Undeterred by the attack on her by radical Muslim fundamentalists in Hyderabad and a fatwa against her, exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin is busy penning the sequel of "Lajja", 14 years after the book annoyed clerics in her country.
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"Sharam, the sequel of Lajja (Shame), has the principal characters of the first novel who came over to India from Bangladesh in 1993 and is set in the backdrop here," Taslima told PTI here.
"Sharam, the sequel of Lajja (Shame), has the principal characters of the first novel who came over to India from Bangladesh in 1993 and is set in the backdrop here," Taslima told PTI here.
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Speaking about the attack on her at Hyderabad, Taslima said "I had seen demonstrations against me in India. I have heard people issuing fatwas for beheading me and to blacken my face.
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"But this was the first time here that I saw some people trying to harm me physically. I could read their murderous intention in their expressions. For some time when I hid in a room in the press club as they banged the door from outside. I saw death staring at me."
"But this was the first time here that I saw some people trying to harm me physically. I could read their murderous intention in their expressions. For some time when I hid in a room in the press club as they banged the door from outside. I saw death staring at me."
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While expressing gratitude to the Andhra Pradesh government for ensuring her safety, she said the threats by MIM leaders would not deter her as a writer.
While expressing gratitude to the Andhra Pradesh government for ensuring her safety, she said the threats by MIM leaders would not deter her as a writer.
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I guess we should all be looking forward to the new "literary" work of hers then!
In an article in the Times of India we learn that the Taslima attack un-Islamic! I liked that line: "All this in the name of Islam, as though Islam stands for such hooliganism."
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