Controversy of Taslima Nasrin's book Lajja. How is uprootment depicted in her book .

1. Literature presentation
Taslima nasrin

2. Brief history of partition
1. the partition took place on the 14th august 1947 when the British Indian
province of Bengal was divided between India and Pakistan
2. Hindu west Bengal became a province of India whilst the Eastern
predominantly Muslim became a province of Pakistan
3. In 1971 after the Bangladesh liberation War, the Eastern Province of
Bengal had now become an independent country now known as
Bangladesh
4. In independent Bangladesh, state sponsored discrimination of Hindus
largely stopped. But like India, the two communities relationship
remains tense and occasional communal violence occurred, such as in
the aftermath of Babri mosque demolition, migration to india continues
to present day although now it is mostly due to economic reasons and is
not limited to Hindus alone.

3. MODERN MAP OF INDIA

4. POSITIVE NEGATIVE
A new life for some people to start
afresh
Discrimination and separation of
different classes therefore violence and
Communal riots taking place
The poverty rate has declined
considerably since independence, and
per-capita income has doubled from
1975 levels in Bangladesh
Large sums of refugees, people were
lost and isolated, estimated that over 10
million people fleed across the border
More jobs available as new
infrastructure and devlopment of the
country in progress
Mass destruction and loss of lively hood
EFFECT ON PEOPLE

5. Taslima nasrin

6. Lajja: Synopsis
Lajja is about a Bengali family, the Duttas, who are Hindus by
birth, but are atheists in their belief system. The family consists
of Sudhamoy and his wife, Kiranmoyee, and their two adult
children, Maya and Suranjan.
Based on 1992 riots in Bangladesh following the babri masjid
demolition, during which there was widespread violent riots in
Bangladesh, against its Hindu minority community, it also
mentions in detail two other significant events in Bangladesh
history:

7. Characters of the book.
Sudhamoy (Nilanjana’s father)
Kiranmoyee (Nilanjana’s mother)
 Suranjan (Nilanjana’s brother)
Nilanjana aka Maya.

8. Impact of the book on the people
• The Bangladeshi government filed a case
against Nasrin on the charges of "hurting
religious feelings of the people". Over 300,000
people demanded her death while general
strikes were called all over the country to
demand Taslima's execution in 1994. The
people also offered $2000 to anyone who
killed her. A non-bailable arrest warrant was
also issued against her.

9. Taslima Nasrin- Migration
1993 novel Lajja or Shame, in which a Hindu family is
persecuted by Muslims this publication changed her life
and career dramatically. She had written against Islamic
philosophy, angering many Muslims of Bangladesh, who
called for a ban on her novel. August 1994 she was brought
up on "charges of making inflammatory statements," and
faced death threats from Islamic fundamentalists and
religious Muslims.. "militant faction threatened to set loose
thousands of poisonous snakes in the capital unless she
was executed." After spending two months in hiding, at the
end of 1994 she escaped to Sweden, consequently ceasing
her medical practice and becoming a full-time writer and
activist.

10. Life in Exile-After fleeing Bangladesh in 1994, she spent the next 10
years in exile in the West. She returned to the east and relocated to
Kolkata, India, in 2004, where she lived until 2007. Nasrin left for the
West again in 2008.
1994–2004, exile in the West -Leaving Bangladesh at the end of
1994, she lived in exile in Western Europe and North America for 10
years. Her Bangladeshi passport had been revoked; she was granted
citizenship by the Swedish government and took refuge in Germany .
She then had to wait for 6 years (1994–1999) to get a visa to visit
India, and never got a Bangladeshi passport . Later In March 2000, she
visited Mumbai.
2004–2007, life in Kolkata-In 2004, she was granted a renewable
temporary residential permit by India and moved to Kolkata in the
state of West Bengal, though it refused to grant her Indian citizenship.

11. Post- colonialism

12. Highlighting the post-colonial
term in lajja
Post-colonial literature addresses the problems and
consequences of the de-colonization of a country and
of a nation, especially the political and cultural
independence of formerly colonial peoples, it also
covers literary, which justify racialism and
colonialism and political tension.
Taslima Nasrin a contemporary woman novelist who
presents the agony of the post colonial citizens of
Bangladesh. Their quest for self-identity is the pivotal
point in her novel 'Lajja' .
Nasrin questions the conversion of Bangladesh into
an Islamist state, leading to the treatment of Hindus
as second class citizens.

13. "Let us live, let us go away."
when they were tortured and terrorised by the political and religious
heads.
When they were uprooted out of the ancestral home along with the
other members of the family. They found it hard to adjust to the
new surroundings and would often wake up crying at night and
remember the beloved home they
had left behind.
All through the book, we can see people tortured, humiliated and
living in fear for no fault of their own. People who have fought for
the independence of their country, being ostracized due to the
religion they were born into.
It is also written with anger and sadness that anyone who believes in
equality, human rights, democracy and secularism, would feel.

15. Relating to the current situation