I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder...
All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.
Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
Jonathan Swift: ‘We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is...
Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!