Exile - A Memoir (English, Hardcover, Nasrin Taslima Taslima Nasrin)
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- Language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
- ISBN: 9780670088744, 0670088749
- Pages: 256
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On 21 November 2007, the city of Kolkata came to a rude, screeching halt as a virulent mob of religious fanatics took to the streets. Armed with a fatwa from their ideologues, the mob demanded that Taslima Nasrin leave the city immediately. While the police stood watching, mere dum witnesses to such hooliganism, a morally, intellectually and politically bankrupt Left Front government, tottering under the strain of their thirty year old backward looking rule, decided to ban her book and drive her out of the city she has always considered her second home.
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Banished from Bengal, Wronged by a State
The book is a powerful account of an individual, a writer, a female, who has been let down by the powers that be. The book is a commentary on how vote bank politics trumps basic human rights. The book is a testimony to the humongous and nearly unlimited State power. The book is a note of how personal relations, friendships, acquaintances fail to stand up in times of adversity. Taslima Nasrin’s Exile is a book that through its diary entries, poems, newspaper testimonials makes all the above po...
READ MORESambit Dash
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Good read - but have my own agreements and disagreements
Taslima's 'Exile' is her experience during the time of her house arrests in Kolkata and Delhi. How her freedom was snatched away from her and how she lived a life of psychological torture. Many of us might think that if I have a TV, the Internet, and house stocked with food, that is good enough and there is nothing missing. But, only a person who lives a live with all these, but within four walls will know the real difficulty. It is always interesting to read one's memoir. Taslima's is no exc...
READ MORESankaranarayanan Venkatasubramanian
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Nice product
Thus, I started my journey with Taslima Nasrin’s memoir. A journey that I have had earlier through the books she had written, through the conversations with my mother, friends, family, and newspapers. Through the time when Maa used to read out passages from her books to me in Bengali. A journey that being a Bengali and living a safe life in Kolkata, I could only know through what people told me. As I was a few pages down the book, I fell for the way she writes. Simple, out spoken, up front wi...
READ MORESharanya Bhattacharya
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Exile was a surreal experience.It is a memoir about a phase in Taslima Nasreen’s life when her right to freedom of speech was taken away from her and political games were employed in the controversy which led her to be banned in Bangladesh and West Bengal .This book is high on emotion and a woman’ s struggles in a man’s world. We live a life in much comfort but what happens when you are forced to live in four walls for years under house arrest.Such is tbe story of Taslima’s life and shows wha...
READ MORETrisa Modi
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To know the value of freedom..
Since this is my first book from author Taslima Nasrin, I had to first read a lot about what happened in her life to understand her perspective. Once the initial preparation was complete, I had found myself in love with her writing style. It mixes the objects that can be seen with the emotions that cannot be seen.
Writing about one’s own life requires a lot of courage to speak of the things that are in the personal dungeon within the mind. However, Taslima has spoken with the words that stay...
READ MOREWriting about one’s own life requires a lot of courage to speak of the things that are in the personal dungeon within the mind. However, Taslima has spoken with the words that stay...
VIBHA HEGDE
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An as it is account
Quite often literature falls into the niceties that has to be met with for some people but in here the author recounts her life as it is. She believes that she cannot be held to as a hostage for being nice and covering truth laced with nice words.
This memoir is a political one as much as her fight to take them on, she minces no words and showcases the nexus of the political parties and the fundamentalists in a way that we dont think about. Her narrative is laced with anger and furore for s...
READ MOREThis memoir is a political one as much as her fight to take them on, she minces no words and showcases the nexus of the political parties and the fundamentalists in a way that we dont think about. Her narrative is laced with anger and furore for s...
Senthilkumar Rajappan
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Memoir of Thoughts
Everyone must be aware of Taslima Nasrin one way or the other through the controversies she has been shadowed throughout the years which made her almost a household name in India.In this memoir she begins with the things she experienced in India when shebegan to live her life which was close to the roots she came from. She was a Bengali living on the other side of Bengal, which eventually she calls her second home. Her narrative isn't secluded but a straightforward points that emerge from a ...
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Exile - A Memoir
Whether one considers Taslima Nasrima a literary icon or not, one cannot deny that her life has been nothing short of phenomenal. She never shied away from speaking her mind or expressing her opinions on religion or society. She hasn’t visited her country for the last 22 years now and has been leading a vagabond existence with the label of anti Islamic. ‘Exile’ is the moving and shocking account of all that happened during her stay in India – Kolkata, Hyderabad. It is filled with nostalgia an...
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