“lajja novel by taslima nasreen”

Lajja, the controversial novel by Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, is a savage indictment of religious extremism and man’s inhumanity to man. The Duttas—Sudhamoy, Kironmoyee, and their two children, Suranjan and Maya—have lived in Bangladesh all their lives. Despite being part of the countr... More

Love Poems Of Taslima Naseen is a selection ofTaslima's love poems from several books. She is internationally known as awomen's rights activist and a fighter against religious fundamentalism. But inthis book she speaks in a private voice - her love, longings, desire and despair. ... More

Translated by Taslima Nasreen herself, the poems in All About Women reflect the passion which makes her a feminist, a staunch fighter for women's rights and against religious fundamentalism and oppression against women. They speak for a broad and secular outlook. As she says in one of her poems, 'Fr... More

Uttal Hawa, 'Wild Wind' in translation, is the second volume of Taslima Nasreen's autobiography. It depicts Taslima's tumultuous youth, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four, a period during which she not only pursues a long and strenuous MBBS degree course, she also falls hopelessly in love.... More

Through her unsentimental and unadorned style, Taslima Nasreen shows vividly how women have always been treated as objects in apatriarchal society, how religious diktats continuously strive to chain herfurther and how every social and familial relationship is marred by male lustfor power and dominat... More

A woman’s search for love and independence in a strange city far away from home French Lover is the story of Nilanjana, a young Bengali woman from Kolkata who moves to Paris after her marriage to Kishanlal, a restaurant owner. Kishanlal’s luxurious apartment seems to Nilanjana to be a gilded ca... More

Dueling factions of an alien race, the Autobots and the Decepticons, descend upon Earth in search of the one thing that can keep their race alive--the Allspark. With the United States government involved, it takes a battle with both humans and machines to decide the fate of humankind--and robots--on... More