Lajja – Taslima Nasrin

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Translated by ANCHITA GHATAK

‘ONE OF BANGLADESH’S BEST KNOWN LITERARY FIGURES’ NEW YORK TIMES

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The Dattas – Sudhamoy, Kironmoyee, and their two children, Suranjan and Maya – have lived in Bangladesh all their lives. Despite being part of the country’s small Hindu community, that is terrorised at every opportunity by Muslim fundamentalists, they refuse to leave their country, as most of their friends and relatives have done. Sudhamoy, an atheist, believes with a naive mix of optimism and idealism that his motherland will not let him down.
And then, on 6 December 1992, the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya in India is demolished by a mob of Hindu fundamentalists.  The nightmare inevitably arrives at the Dattas’ doorstep, and their world begins to fall apart.

About the Author

Taslima Nasrin, an award-winning novelist, celebrated memoirist, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writing on women’s oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. Her thirty-seven books have been translated into thirty different languages. Some of them are banned in Bangladesh. The courage of her conviction has resulted in her being banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal – both from Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. She has been prevented from returning to her country of birth for the last twenty years.

Taslima Nasrin’s works have won her the prestigious Ananda Puraskar in 1992 and 2000. She has been recognised with the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament, the Kurt Tucholsky Award from the Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Prize and numerous other awards and doctorates.

Anchita Ghatak works with development organisations on issues of poverty, rights and gender. She has translated Sunanda Sikdar’s prizewinning Bengali memoir, Dayamoyeer Katha, into English as A Life Long Ago.

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