The Duttas - Sudhamoy, Kironmoyee, and their two children, Suranjan and Maya - have lived in Bangladesh all their lives. Despite being part of the ...
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Jun 04, 2011
Nanny
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Sebelum membaca buku ini aku sudah baca beberapa reviewnya, jadi sudah dapat memperkirakan isinya, tapi tetap masih penasaran untuk membacanya. Beruntung dapat pinjaman dari Nurul.
Lajja (dalam bahasa Bangladesh berarti malu) ,novel fiksi yang bersumber dari fakta yang nyata tentang 13 hari kehidupan keluarga Sudhamoy di Bangladesh yang penuh teror dan ketakutan.
Bangladesh adalah Negara pecahan dari Pakistan, tepatnya di Pakistan sebelah timur. Bangladesh berdiri pada th More...
Lajja (dalam bahasa Bangladesh berarti malu) ,novel fiksi yang bersumber dari fakta yang nyata tentang 13 hari kehidupan keluarga Sudhamoy di Bangladesh yang penuh teror dan ketakutan.
Bangladesh adalah Negara pecahan dari Pakistan, tepatnya di Pakistan sebelah timur. Bangladesh berdiri pada th More...
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Aug 02, 2011
"Lajja" by Taslima Nasrin was a strange book. Both the front and the back cover have pictures of women on them. I presumed it had something to do with the effect of communal violence on women in Bangladesh. I was off by a mile.
This book deals with the effect of the Babri Masjid demolition on Bangladesh and it's people. Bangladesh was a Muslim dominated, yet secular society. But, according to the 8th Amendment, it ceased to be one. The state religion became Islam. The Muslims, infuriate More...
This book deals with the effect of the Babri Masjid demolition on Bangladesh and it's people. Bangladesh was a Muslim dominated, yet secular society. But, according to the 8th Amendment, it ceased to be one. The state religion became Islam. The Muslims, infuriate More...
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Dec 20, 2011
Saurabh
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Lajja one of the most controversial books in recent times is a touching and poignant account of a family that is ripped apart by riots and clashes between religious groups. The story based in Bangladesh, traces how an innocent,peaceful and patriotic Hindu family living in Bangladesh finds itself becoming an alien and an enemy in its homeland. It is a touching story about erosion of faith and belief and the gradual corruption of innocence.
Lajja shows how atrocities commited in religious More...
Lajja shows how atrocities commited in religious More...
Jul 30, 2011
its a brave attempt to highlight an unreported event, the pesecution of minorities in ebngaldesha nd pakistan. howver the novels a coherent sense of direction, the endless list of rapes.looting etc may be done to create a nauseating seqence of terrible evnts but it only erodes the essence of the text as a novel, a story to be told into at times a rant on religious extermisim. i think that they author is very skilled and perhaps she could have used the characters to tell the story, to bring more
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Jan 08, 2011
Prateek
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The book presents story of a hindu family living in Bangladesh/East Pakistan in 1992 when Babri Masjid riots were going on in India. The book tells the story of Dutta family which loves Bangladesh, even though they see clear discrimination, violence and hatred for Hindus. The nation of Bangladesh was created for people who called themselves as 'Bangla', but slowly a movement started which converted Bangladesh to an Islamic country. The vision of the nation was to be a secular country, but it end
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May 26, 2009
Nurul
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dapet dari acara book swap GRI di WBD
Suranjan ingin menjadi seekor kucing. Karena kucing memiliki identitas bersama. Kucing garong di pasar, kucing yang singgah dan tidur di teras, semuanya barangkali punya hak yang sama akan tulang ikan yang terserak di tempat sampah. Hanya manusia yang punya ras dan kelompok.
Masjid Babri di Ayodhya, India. Didirikan oleh Mughal pertama, Babur, pada abad ke 16. Tempat ini sendiri dianggap sebagai tempat lahirnya Rama bagi umat Hindu. More...
Suranjan ingin menjadi seekor kucing. Karena kucing memiliki identitas bersama. Kucing garong di pasar, kucing yang singgah dan tidur di teras, semuanya barangkali punya hak yang sama akan tulang ikan yang terserak di tempat sampah. Hanya manusia yang punya ras dan kelompok.
Masjid Babri di Ayodhya, India. Didirikan oleh Mughal pertama, Babur, pada abad ke 16. Tempat ini sendiri dianggap sebagai tempat lahirnya Rama bagi umat Hindu. More...
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Jul 09, 2008
Sumitha
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It is a heart rending tale of Muslim fundamentalists wreaking havoc on the Hindus of Bangladesh. The story is weaved around a Bengali Hindu family of four members, Sudhamoy, Kironmoyee, Maya, Suranjan, who were forced to leave their land and take refuge in India as circumstances in Bangladesh did not allow them to live in peace there.
