![]() In August 1994 she was brought up on "charges of making inflammatory statements," and faced criticism from Islamic fundamentalists. In May 1994 she was interviewed by the Kolkata edition of The Statesman, which quoted her as calling for a revision of the Quran she claims she only called for abolition of the Sharia, the Islamic religious law. In October 1993, a radical fundamentalist group called the Council of Islamic Soldiers offered a bounty for her death. Many of her opposers took to the streets demanding her execution by hanging. ![]() Nasrin suffered a number of physical and other attacks for her critical scrutiny of Islam and her demand for women's equality. She started publishing prose in the late 1980s, and produced three collections of essays and four novels before the publication of her documentary novel Lajja ( Bengali: লজ্জা, romanized: Lôjja, lit.'Shame') in which a Hindu family was being attacked by Muslim fanatics and decided to leave the country. Literary career Įarly in her literary career, Nasrin wrote mainly poetry, and published half a dozen collections of poetry between 19, often with female oppression as a theme, and often containing very graphic language. In the course of writing she took a feminist approach. She was born into a Muslim family however, she became an atheist over time. While she studied and practised medicine, she saw girls who had been raped she also heard women cry out in despair in the delivery room if their baby was a girl. After graduation, she worked at a family planning clinic in Mymensingh, then practised at the gynaecology department of Mitford hospital and at the anaesthesia department of Dhaka Medical College hospital. In college, she wrote and edited a poetry journal called Shenjuti. After high school in 1976 (SSC) and higher secondary studies in college ( HSC) in 1978, she studied medicine at the Mymensingh Medical College, an affiliated medical college of the University of Dhaka and graduated in 1984 with an MBBS degree. Her father was a physician, and a professor of Medical Jurisprudence in Mymensingh Medical College, also at Sir Salimullah Medical College, Dhaka and Dhaka Medical College. Rajab Ali and Edul Ara in Mymensingh into a Bengali Muslim family. 5 Writers and intellectuals for and against Nasrin. ![]() ![]()
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