Woman means taking away woe of
the man. She is meant to serve men and bear children and whenever think to move
out of this tightly woven patriarchal structure, she will be shown the correct
path through one or the other way. It is hard to see a woman raising head
against men and religion discriminating against women and talking freely on the
bodily integrity and freedom.
Taslima Nasreen raised her voice against the
conservative thoughts and hierarchical society where women are not allowed to
think beyond a limit. Threatened to be beheaded for her writings by some
fundamentalist groups and charged of blasphemy, she continued with her writings
and stood firm on her belief. She wanted shariya (Islamic laws) to be
abolished and it became the major controversy.
A medical practitioner by profession ceased
her medicine practice and became a full time writer and activist. All her great
piece of writings like (Lajja, Amar mayebela, Utal Hawa,Dwikhondito, Sei sob
ondhokar,ko) are banned. Readers are devoid of these beautiful pieces of
works by Taslima Nasreen. Freedom of expression of a writer has been taken away
for the false pride and ego of male dominated society and to woo some religious
fundamentalists.
She has to live in exile and could
not even attend the funeral of her parents. Her own chosen way of life to
express her desires and thoughts became the cause of pain for life long. She couldn’t
even breathe in free air who always wished to open her arms and spread her
carelessly without caring for society or anybody. In her book Ko, she
wrote about her sexual relationships that became indigestible to many. It
became a matter of shame or question of ego for the society when a woman who is
supposed to hide behind the veil in their society started writing about freedom
and equality for women and thus trying to unveil the imposed burden of religion
and culture.
How can a women voice be allowed
to be raised to that level whose eco can even stir the deep-rooted patriarchy
within society? This was not acceptable to the dominating sex and thus her
writings were banned and even she was not spared to live freely in a liberal
atmosphere. She remained hidden in undisclosed location for a long time, not
allowed to attend public meetings; life became even more miserable than before.
Her own country doesn’t want to listen her name, her own women (of Bangladesh )
whom she fought for, could not understand her words and got swayed with men who
called her prostitute for writing about her sexual relationships. Sheikh Hasina
the then prime minister of Bangladesh called Amar Mayebela (my girlhood)
as pornography.
She fought against the male
chauvinistic society for the equal rights of women and for that she is
prohibited to enter her country. Her character was maligned and assassinated
for speaking overtly for the cause of freedom and bodily integrity for women She
is also lying somewhere in darkness aloof from the world affairs as her books
got cut from its readers.
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