Agent provocateur or a bold voice of dissent against patriarchy? Rubaiyat Hossain re-examines Bangladesh's most controversial author.
Taslima Nasreen: Woman in exile
Constructing Outraged
Communities and State Responses:
The Taslima Nasreen Saga in 1994 and 2007
Amlan Dutta's article September 2008 Dainik Statesman. (Bengali)
Article: OPERATION TASLIMA issue
Article: CITIZENSHIP issue
Rushdie 'n' Taslima: The yearning to be an Indian
Taslima is through a crucial phase of her life. Can she survive it?
Articles: BOOK BAN issue
Save Culture From The “Banned-It” Gangs and The Culture Cops
Article: FATWA issue
Muslim Cleric offers reward to anyone who tars the face of feminist writer
The News: Muslim cleric offers reward to anyone who tars the face of feminist writer
The News of the Muslim Fundamentalists (22 Feb-7March)
The Death Sentence passed by Islamic fundamentalists against Taslima Nasreen
THE REAL SHAME, Editorial The Times of India,30 September 1993
BIGOTRY AGAIN, Editorial The
Statesman, 1 October 1993
OUR SHAME AND DISGRACE, Editorial Mainstream, 2 October 1993
TASLIMA'S TRUTH, Indian Express, 10 October 1993
SHAME AND PERFIDY, Editorial The Statesman 14
October 1993
QUILL COURAGE 1993
Letter to Taslima from Salman Rushdie when she first received the fatwa 1994
Sam Wainwright, "Taslima Nasreen: 'I Will Not Be Silenced' "
Religious Fundamentalism
Religious Extremism and nationalism in Bangladesh
The Crime of Blasphemy 1998-1999
"Taslima defies death threats" BBC News 1 December 1998
"Muslims Continue Death Calls for Nasrin, Rushdie"
"Taslima Goes Into Exile," BBC News, 26 January 1999
"Taslima wieder auf der Flucht,"Die Gazette 12 Marz 1999
Sword of Truth
"Taslima Nasreen: A Flame of Truth in the Darkness of Lies," Sword of Truth, 30 Oct 1999
Muslims Threaten to Harm Taslima Nasreen in Mumbai 26 Feb 2000
Editorial, Communalism Combat, March 2000
"The Crime of Blasphemy," Women Against Fundamentalisms
Anthony McIntyre, "Taslima Nasreen"
Taslima Naseen and the fight against fundamentalism
Hindu fundamentalists are angry 2000
"Arrest Taslima, says Bengal BJP," Parwez Haefeez in Calcutta
Court Sentence 2002
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The Bangladeshi feminist writer, Taslima Nasreen, has
been given a one-year prison sentence on a charge of writing derogatory
comments about Islam in several of her books.
This is the first sentence against the writer who was forced to flee the
country in 1994 after receiving death threats from Muslim extremists.
Taslima Nasreen's criticism of traditional Islamic values and customs angered
many hard line Islamic groups in Bangladesh.
Taslima Nasrin’s brushes with law in her motherland
One Year prison sentence on a charge of writing.....
"Bangladesh Court Sentences Taslima," BBC News, 13 Oct 2002
"Jail Term Surprises Bangladesh Author," BBC News, 14 Oct 2002
Religion
"Positive Atheism's Big List of Quotations"
Interviews :
Irshad Manji's interview with Taslima
An interview with Institute for secularisation of Islamic society
They wanted to kill me
Interview
with Evan Solomon, CBC
No religion gives women freedom
One Brave Woman vs. Religious Fundamentalism
I am not a self exiled person, I was forced to leave Bangladesh
The soil here smells like Bangladesh
When religion turns into intolerance
Dooneys Cafe : Taslima and Salman: A fatwa with a difference
Development impossible without empowering women
Feminism against fundamentalism
ANALYSIS
Taslima Nasreen: Coup de foudre...(French)
Ketaki Kushari Dyson's opinion
femmes,manifestez-vous! (French)
De Islam, hoelang nog? ( Dutch)
Taslima Nasreen ( Portugese)
Taslima, undici anni dopo ( Italian)
taslima nasrin ( Spanish)
I am Not a Self Exiled Person, I was Forced to Leave Bangladesh : Taslima
THE LIST
List of notable secular humanists