This book was written soon after the Babri Masjid demolition
in Ayodhya on 6 December 1992. The writer has narrated the plight of a Hindu
family in Bangladesh soon
after the riots spread in India
and repercussion of it in Bangladesh.
Muslims in Bangladesh
were savaging Hindus. Every hour incidents of rapes, incineration of temples, and
house trampling of Hindu were flashing on TV. Despite this Sudhamay (leads
protagonist and Hindu) was averse to others demand, while some Hindus were
fleeing Bangladesh he wanted to stay in his motherland in the hope that riots
will be recede some day. Like everyone he was also the staunch lover of his
homeland and wanted to exercise his rights in his beloved country. But day
after day situation was getting worse and they were being deprived of their
fundamentals rights. Their atrocious behavior towards Hindu wasn’t waning.
One passage that really shook me,
“Loving ones country is a universal feeling. But when
certain groups of people find that because they do not owe religious allegiance
to the declared national religion, their religion is regarded as secondary or
is perhaps even third grade in status. And when they are also branded as second
class citizens, their egos take a tremendous battering.”
Taslima had tried to put her thoughts and reality of what
was happening in Bangladesh
without any bias and may be that was the reason that Muslims of Bangladesh
issued Fatwa against her and fundamentalists in Bangladesh were clamoring for her
life.
It’s really a good book to know the reality of what happened
in Bangladesh
after the Babri Masjid demolition. Many people don’t find courage to write against
his/her own religion but Taslima Nasrin has it but then she has to pay hefty
price for it. We need writers of this kind who try to reveal the reality. I
think India
has lost a very good writer in the name of Salman Rushdie. Hope in coming years
we give enough space to the writer to write freely without and restrictions.
“True love is always
inside us, loving is learning to use it.”
Have a great weekend!
3 comments:
I have also got it and read it..its the truth told clearly..but in India you cant write anything wwhere muslims are culprit, you become communal, write anything against hindus, you are secular..
Have heard a lot abt the book.
Thanks for the review:-)!!!
@Renu ji: No can claim to be a secular. We are all hypocrite in some form of the other. Yeah the book is brilliantly written! :)
@Reflection: Yeah please do! Thanks :)
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