religion.

Nasrin's books have been translated into 30 different languages.

In Bangladesh, several of her books have been outlawed.

(both from Bangladesh and India's West Bengal region) she has been blacklisted and banned from the Bengal area. Nasrin was born to Dr. Nasrin.

Rajab Ali and Edul Ara in Mymensingh.

Her father, a physician and a professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Mymensingh Medical College, was also a professor of Medical Jurisprudence, as well as Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka, and Dhaka Medical College.

Nasrin studied medicine and became a physician.

By the start of the 1990s, she had earned international notice for her essays and books with feminist viewpoints and critique of Islam's "misogynistic" faiths, including Islam.

After living more than a decade in Europe and the United States, she returned to India in 2004, but she was barred from the country in 2008, although she has been living in Kolkata, India, on a long-term, multiple-entry, or campaigning visa since 2004.

She is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.

She has been unable to return to Bangladesh or to her adopted home in West Bengal, India.

Life in exile

Nasrin spent the next ten years in exile in Sweden, Germany, France, and the United States after fleeing Bangladesh in 1994. She returned to the East and migrated to Kolkata, India, in 2004, where she lived until 2007. After being physically wounded by demonstrators in Hyderabad, she was compelled to remain under house arrest in Kolkata, and then, she was forced to leave West Bengal on November 22, 2007. She was then forced to live under house arrest in Delhi for three months. In 2008, she had no other option but to leave India. She was not allowed to live in India for a few years, but Nasrin, who wanted to live in India, eventually moved to India from the United States.

Nasrin, a Bangladeshi national poet who died in exile in Western Europe and North America for ten years. Her Bangladeshi passport had been withdrawn; she had been granted citizenship by the Swedish government and migrated to Germany. She allegedly had to wait for six years (1994–1999) to get a visa to visit India. Meyebela, My Bengali Girlhood, was her biographical account from birth to adolescence in 1998. When her mother and later her father were on their death beds, she never got a Bangladeshi passport to return to the country.

In 2004, she was granted a renewable temporary residence permit by India and moved to Kolkata, which has a common heritage and language with Bangladesh; in an interview in 2007, she said Kolkata is her home. The government of India granted her a visa to continue in the country on a regular basis, but it refused to give her Indian citizenship. Nasrin regularly contributed to Indian newspapers and journals, including Anandabazar Patrika and Desh, and, for a short time, wrote a weekly column in the Bengali translation of The Statesman.

Syed Noorur Barkati, the imam of Kolkata's Tipu Sultan Mosque, was again confronted with opposition from religious fundamentalists in June 2006, when the imam admitted to giving money to anyone who "blackened [that is, publicly insulted] Ms Nasreen's face." And in international affairs, she caused controversy: "America" was read aloud at a large Bengali audience at the North American Bengali Conference in 2005, but she was booed off stage. The "All India Muslim Personal Board (Jadeed) board in India had been offered 500,000 rupees for her beheading in March 2007. Tauqeer Raza Khan, the company's president, said the only way to recover the money was if Nasrin "apologises, burns her books, and leaves."

All India Majlis-e-Islamique muezjeen pled his contempt of Tasleema Nasreen in 2007, warning that the fatwa against her and Salman Rushdie were to be adhered to. While releasing Telugu translations of her work, she was attacked by party members led by three MLAs, including Mohammed Muqta Khan, Mohammed Moazzam Khan and Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri.

Nasrin was in Hyderabad on August 9th, 2007, when she was reportedly assaulted by a crowd led by representatives from the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen, an Indian political party, when she was reportedly attacked by a crowd. Muslim leaders in Kolkata revived an old fatwa against her on August 17th, urging her to leave the country and give an unlimited amount of money to anyone who would kill her. A demonstration against Nasrin took place on November 21 in Kolkata. The "All India Minority Forum" demonstrations sparked chaos in the city and forced the army to reorder orders. Nasrin was forced to move from Kolkata, her "adopted city," to Jaipur, and then to New Delhi the following day.

Nasrin was held in an undisclosed location in New Delhi, effectively under house arrest, for more than seven months. In January 2008, she was nominated for the Simone de Beauvoir Award for her essays on women's rights, but she declined to go to Paris to receive the award. "I don't want to leave India at this moment and would rather fight for my rights here," she said, but she had to be hospitalized for three days due to numerous reports. The house arrest took on international significance in a letter sent by Amnesty International, India's former foreign minister, Muchkund Dubey, urging the Indian government to pressure Nasrin to return to Kolkata quickly.

