Saturday, July 02, 2005

She is right !

"A Taslima Nasreen could not have been born or have become a Taslima Nasreen in any South Asian country other than Bangladesh, especially not in India. India would have never produced [such] a Muslim woman... '' says Lubna Marium , Bangladeshi dancer, writer and ICCR (Indian Council for Cultural Research) Fellow in India. What obtains in India, according to her, does not constitute religious freedom. In her view, Bangladesh is the most successful state in South Asia.''

"Of course we have problems, of poverty, criminalisation of politics, corruption. But as a Muslim woman, I wouldn't want to be born in any other South Asian country... In Bangladesh, we have a voice of our own, we have a platform of our own, we have a space of our own and I think we can do a lot for our Muslim sisters here," says Ms. Marium, who is now studying Sanskrit in Calicut University. Full Story

1 Comments:

Blogger llanin said...

Not only for women BD is also been a nice place for Men.
anywayz, KoOl blog.

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