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Taslima Nasrin is a Bangladeshi-Swedish writer, physician, feminist, secular humanist, and activist. She is known for her writings on feminism and her criticism of Islam; some of her books are banned in Bangladesh.
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science · Bangladeshi-Swedish feminist writer (born 1962) · writer · physician · women's rights activist · poet · novelist · columnist · feminist · also Taslima Nasrin, Taslima, Taslima Nasrin Sarkar, Taslima Nasreen, Nasrin
Born 25 August 1962 · Q208468
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Public attention spiked: 3,068 Wikipedia readers in one day, 20.2× the usual 152, with 1 article edits. Coverage that week: “Taslima Nasrin returns to Kolkata after 19 years in exile” (NewsBytes).
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NewsBytes: Taslima Nasrin returns to Kolkata after 19 years in exile
Public attention spiked: 13,152 Wikipedia readers in one day, 86.5× the usual 152, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Taslima Nasrin returns to Kolkata after 19 years in exile” (NewsBytes).
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The Hans India: Taslima Nasrin's return to Kolkata echoes her novel Phera, but with a crucial difference
The Hindu: Author Taslima Nasrin returns to Kolkata after 19 years, welcomed by BJP
The Hindu: Taslima Nasrin: The exiled Bangladeshi author who returns to Kolkata after 19 years
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Public attention spiked: 4,965 Wikipedia readers in one day, 32.7× the usual 152, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: as per source
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Returned to Kolkata after nearly 20 years in exile from the city
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Taslima faced significant backlash after asserting that Mahfuj Alam was the leader of Hizb-ut-Tahrir in a Facebook status despite not having any concrete evidence of it
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Taslima tweeted "Boycott Islam"
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“s music. But whenever i see his dear daughter, i feel suffocated. It is really depressing to learn that even educated women in a cultural family can get brainwashed very easily!Khatija Rahman replied to this tweet in an Instagram post by saying,I”
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Nasrin took to Twitter to show her support for the decision
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Published “A State-of-the-Art Survey on Deep Learning Theory and Architectures” in Electronics — cited 1,347 times.
Garnered criticism from all over Bangladesh following her comment on Abrar Fahad in a Facebook status where she claimed "Abrar Fahad behaved like a Shibir Member"
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And Nasreen is also seeking permanent residency in India but no decision has been taken on it by the Home Ministry
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Awarded Emperor Has No Clothes Award (2015).
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Nasrin was threatened with death by Al Qaeda-linked extremists, and so the Center for Inquiry assisted her in travelling to the United States, where she now lives
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Awarded Ingemar Hedenius Prize (2014).
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Published “Burden and aetiology of diarrhoeal disease in infants and young children in developing countries (the Global Enteric Multicenter Study, GEMS): a prospective, case-control study” in The Lancet — cited 3,177 times.
Awarded honorary doctorate from the University of Paris-VII (2011).
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Awarded Simone de Beauvoir Prize (2008).
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And later worked as a research scholar at New York University
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And co-signed a statement calling on the Indian government to grant her permanent residency in India or, should she ask for it, citizenship
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Elected and serving members of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen made threats against Taslima Nasreen, pledging that the fatwa against her and Salman Rushdie were to be upheld
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Criticised US foreign policy and tried to read her poem titled "America" to a large Bengali crowd at the North American Bengali Conference at Madison Square Garden in New York City, but was booed off the stage
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Awarded UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize (2004).
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And has been staying there on a resident permit, multiple-entry, or 'X' visa since
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Was granted a renewable temporary residential permit by India and moved to Kolkata in the state of West Bengal, which shares a common heritage and language with Bangladesh, In an interview in 2007, after she had been
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“Every ban and censorship hurt. But banishment hurts the most. Banishment took away the ground from beneath my feet. What I need now most is a firm footing to stand up somewhere to fight for the freedom of expression. I was banished from both East and West Bengal.”
“I was born in a Muslim family and Muslim women suffer under Islam.”
“Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.”
“The Islam religion and their scriptures are out of place and out of time. It still follows the 7th century laws and is hopeless. The need of the hour is not reformation but revolution.”
Awarded Ananda Puraskar (2000).
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For her memoir Amar Meyebela (My Girlhood, published in English in 2002)
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For "reckless comments" against Islam and the prophet Mohammad
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Wrote Meyebela, My Bengali Girlhood, her biographical account from birth to adolescence
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And collaborated with her on an adaptation of her poetry to music
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Awarded Monismanien Prize (1995).
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Awarded Sakharov Prize (1994).
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Awarded Kurt Tucholsky Prize (1994).
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And attracted wide attention because of its controversial subject matter
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Nasrin produced two novellas which failed to draw attention
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Won her first Ananda Purashkar award, a prestigious award for Bengali writers
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And 2000 for "Nirbachita Kolam" and "Amar Meyebela"
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Nasrin began to contribute to the weekly political magazine Khaborer Kagoj, edited by Nayeemul Islam Khan, and published from Dhaka
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Studied at Mymensingh Medical College, Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (1984).
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(SSC) and higher secondary studies in college (HSC) in 1978, she studied medicine at Mymensingh Medical College, an affiliated medical college of the University of Dhaka, and graduated in 1984 with an MBBS degree
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Born 1962-08-25.
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