Word: shame
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Formerly a practicing physician, Nasrin has been a target of Muslim fundamentalists since the publication last year of her novella Shame (Lajja) which portrays the brutalization of a Hindu family amid Muslim reprisals. A Hindu chauvinist party in India used the book for propaganda purposes, fomenting further animus against her at home. Bangladesh banned the book...
Thanks to her enemies, Nasrin has become a cause celebre in a West almost totally ignorant of her writings. About the only place to experience her firsthand is in her novel Shame, published in India and translated into English. The expanded version of a novella-length work first issued in early 1993, Shame tells the story of the Dutta family -- father Sudhamoy, mother Kironmoyee, son Suranjan and daughter Nilanjana -- Bangladeshi Hindus caught up in a wave of Muslim reprisals shortly after the December 1992 destruction of the Babri mosque by Hindu zealots in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya...
...Kennedy was a man who had big supporters in the South and made judicial appointments that would make a liberal hang his head in shame," Chatfield said...
...ignored encourages him to continue. The trick is to stop the abuse when it is still in the slap-and-shove stage, even if it means ending a marriage and breaking up a home. Potential victims would do well to heed the words of my grandmother: "Hurt me once, shame on you. Hurt me twice, shame...
...cold, distracted stare that drives a spouse to tears, the little digs and rivalries. At best, the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another -- generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate and rage and shame...