Brings you face-to-face with the evil consequences of communal violence.
Brings you face-to-face with the evil consequences of communal violence.
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Mar 06, 2011
Amalie
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This was a novel I had been wanting to read for a long time but never had enough guts to do so. This is a highly sensitive novel and some areas are really difficult to read because there are terribly horrifying. Lajja means shame, is a response to anti-Hindu riots which erupted in parts of Bangladesh, soon after the demolition of Babri Masjid in India on 6 December 1992. The book subtly indicates that communal feelings were on the rise, the Hindu minority of Bangladesh was not fairly treated, an
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Oct 09, 2011
Binit
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This book is informative but not engrossing or entertaining. Though the book is a historical fiction, it fails to strike an appropriate balance between history and fiction. It is overly tilted to the history front. It lacks creativity and is full of historical facts. The book didn't live upto my expectation, let alone surpass it. Perhaps, it's because I had expected so much from this book. I'd also like to appreciate the writer of this book who forsake her medical line and went on to write audac
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Feb 12, 2012
Upneet
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The title which has attained a cult status over time is probably because of the time it came out at. With no other source of such precise and elaborate information one understands why this book garnered such praises. Audacious it is. But nothing more. The book teeters precariously between a wikipedia page and a novel, so much is it overloaded with facts and data. It simply fails to connect with the reader.
The odd bullet points interspersed through the novel are nothing but awkward. They add More...
The odd bullet points interspersed through the novel are nothing but awkward. They add More...
May 19, 2009
Endah
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Mulai kini biarlah rumah ibadah menjadi akademi seni, sekolah seni rupa, balai diskusi sains. Biarlah tempat-tempat pemujaan menjadi sawah ladang bermandi cahaya matahari, sungai biru yang mengalir, dan samudra liar yang tak pernah diam. Biarlah agama berganti nama menjadi kemanusiaan" (hal 254)
Ketika membaca fatwa Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) beberapa waktu lalu yang mengharamkan pluralisme dalam hubungannya menyikapi kelompok aliran Islam Ahmadiyah , saya tertegun. Apakah p More...
Ketika membaca fatwa Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) beberapa waktu lalu yang mengharamkan pluralisme dalam hubungannya menyikapi kelompok aliran Islam Ahmadiyah , saya tertegun. Apakah p More...
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Jul 14, 2008
Ririenz
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Membaca novel ini bikin capek hati... Sebenarnya Lajja adalah novel fiksi ttp fakta2 nyata yg diungkapkan oleh Taslima Nasreen ttg negerinya sangat mengerikan.Tidak heran bila Taslima Nasreen, si empunya karya ini mendapat kecaman yg sangat keras dari pemerintah Bangladesh dan dianggap sbg pengkhianat bangsa sehingga dia harus meminta suaka dari negara lain.
Lajja dalam bahasa Bangladesh berarti malu, dan kalimat yg menjadi kuncinya adalah " Biarlah agama berganti nama menjadi ke More...
Lajja dalam bahasa Bangladesh berarti malu, dan kalimat yg menjadi kuncinya adalah " Biarlah agama berganti nama menjadi ke More...
Jan 13, 2008
Abeer
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This book needed editing, desperately. It's not that she's not a good writer, or doesn't have something urgently important to say. She is/does on both counts. But the plot is swallowed by bullet point lists of news items counting out brutality after brutality against the Hindus in Bangladesh, which after a page or two, I don't know how many people can absorb that usefully or progressively. I read it by rote, page after page, sort of like how one might read a Holocaust ledger or the Twin Towe
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Apr 05, 2008
Pera
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Novel ini lebih tepat adalah kumpulan berita yang di ceritakan oleh tokoh ceritanya.
Ditulis berdasarkan kisah nyata.
Mengisahkan tentang tragedi akibat fanatisme agama di Bangladesh. Tragedi yang dipicu dari pembakaran mesjid Babri di Ayodya pada 6 desember 1992 di India oleh umat hindu.
Umat Islam di Bangladesh, melakukan pembalasan ke umat hindu di negaranya. Rumah ibadah hindu di bakar. Tanah dan harta di rampas dan perempuan-perempuannya di perkosa. Dan terjadilah mig More...
Ditulis berdasarkan kisah nyata.
Mengisahkan tentang tragedi akibat fanatisme agama di Bangladesh. Tragedi yang dipicu dari pembakaran mesjid Babri di Ayodya pada 6 desember 1992 di India oleh umat hindu.
