25 Facts About Taslima Nasreen

Taslima Nasreen is known for her writing on women's oppression and criticism of religion.

Taslima Nasreen has been blacklisted and banished from the Bengal region.

Taslima Nasreen gained global attention by the beginning of 1990s owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of what she characterizes as all "misogynistic" religions.

Taslima Nasreen's father was a physician, and a professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Mymensingh Medical College, at Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka and Dhaka Medical College.

Taslima Nasreen was born into a Muslim family; however, she became an atheist over time.

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Taslima Nasreen returned to the East and relocated to Kolkata, India, in 2004, where she lived until 2007.

Taslima Nasreen was then forced to live under house arrest in Delhi for 3 months.

Taslima Nasreen had no other alternative but to leave India in 2008.

Taslima Nasreen was not allowed to live in India for a while, but ultimately Nasrin, determined to live in the subcontinent, moved to India from the US.

Taslima Nasreen allegedly had to wait for six years to get a visa to visit India.

Taslima Nasreen never got a Bangladeshi passport to return to the country when her mother, and later her father, were on their death beds.

In 2007, elected and serving members of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen made threats against Tasleema Taslima Nasreen, pledging that the fatwa against her and Salman Rushdie were to be abided by.

Taslima Nasreen explained that "I don't want to leave India at this stage and would rather fight for my freedom here, " but she had to be hospitalised for three days with several complaints.

Taslima Nasreen eventually returned to India, but was forced to stay in New Delhi as the West Bengal government refused to permit her entry.

Currently her visa received a one-year extension in 2016 and Taslima Nasreen is seeking permanent residency in India but no decision has been taken on it by the Home Ministry.

Taslima Nasreen succeeded in attracting a wider readership when she started writing columns in late 1980s, and, in the early 1990s, she began writing novels, for which she has won significant acclaim.

Taslima Nasreen's writing is characterised by two connected elements: her struggle with the Islam of her native culture, and her feminist philosophy.

Taslima Nasreen cites Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir as influences, and, when pushed to think of one closer to home, Begum Rokeya, who lived during the time of undivided Bengal.

Taslima Nasreen has always advocated for an Indian Uniform civil code, and said that criticism of Islam is the only way to establish secularism in Islamic countries.

Taslima Nasreen said that Triple talaq is despicable and the All India Muslim Personal Law Board should be abolished.

Taslima Nasreen used to write articles for online media venture The Print in India.

Taslima Nasreen received her second Ananda Purashkar award in 2000, for her memoir Amar Meyebela.

Taslima Nasreen's work has been adapted for TV and even turned into music.

Taslima Nasreen stated that those with "bad genes" should not reproduce.

Taslima Nasreen Nasrin has received international awards in recognition of her contribution towards the cause of freedom of expression.

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