औरत के हक में

by Taslima Nasrin, Munmun Sarkar (Translator)

Aurat Ke Haq Mein

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন) is an award-winning Bangladeshi writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. Early in her literary career, she wrote mainly poetry, and published half a dozen collections of poetry between 1982 and 1993, often with female oppression as a theme. She started publishing prose in the early 1990s, and produced three collections of essays and four novels before the publication of her 1993 novel Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja), or Shame. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. Since fleeing Bangladesh in 1994, she has lived in many countries, and lives in United States as of July 2016. Nasrin 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.'

Reviews

[Swati Saxena · Rating 3 out of 5]

It took me a long time to read this - a lot of relevant things in there, specially the way she has quoted religious texts to show how women aren't considered a human being in all religions. Some things seem to have been lost in the Bengali to Hindi translation though. Also, there is a lot of repitition of the same thoughts and insights in different ways. I'd have liked to read more stories as reinforcement of those ideas.