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A review by chuck9997
Lajja: Shame by Taslima Nasrin
4.0
This is not a very well-written book but certainly a brave one, for it checks all the boxes required- being banned, burned and the writer living in exile.
The book focuses on how communalism pushed by political agendas causes people to abandon the places they have been rooted for generations. Its gut wrenching to read the charachters in the book getting chipped away from their idealist principles to finally scumb to despair, not just due to the fear for life, but also the hopelessness arising from the inability to digest the futility of their lifelong high morals and secularist viewpoints.
The book focuses on how communalism pushed by political agendas causes people to abandon the places they have been rooted for generations. Its gut wrenching to read the charachters in the book getting chipped away from their idealist principles to finally scumb to despair, not just due to the fear for life, but also the hopelessness arising from the inability to digest the futility of their lifelong high morals and secularist viewpoints.