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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Yep, we can fool the brain.

It is about brain to brain information sharing.

One rat thinks. Other rat reacts. Or, one rat brain talks to another using electronic link. The brain implants allows sensory and motor signals to be sent from one rat to another. The second rat works as a biological or organic computer, a computer in which numerous brains can be connected.

Today it’s rats. Tomorrow it will be humans.

Scientists said,

“We will have a way to exchange information across millions of people without using keyboards or voice recognition devices or the type of interfaces that we normally use today.”

But we have to put electrodes right at the brain sites to get information into the brain.

We already know that paralyzed people control robotic arms using brain-computer interface. Today’s study is about transmiting information from one brain to another.

Humans will use this method for themselves someday. I know it will not happen in my lifetime. But I can imagine a world with full of walking computers. The world will definitely look much different than today’s world in 100 years.

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Marcus Ranum says

March 1, 2013 at 2:50 am

I can’t wait to see how the people who believe in “Free Will” react to this.

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- Taslima Nasreen says
  
  March 1, 2013 at 10:32 am
  
  Oh My Goosebumps! There will be no Free Will at all?
  
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Bruce Gorton says

March 1, 2013 at 12:22 pm

I for one welcome our electro rat hive mind overlords.

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Sarita Ahmed says

March 1, 2013 at 7:25 pm

transmitting information from one brain to another is nodoubt 1 of d greatest inventions of modern science.but hope there will be a ‘willing2send data’ option 2 zip up secret..may robotic techic not snatch human qualities,few left in us..

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kraut says

March 1, 2013 at 7:34 pm

“There will be no Free Will at all?”

Define “Free Will”.

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The Lorax says

March 2, 2013 at 12:30 am

It’s just a matter of time. Brain-machine interface is the next step. I doubt brain surgery is going to be a fad any time soon, but computers controlled by thought is probably only a few decades away.

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aziraphale says

March 2, 2013 at 4:37 am

I can see very bad things coming from this.

First, anyone convicted of a violent crime should have an implant which, if they again have violent impulses, informs the police. Why, not, if it will save lives?
Next, suppose someone’s first violent crime is a murder. Wouldn’t that be terrible? Clearly everyone should have the implant.
Next, suppose some people can hide their violent intentions even from themselves? We need to protect against that. Terrorists tend to be political radicals, so we’ll monitor for radicalism…

Best not even start on that road.

And yes, these thoughts are inspired by Robert Sheckley’s lovely story “Watchbird”.

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