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.

I was at Stonewall Inn on 26 June, and at pride parade in New York on 28 June

Kiss of love.

In many parts of the world, you will not be arrested even if you kill, abuse, and sexually harass people in the streets. You will not be arrested if you curse people, beat poor pickpockets to death. But you will be arrested if you kiss your loved ones in India. A few days ago some people involved in ‘kiss of love’ movement were arrested.

In protest some students from Kolkata universities kissed each other in front of Kolkata public. Those brave students are now criticized by politicians, writers and intellectuals. Shame on them! They grew up watching people hating, stabbing, shooting, and slaughtering. They don’t get shocked anymore when they see blood, chopped off limbs, and severed heads laying on the streets. But they get shocked when they see young people loving and kissing. Violence is not obscene but kiss of love is obscene for most people in India.
Kiss of love

Love

‘The Science of Love’

Everybody knows heart has nothing to do with love. But still we talk about heart while we express our love. Is a blood pumper more romantic than the brain, the most amazingly fascinating, mysterious, powerful organ of the human body? I don’t think so.

You don’t get it. Do you? Try another way.

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I was at Stonewall Inn on 26 June, and at pride parade in New York on 28 June

Kiss of love.

Love

‘The Science of Love’

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