taslima nasrin

Taslima Nasrin (also Taslima Nasreen, born 25 August 1962) is a Bangladeshi-Swedish author and former physician who has been living in exile since 1994. From a literary profile as a poet in the late 1970s, she gained global attention by the beginning of 1990s owing to her essays and novels with feminist views and criticism of what she characterizes as all "misogynistic" religions including Islam.After living more than a decade in Europe and the USA, Taslima moved to India in 2005, but was banished from the country in 2008, although she has been staying in Delhi, India on a resident permit long-term, multiple-entry or 'X' visa since 2004.She advocates freedom of thought and human rights by publishing, lecturing, and campaigning. She has been unable to return either to her home in Bangladesh or to her adopted home of West Bengal, India.

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