"I want to live in Kolkata; I don't……" — Taslima Nasrin
"I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture."
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Taslima Nasrin
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28 Quotes by Taslima Nasrin
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Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions.
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It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion…
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men…
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I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be…
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Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness.…
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like…
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I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of…
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The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make…
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Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside…
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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I…
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I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in…
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I…
— Bharati Mukherjee
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In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts:…
— Victoria Finlay
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Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional…
— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
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My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns.…
— Satyajit Ray
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I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies,…
— Mithun Chakraborty
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My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali…
— Ronit Roy
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I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and…
— Shreya Ghoshal
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