Nasrin, a New Delhi resident, said, "I'm writing a lot, but not about Islam." This is about politics. "I have been put under intense pressure to leave [West] Bengal by the police in the last three months." Nasrin talked to Nasrin in an email interview with the undisclosed safehouse about the anxiety created by "this unendurable loneliness, this uncertainty, and this deathly silence." She cancelled the release of her sixth book Nei Kichu Nei ("No Entity") in favor of her autobiography, Nei Kichu Nei ("No Entity"), and—under pressure—deleted excerpts from Dwikhandito, the controversial book that caused the riots in Kolkata. On March 19, 2008, she was forced to leave India.

Nasrin moved to Sweden in 2008 and later served as a research scholar at New York University. "Her soul lived in India," she said, and so did the nation by granting it for posthumous medical use to Gana Darpan, a Kolkata-based NGO in 2005. She eventually returned to India, but she was forced to stay in New Delhi because the West Bengal government refused to allow her admission. Nasreen's visa was granted a one-year extension in 2016, and she is now seeking permanent residence in India, but no decision has been made by the Home Ministry on her.

Nasrin was said to have been killed by Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in 2015, and the Center for Inquiry supported her in getting to the United States, where she now lives. In June 2015, the Center for Inquiry (CFI) that helped evacuate her to the United States told her that her health "is only temporary if she does not remain in the United States," although CFI also established an emergency fund to assist with food, housing, and the way for her to be safely settled."

Nasrin's life and works in adaptation

Both in the east and west, Nasrin's life is the subject of several plays and songs. "Goddess in you, Taslima," the Swedish singer Magoria sang, and the French band Zebda performed "Don't be concerned, Taslima" as an homage.

Her work has been adapted for television and even turned into music. Jhumur, a 2006 television serial based on a tale that was specially created for the program, was based on a story told especially for the show. Fakir Alamgir, Samina Nabi, Rakhi Sen performed her songs. Steve Lacy, the jazz soprano, met Nasrin in 1996 and collaborated with her on a tribute to music. The result, a "controversial" and "compelling" work titled The Cry, was created in Europe and North America. Nasrin was supposed to recite during the performance, but these recitations were interrupted after the 1996 Berlin world premiere due to security concerns.

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Early life and career

Nasrin was born in Mymensingh to Dr. Rajab Ali and Edul Ara, becoming part of a Bengali Muslim family. Her father was a surgeon and a professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Mymensingh Medical College, as well as at Sir Salimullah Medical College in Dhaka and Dhaka Medical College. She began in high school in 1976 (SSC) and then advanced secondary studies in college (HSC) in 1978, then a part of the University of Dhaka, and graduated in 1984 with a MBBS degree. Shenjuti, a literary journal, was written and edited in college. She worked at a family planning clinic in Mymensingh, then worked at Mitford hospital's gynaecology department and the anaesthesia department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. As she studied and practiced medicine, she saw girls who had been raped, and she had heard women cry in agony in the delivery room if their baby was a girl. She was born into a Muslim family, but she became an atheist over time. She took a feminist route in writing.

Nasrin began writing poetry early in her literary career and published half a dozen collections of poetry between 1982 and 1993, many with female oppression as a theme and often with gruesome words. She began publishing prose in the late 1980s and released three collections of essays and four books before releasing her documentary book Lajja (Bengali: romanized: Lôjja, lit. (Shame): In which a Hindu family was being targeted by Muslim fanatics, Muslims attacked a Hindu family and decided to leave the country. Nasrin was the victim of a string of physical and verbal assaults over her critical analysis of Islam and her call for women's equality. Many of her demonstrators took to the streets to demand that she be executed by hanging. The Council of Islamic Soldiers, a radical fundamentalist group, gave her a reward for her death in October 1993. She was interviewed by The Statesman in Kolkata, which quoted her as calling for a revision of the Quran; she claims she was only calling for the abolition of the Sharia, the Islamic religious law. She was arrested on "charges of making ininflammatory remarks" in August 1994 and was chastised by Islamic fundamentalists. A few hundred thousand protesters deblasted Islam as "an apostate commissioned by imperial powers to vilify Islam"; a leader of a "military group" threatens to unleash thousands of poisonous snakes in the capital unless she is executed." She escaped to Sweden at the end of 1994, ending her medical practice and becoming a full-time writer and activist after two months in hiding.

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