Taslima Nasrin, also known as Taslima Nasreen, (born 25 August1962 in Mymensingh, Bangladesh) is a writer.
Taslima Nasrin stands up for equal rights for women and opposes oppression of non-Islamic minorities in Islamic societies, like in her home country Bangladesh.
Nasrin once again raised the ire of officials in her native Bangladesh with her new book Utal Hawa Pol (Wild Wind). The government has called for her arrest and banned the publication, sale, distribution and collection of the novel. The Home Ministry claims that it "contains anti-Islam sentiments and statements that could destroy the religious harmony of Bangladesh".
Books by Taslima Nasrin
Lajja, Shame
Meyebela: My Bengali Girlhood - A Memoir of Growing Up Female in a Muslim WorldISBN 1586420518
The Game in Reverse: Poems and Essays by Taslima Nasrin
Utal Hawa Pol
The Council for Secular Humanism has given Nasrin its consistent support. She often writes for the council's magazine Free Inquiry where she also serves as Senior Editor.
Taslima Nasrin is an Honorary Associate of Rationalist International.
External links
For freedom of expression - by Taslima Nasreen (http://www.unesco.org/webworld/points_of_views/nasreen_121199.shtml)
Bulletin # 102 (http://www.rationalistinternational.net/archive/en/rationalist_2002/102.htm#3) RATIONALIST INTERNATIONAL article
There is no question about the bravery of Taslima Nasreen--a government anesthesiologist and the daughter of a county physician father and a devoutly religious mother, who was suddenly thrust into the spotlight upon the angry response of Islamic militants to her feminist writings.
Nasreen's writings express her thoughts on religion, feminism, and sexuality clearly--issues that are not often expressed in the open in the traditional Muslim society of Bangladesh.
Talking to journalists on a visit to India, TaslimaNasreen said she was bored of living in the West for over a decade and would like to settle down permanently in Calcutta, the centre of India's Bengali community.
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