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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...
...detest fundamentalism and communalism," Nasrin announces in her preface, and that is about as subtle as Shame ever gets. Even though they have lived there for generations, the Duttas seem to have dropped into Bangladesh from Mars, so alien does the specter of sectarian violence from neighboring Muslims strike them. "Why was his motherland turning her back on him?" Suranjan wonders, lolling in bed. Only Nilanjana displays some apprehension of reality: "She was thinking that no one seemed to realize that something had to be done before something awful happened to all of them...
...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...