Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasreen’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.

Taslima Nasreen was born in Bangladesh. She started writing when she was 13. Her writings won the hearts of people across the border and she landed with the prestigious literary award Ananda from India in 1992. Taslima won The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1994. She received the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Award and Human Rights Award from Government of France, Le Prix de l' Edit de Nantes from the city of Nantes, France, Academy prize from the Royal Academy of arts, science and literature from Belgium. She is a Humanist Laureate in The International Academy for Humanism,USA. She won Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award, Germany,and Feminist Press Award, USA . She got the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize for Promotion of the Tolerance and Non-violence in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of Lyon. She got honorary citizenship from Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Metz, Thionville, Esch etc. Taslima was awarded the Condorcet-Aron Prize at the “Parliament of the French Community of Belgium” in Brussels and Ananda literary award again in 2000.

Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.

Taslima has written 40 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.

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Fish called Obama

Etheostoma obama

A new species of colourful fresh water fish has been named after President Barack Obama by the researchers who discovered it.

Obama is lucky. Got Nobel peace prize. Won a second term. A whole species is named after him. He should do some work now to make him worthy for all those honours that he already received.

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Rodney Nelson says

December 2, 2012 at 6:23 pm

He should do some work now to make him worthy for all those honours that he already received.

I’m not holding my breath waiting for this.

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philippeorlando says

December 2, 2012 at 6:41 pm

Absolutely, Obama is very lucky.
I never worried about him at anytime.

Obama gets elected he gets 4 more years a 400k/year.
Obama doesn’t get elected he gets 200k/year for the rest of his life as Federal retirement.
I bet he could have pulled out another book deal?

Now, the ones who won’t be that lucky oh let’s say by the end of January will be anybody making less than 250K/year.
Watch Obama and the Dems NOT fighting to save your Social Security and your Medicare. These two programs will still exist, but as principles. Since most Americans don’t save enough and will have health problems as they get older, watch this population sinking below poverty level as they pass the 65-70 year mark.

If he doesn’t get cancer from his smoking, Obama will be fine.

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nathanaelnerode says

December 3, 2012 at 5:10 pm

Wow, that is a beautiful fish.

I’m glad to hear that it isn’t endangered.

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Bill Openthalt says

December 3, 2012 at 5:13 pm

Not nearly as funny as a fish called Wanda.

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F [disappearing] says

December 4, 2012 at 3:17 am

E. obama was named after Barack Obama, for his work “…particularly in the areas of clean energy and environmental protection, and because he is one of our first leaders to approach conservation and environmental protection from a more global vision,” according to one of the scientists, Steve Layman, who named the new species.

About half the time, anyway.

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