Umat Islam di Bangladesh, melakukan pembalasan ke umat hindu di negaranya. Rumah ibadah hindu di bakar. Tanah dan harta di rampas dan perempuan-perempuannya di perkosa. Dan terjadilah mig More...
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Jun 02, 2010
Meaghan
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Whatever this book may be as a sociopolitical statement, it makes a remarkably poor novel. I basically skimmed through it after 50 pages or so. All the characters talked like newspapers. The story should have been suspenseful, especially after Maya's abduction, but I couldn't bring myself to care about either the fate of the Dutta family or the Hindu/Muslim problem at large. Frankly, I was bored stiff by this book. Maybe I am just not the right audience.
Nov 20, 2008
Prasanth
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Perhaps one could say that the reality related by the author does seem stunning/disturbing. It does infact strike as rather inhuman.
But as a book, I do not really feel the work has any purpose other than find a means to explain the exact happenings of the time. In fact, at times, I had felt many parts of the book may be 'copy pasted' from any newspaper or some records. I believe while trying to explain a fact through fiction, there has to be a better way to bring it out, embedding the for More...
But as a book, I do not really feel the work has any purpose other than find a means to explain the exact happenings of the time. In fact, at times, I had felt many parts of the book may be 'copy pasted' from any newspaper or some records. I believe while trying to explain a fact through fiction, there has to be a better way to bring it out, embedding the for More...
Oct 22, 2010
Nihar
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it was pretty good.it took me to the world where there would be no religion ,no racism ,no gender inequality,no discrimination between human beings.i felt that religion is nothing but a dividing factor so .if we want peace we should simply erase the term religion from our dictionary.at last i've to say that the world is still alive due to the people like tasalima.so thanx to her.
Oct 14, 2009
Kristi
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The true shame is found in the fact that this vitally important topic is lost in the pedantic, repetitive recitation of the horrors inflicted upon the Hindu Bangladeshi by Muslims – pages and pages and pages of the stuff. After a while, the brain glazes over and refuses to absorb any more. It’s so sad that the message is lost, and so unnecessary. I read the book cover to cover, hoping that there would be some redeeming factor, but what little story there was appeared to be merely an excuse to lo
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Aug 19, 2011
Yogesh
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Taslima is a Bangladeshi writer. Overall the social level in Bangladesh is still Orthodox. Taslima tried to pour her mind in that novel & I feel she succeeded. She tried to show the worse condition of minorities i.e. Hindus in Bangladesh in this book through the story of Bengali Hindu Family. Her novel depicts the social structure of Bangladesh. Good Book
Feb 18, 2010
Sean
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Quite interesting. I find many books to be scantily populated with historical information, this book is good with history. Good as allegory. Good as illuminating device.
Nasrin is often characterized as the Salman Rushdie of Bangladesh. After this book came fatwa(s?)... Yet it made me think.
Nasrin is often characterized as the Salman Rushdie of Bangladesh. After this book came fatwa(s?)... Yet it made me think.
Mar 24, 2011
Sajid
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Awefully, Awsome..... Brutal Truth..... I could not derive logic from the hue and cry about the content of the book from so called "Islamic Scholars and Followers". Mob behaviour has nothing to do about religion. Its about being on other side.
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Dec 13, 2010
Avtar
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A good fiction that takes you to the time of pre and post liberated bangladesh and the social situation prevailing there. Its a book relating to a small knit Hindu family , there thoughts and principles and sadly having a gory ending.
Aug 01, 2008
Ratheesh
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This book has lot of details. infact the author herself has done her researches to the fullest. but when it comes to story telling this is a disappointing fare. because the flow of the story is interuppted by the mere display of how much the author knows the details. at the very onset of the process of the listing the crimes committed by the muslims towards hindus the readers are shocked by the details. but later the proceedings are repeated to that extend that eventually the reader gets t More...
Nov 27, 2011
Tylerdurden
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The story is good but the writing is not. For every five pages, the author gives a 2 page report about the riots. The first two or three reports have the effect on the reader but after a while it becomes boring and tiresome to read them. After a while even the characters start reporting in the conversations. But the guts to write such a book which questions the religious values in general and oppression in the Islamic countries are very rare to be found. Also the author provides the much needed
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Jul 16, 2010
Abhilash
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A pretty ordinary work by an equally ordinary writer. the book would evoke nothing but a cold shoulder except for the controversy it created
May 05, 2010
Ruchi
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Brilliant!! Thought Provikng!! Manages to disgust you and show the naked reality of the issues faced by women in the Taliban regime!!
May 14, 2010
Surin
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If you are a hindu, you better avoid reading this book. So you can remain a secularist.
