Shame
Published on 5. July 2024
277 pages
978-7-89519-764-0 (ISBN)
Description
The novel "Shame" by the writer Taslima Nasreen is a novel that caused a huge uproar when it was published. It was also subjected to a barrage of criticism, and it turned into a waste of their blood by an extremist group, which put the writer on their blacklist, a waste of their blood.
The novel consists of thirteen chapters, titled as follows: The First Day, The Second Day,......The Thirteenth Day. The novel begins with a real incident that occurred in India on December 7, 1992, where a Hindu extremist group worked to demolish an old mosque, whose construction dates back five centuries ago, under the pretext that the mosque is the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama.
The events of the novel revolve around the repercussions of this incident that sparked a sectarian war between Muslims and Hindus in India and Bangladesh. The author conveys to us the effects of this sectarian strife on the life of a Bangladeshi Hindu family consisting of: the head of the family, Sudhamoy, the mother, Kironmoy, the son, Suranjan, and his sister, Nilanjan. The Sudhamoy family is living in a state of panic and anxiety for fear of being subjected to retaliation from Islamic extremists. Sister Nilanjan insists on her brother to provide them with a shelter in which to hide until the storm of revenge launched by the Muslim majority in Bangladesh against the Hindu minority subsides. Her brother Suranjan does not move a muscle, and the father also refuses. Leaving Bangladesh for India, as many Bengali Hindus did... Nilanjan shouted at them: "You can stay until you rot here, but I will go." When her father asked her, "And what will you do in your name? Nilanjana." She immediately answered him, "There is no god but God. He is all." What you need to say in order to become a Muslim. I will change my name to Fayrouz. Nilanjan hides temporarily with her Muslim friend, and through the characters of the father, Sudhamoy, and the son, Suranjan, we see the racial discrimination that the Hindu community in Bangladesh suffers from. The father had refused to immigrate to India after Bangladesh's independence from Bangladesh. India, and he preferred to remain in his native country, Bangladesh, for everyone, regardless of their sects, but he paid a heavy price for that. In 1971, his friends were killed in front of him because they were Hindus, and he and his family members were forced to hide and disguise themselves under Islamic names, he under the name "Abdul Salam" and his wife, Kironmoy, under the name "Fatima." When they discover that he is a Hindu, they brutally circumcise him.
The novel consists of thirteen chapters, titled as follows: The First Day, The Second Day,......The Thirteenth Day. The novel begins with a real incident that occurred in India on December 7, 1992, where a Hindu extremist group worked to demolish an old mosque, whose construction dates back five centuries ago, under the pretext that the mosque is the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama.
The events of the novel revolve around the repercussions of this incident that sparked a sectarian war between Muslims and Hindus in India and Bangladesh. The author conveys to us the effects of this sectarian strife on the life of a Bangladeshi Hindu family consisting of: the head of the family, Sudhamoy, the mother, Kironmoy, the son, Suranjan, and his sister, Nilanjan. The Sudhamoy family is living in a state of panic and anxiety for fear of being subjected to retaliation from Islamic extremists. Sister Nilanjan insists on her brother to provide them with a shelter in which to hide until the storm of revenge launched by the Muslim majority in Bangladesh against the Hindu minority subsides. Her brother Suranjan does not move a muscle, and the father also refuses. Leaving Bangladesh for India, as many Bengali Hindus did... Nilanjan shouted at them: "You can stay until you rot here, but I will go." When her father asked her, "And what will you do in your name? Nilanjana." She immediately answered him, "There is no god but God. He is all." What you need to say in order to become a Muslim. I will change my name to Fayrouz. Nilanjan hides temporarily with her Muslim friend, and through the characters of the father, Sudhamoy, and the son, Suranjan, we see the racial discrimination that the Hindu community in Bangladesh suffers from. The father had refused to immigrate to India after Bangladesh's independence from Bangladesh. India, and he preferred to remain in his native country, Bangladesh, for everyone, regardless of their sects, but he paid a heavy price for that. In 1971, his friends were killed in front of him because they were Hindus, and he and his family members were forced to hide and disguise themselves under Islamic names, he under the name "Abdul Salam" and his wife, Kironmoy, under the name "Fatima." When they discover that he is a Hindu, they brutally circumcise him.
