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Lajja (Shame)
 

Lajja (Shame)

by T. Nasrin

Lajja, the controversial novel by Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, is a savage indictment of religious extremism and man's inhumanity to man. Unremittingly dark and menacing, the novel exposes the mindless bloodthirstiness of fundamentalism and brilliantly captures the insanity of violence in out time. This was translated from the Bengali by Tutul Gupta. (read review)

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Anup
  • Rated 4 stars

“sensational truth”

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hina a
  • Rated 2 stars

“The first wrd that comes to my mind after reading this controversial novel,Lajja,by Taslima Nasrin is DISGUSTING.It is absolutely disgusting to knw wat man can do to fellw human beings.It was barbarism at its extreme peak.The acts of inhumanity being practisd by d politicions of 3 developn nations.
Property wort millions was doomed,ppl were lft homeless n countryless jst bcoz one political party hd wantd 2 rise to power n had givn way to one f d mst bloody religious riots f d nation.And...”

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  • Rated 3.359375 stars
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  • Rated 3 stars
  

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  • manureporter

    manureporter said:

    “All these years after the first reading I was disappointed since the novel has unfortunately hit the wrong target. I wondered all these years why it couldn’t be the trigger point of a useful debate on majoritarian communalism which in Indian situation would have helped analyse the anatomy of Sangh Parivar politics. But the intellectually void fundamental elements in the Muslim clerical leadership took offense and have been carrying out a vicious attack against the writer who had shown an outstanding commitment towards secular humanism. In fact, they could have turned the table on Saffronists. On the otherhand, the likes of Modi and Advani, the Hindu counterparts of Muslim and Christian fanatics in other parts of the world, comfortably sit at home and slyly smile at the vociferous expression of intolerance by the Muslim fundamentalists.

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    posted Friday, February 1 2008
  • shayani d

    shayani d said:

    “whts ur opinion abt the book and hw will u rate it?”

    posted Sunday, November 4 2007
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