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Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja) (Shame) is a novel in Bengali by Taslima Nasrin, a writer of Bangladesh. The word lajja/lôjja means "shame" in Bengali and many other Indo-Aryan languages.
- Taslima Nasrin
- 1993
In the winter of 1994, shortly after Lajja was released, I remember participating in a Quiz contest and being asked to name the author of Lajja. I had answered correctly: Taslima Nasreen. It was two years then since the Babri Masjid had been demolished, but I hadn't known of any connection between the demolition and the book.
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Her breakthrough novel Lajja was published in 1993, and attracted wide attention because of its controversial subject matter. It contained the struggle of a patriotic Bangladeshi Hindu family in a Muslim environment. [62] [63] Initially written as a thin documentary, Lajja grew into a full-length novel as the author later revised it ...
Oct 15, 1993 · Lajja (Shame) is a novel in Bengali by Taslima Nasrin, a writer of Bangladesh. The book was first published in 1993 in Bengali and was subsequently banned in Bangladesh.
Sep 22, 2014 · Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin says she did not criticise Islam in her controversial novel “Lajja” and the fatwa against her is because of her criticism of the religion in many of her other books.
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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.
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Taslima Nasrin. Penguin UK, Sep 15, 2014 - Fiction - 240 pages. A savage indictment of religious extremism and man’s inhumanity to man, Lajja was banned in Bangladesh, but became a bestseller...
