Taslima Nasrin is an author and a poet from Bangladesh who wrote several books

about the oppression against women, minorities in terms of casts and religion. She

is also a physician by profession, and involved several of her knowledge from that

field in her literature. Taslima Nasrin wrote several books that became controversial

because of the people who got offended about the explicit inequality that was

explained between gender and religions. However, the one book that was most

controversial and gathered international attention was Taslima Nasrin’s ‘Lajja’ that

was written in 1993. Soon after her book got published, in 1994, the book was ban in

Bangladesh and there was a fatwa placed against Taslima Nasrin because the majority

population of Muslims in the country was highly offended by the content of the book.

This was the moment when the author got well known outside Bangladesh and India.

The book ‘Lajja: Shame’ talks explicitly about how the minorities, the

Hindus, in Bangladesh were affected after the massacre of the Babri mosque in 1992.

After witnessing brutal sights in her own country, Taslima Nasrin penned down the

story for the book in mere seven days a year later and got it published. The story

of ‘Lajja’ is about a family of four members who belong to the Hindu religion who

were attacked by the Muslims during the demolition of Babri Mosque. In the book,

even though the family was a communist, and believed in humanity more than