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Taslima Nasreen

Arifur Rahman wrote 3 months ago: Taslima Nasreen was born in August 1962 in a Muslim family in Mymensingh, East Pakistan. Because the … more →

Tags: photos, woman

Essere Taslima Nasreen7 comments

bmadeccia wrote 4 months ago: La prima volta che la incontrai, nel ’95, era di passaggio a Roma e stava andando in Svezia. A Fiumi … more →

Tags: Attualità, oltre la letteratura, letture, Letteratura, India, Bangladesh, fatwa

Discovering Dhaka: Aziz Market 1 comment

shazshah wrote 6 months ago: When I left Dhaka for abroad, I was a mere mousy looking 13/14 year old chubby girl with thick glass … more →

Tags: Life, Bangladesh, Social class, Dhaka, Memory, connection, Girls, city, begger

Revolutionary writer Kamala Das passes away1 comment

arjunpuri wrote 6 months ago: I was shocked when one of my colleagues told me that Kamala Das passed away in Pune today afternoon. … more →

Tags: Literature, Alphabet of Lust, Descendants and Collected poems, Kamala Suraiya, lajja, madhavikutty, My Story !, Pune, Purdah

Engineering Faultlines1 comment

Manoj wrote 7 months ago: The shallow waves rose up imitating a distant range of hills, each hoping to climb as high as possib … more →

Tags: Kerala, India, Lok Sabha, Elections, Blogger, Lok Sabha Elections 2009, Polls, Politics, Indian Parliament

Calcutta editor arrested for Independent article1 comment

churumuri wrote 9 months ago: Many years ago, a news editor of Indian origin was arrested in Dubai for having carried a Peanuts ca … more →

Tags: People, For the Record, Newspapers, Issues and Ideas, The Independent, the statesman, Calcutta, Kolkata, Johann Hari

CHURUMURI POLL: Did the Left "save" India?20 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: View This Pollanswers Jatti kelage biddaroo meese mannu aaga-lilla, is an old Kannada saying. Meanin … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Prakash Karat, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Globalisation, Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Libéralisation, Privatisation, global financial crisis

What ambivalence? What freedom?2 comments

Aristotle The Geek wrote 1 year ago: I don’t know why the Times of India thinks that the Indian government has an “ambivalent … more →

Tags: Politics, Freedom, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Expression, India, censorship, democracy, Liberty, M.F.Husain

Patriotic non-Indians2 comments

Deepak Iyer wrote 1 year ago: After lashing out at India a few days ago for restricting her movement, writer-in-exile Taslima Nasr … more →

Tags: News You Can't Use, bangladeshis, Bangladesh, Refugees, Illegal Immigrants

Tunnel Vision - Shandana Minhas2 comments

davematt wrote 1 year ago: I have started to widen my reading just to keep myself aware of what is else is out there. I looked … more →

Tags: Highly Recommended, Book Review, Books, Chandani Lokuge, Fiction, Indian Writing in, Novel, Pakistani Authors, pakistani fiction

'Left and Right are joined at the hip of violence'8 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: Martha C. Nussbaum, the distinguished professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, has … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Nandigram, churumuri, Martha C Nussbaum, dissent magazine, west bengal, Singur, Rizwanur Rehman

The Congress had lost even before the poll began28 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: KRISHNA PRASAD writes: The colour television and the personal computer have been essential electroni … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Kannada & Karnataka, Afzal Guru, Arun Jaitely, B.S. Yediyurappa, BJP, churumuri, Congress, HKL Bhagat

Taslima Nasreen Returns To India - August

bosskitty wrote 1 year ago: Can’t I be allowed to stay in Kolkata?: Taslima Kolkata (PTI): Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasr … more →

Tags: Politics, EXILES, Asylum, Islam, Religion, India, Bangladesh, taslima nasrin, censorship

Crouching Tiger's the Hidden Chicken12 comments

Nukenah wrote 1 year ago: India. A secular democratic country with its national animal as the Tiger signifying itself as the l … more →

Tags: Politics, Religion, India, tibet, Islam, Fundamentalism, Tiger, Chicken

Prosperity and Principle 2 comments

jaded_mind wrote 1 year ago: The recent turbulence in Tibet is turning to be a trouble for India. Though no Indian life or intere … more →

Tags: Stories and Experiences, Cultural, Observation, In My Opinion, Indians, Personal Comfort, happiness, tibet, conformity

These are just five things I don't understand11 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: E.R. RAMACHANDRAN is plain baffled: How come our editors and anchors find the time and inclination t … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Manmohan Singh, churumuri, KPS Gill, Anbumani Ramadoss, Dalai Lama, Pranab Mukherjee

Taslima Nasreen lascia l’India, le minacce l'hanno fatta ammalare

Claudia Giampietri wrote 1 year ago:   Autrice di romanzi contestati, la bengalese Taslima Nasreen ha annunciato che lascerà l’India, Pae … more →

Tags: Human Rights, Freedom of Expression, persecutions against writers

Taslima, Fiona, Tibet... and we don't give a shit23 comments

churumuri wrote 1 year ago: ALOK PRASANNA writes from Hyderabad: While India launches a slick, high-decibel campaign to attract … more →

Tags: Issues and Ideas, Literati, People, Alok Prasanna, churumuri, Dalai Lama, Fiona Keeling, goa, Scarlett Keeling

Our freedoms, your lordships

asianwindow wrote 1 year ago: Pratap Bhanu Mehta in The Indian Express says some Supreme Court orders are inimical to liberal valu … more →

Tags: Society, ABVP, Arundhati Roy, Dharmakaarana, James Laine, Jodhaa Akbar, M F Husain, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, PV Narayanna


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