Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0140240519 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-140-24051-1 |
No of pages | 216 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Penguin India |
Published Date | 14 Oct 2000 |
Tashima Nasrin (also Tashima Nasreen, born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist and human rights activist. She is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death.
Nasrin's works have been translated into 30 different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. She has been blacklisted and banished from the Bengal region (both from Bangladesh and the West Bengal part of India).
Nasrin was born to Dr. Rajab Ali and Edu Ara in Mymensingh. Her father was a physician, and a professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Mymensingh Medical College, also at Sir Salim Ullah Medical College, Dhaka and Dhaka Medical College.
Nasrin studied medicine and became a physician. She gained global attention by the beginning of 1990s owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of what she characterizes as all "misogynistic" religions including Islam.
Nasrin has been living in exile since 1994. After living more than a decade in Europe and the United States, she moved to India in 2004, but was banished from the country in 2008, although she has been staying in Kolkata, India on a resident permit long-term, multiple-entry or 'X' visa since 2004.
Nasrin advocates freedom of thought and human rights by publishing, lecturing, and campaigning. She is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society. She has been unable to return either to her home in Bangladesh or to her adopted home of West Bengal, India.
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Fundamentalism, genocide and communalism make up the story of Aja, written by Tashima Nasrin. The book delves into the complex religious structure of Bangladesh in the 20th century. The situation involved a majority of Muslims against a minority of Hindus.
The Dutta's, who lived in Bangladesh for as long as they could remember, were thrown into the country-wide riots that followed the demolition of Bari Masjid at Ajodhya in India, on 6 December 1992.When Niranjana Dutta or Maya, seeks out her brother, Sranan, to take action against the surfacing angst of the Muslim Fundamentalists, his mind refuses to accept that notion.
He becomes rebellious and is unable to understand the reason behind the animosity against Hindus or his family. After hiding out once during the unrest of October 1991, Sranan cannot bring himself to seek out the help of his friends yet again.Sudha Moy Dutta, their father, unswervingly loves his country. To uproot his family based on hostility against religion is unacceptable to him. But once the contempt is unmasked, his family is endangered and he is forced to rethink his decisions.
Aja, written in a mere seven days, is a fictitious account of true pain, horror and the sufferings of the Bangladeshi Hindu community.The 12th edition of Aja was published by Penguin India in 2000. It is available in paperback format.
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