Ticket to Exile: A Memoir
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Most Popular Most Read. Today Tomorrow This Weekend. Arts Slideshows 52 slides. In most of the book, she argues why she doesn't think any riot can break out because of her, when one does break out she blames that publisher infringed copyright. Most of the time, she is bashing the entourage of police which is with her, but then in case police security is missing, she is quick to point out that as UN signatory India must be obliged to provide her personal security.
She bashes her own friend for enjoying hospitality of Indian govt. On one hand, she claims that Indian government is tormenting her, on other hand she claims that the govt is spending extravagantly on her friend to make her happy! She accepts Swedish citizenship, but claims she 'doesn't look like Swede' and hence Sweden cannot be her country!
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Should we start deciding rights of residence and citizenship based on how a person look? Most of whole, while her book is an account of her misery, she herself clearly sounds apathetic to misery of her friend. A journey that I have had earlier through the books she had written, through the conversations with my mother, friends, family, and newspapers.
Through the time when Maa used to read out passages from her books to me in Bengali. A journey that being a Bengali and living a safe life in Kolkata, I could only know through what people told me. As I was a few pages down the book, I fell for the way she writes. Simple, out spoken, up front with whatever she feels, Taslima Nasrin might just be one narrator that touches your heart.
The one thing that this book teaches you as a person, as a reader is Patience. Trust me when I say that there are parts in the book where you would feel like judging the authoress, because those are the parts where the person inside you rises above the reader inside you. But then on the other hand, you would also have places where you would feel like not leaving the book because of the captivating narration being done.
Being a Bengali, I know if not personally all those people mentioned in this memoir. When I say that this book needs patience, what I mean is that this book is a perfect example of learning how to judge, yet not judge; how to understand, yet not understand; how to read. Taslima Nasrin in this brutally honest memoir lists everything in vivid detail as it was since her exile.
Her author biography says that she has been in exile since We all have heard about people being in exile. But this book tells us what it actually feels being in an exile.
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People might not understand a few things or a few decisions taken by Nasrin but that is exactly what it is. The underlying conflict, the emotions and the turmoil that she goes through. There were many heart touching parts of the book but what caught me was her part in the safe house when she mentions that there were a bed of ants that made her bed a makeshift house, crawling in and out but none bit her even once.
It was, she felt, that they had accepted her more than the world could ever have. Probably, a person not from Kolkata would be the best person to talk about the book but being a girl from Kolkata, how could I not? Ever since I have been reading the book I have been having discussions with friends. Why, if you ask? Because wherever she is, I want her to be safe and I support the rights of literature. The poems that are there in the book touch you and so do the excerpts of the diary.
You might not support things that happened and there are possibilities that you will not get the answers to your questions through the book but being a reader, or above all, being a person, this memoir is a detail into the mind and surroundings of a writer, who was exiled for an indefinite time because she wrote, you should read.
Having read quite a few memoirs, I expected a bit more material to it. Rating this book would be tough because there are many points that as a person I could not agree to but keeping me as a person aside, as a reader, this book is 4. It is more glum and sedate mainly filled with diary style entries of her anguish and disbelief at the way she was being treated. She starts off with how she landed in India, all high hopes and happiness, filled with expectation at being welcomed back and at how Kolkata would feel again. One of her books gets translated into Telugu and the organisers ask her to come to Hyderabad for the event.
After many refusals she finally accepts and this is what leads to the whole disaster. A mob rushes in, threats of riots ensue and Nasrin, the centre figure in all of this, is blamed for pointing out what she believes are the negatives in Islam despite not having even mentioned the word Islam or Religion in her speech there.
While it starts on a darkly interesting note, in the middle it gets a bit muddled up in self pity The conversation between Taslima and the then Commissioner of Police induces lot humor, and you will laugh when his sole motivation is to get Taslima out of Kolkata comes out through words like "Go to Europe, Go to America, Go to Kerala". When I say that this book needs patience, what I mean is that this book is a perfect example of learning how to judge, yet not judge; how to understand, yet not understand; how to read. At his high school, he graduated with honors, and he was invited to give the commencement address. She was a Bengali living on the other side of Bengal, which eventually she calls her second home. Exile, talks about her life in India after returning from abroad, where she spent most of her life after going away from Bangladesh.
Now none of these are spoilers because these were largely publicised events. Right from segments by Barkha Dutt and other supposedly supportive journalists to everyone completely ignoring her, these events surprise her and throw her under the bus till she finally succumbs and leaves the country which, she still cannot believe that people want of her. But I will tell you what to expect from this book. There is nothing riveting or earth shattering about it. No revelations or information that was previously unknown. These are simply the jottings of a woman who is under a tremendous amount of pressure and stress after being denied everything she loves.
Naturally, diary entries like this will not be a pleasure to read, they will be repetitive and desolate, with recurring thoughts and themes mentioned in every entry. This book will leave you a little touchy, as I was last night getting angry at every news article I came across and at everything people told me. So if you are easily affected please take note of that. On the one side there are no trigger warnings to be mentioned so you have nothing to worry about on that front. Whether you like her at the end of this or hate her at the end of this, you will be astounded at how strongly she stands by her beliefs and that made this a really interesting read.
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I was sent a copy in exchange for my honest review. Complete review can be found at https: The book may not have been written from a political perspective, but from the readers point of view it is one.
Brings to the fore the establishments inability to comprehend situations and making them out of controll. Also, without reading Dwikhandito, one cannot analyze the whole imbroglio which happened and are described here. Seems, the real people who were a part of the dwikhandito narrative collectively or unilaterally tried to utilize the fragmented political system and soft decision making The book may not have been written from a political perspective, but from the readers point of view it is one.
Seems, the real people who were a part of the dwikhandito narrative collectively or unilaterally tried to utilize the fragmented political system and soft decision making of the establishment to reap up the situation for the author. CPIM government even under its most credible face in WB was so subdued by the islamic fundamentalists is unnatural.
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Alas vote bank politics has its own ways. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Poignant because it speaks of her resilience, of her struggle which is not only against a patriarchal society but an increasingly intolerant, jingoistic, communal and violent mob which has been off late taking up the political space in all our lives.
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When one is reading through, it is easy to see that the flow of the writing and of telling the story of her exile, has several pauses, each pause perhaps her own moment of reflection. The book has a series of diary entries which talk about her growing ennui with what is happening, but wistful of a life she wish she had.
From talking about the political state of the country, to her anger towards religious extremism that forced such a life on her, there are deep moments of loneliness which perhaps most of us can relate to.
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In one entry she talks about a lizard falling on her head and how it stays there content in the darkness that surrounds it, to a page where she lovingly talks about her cat Minu, who waits for her in her Kolkata home. The book talks in detail about the politics of censorship, of women writers who speak openly about themselves being shamed, of what it is to want to belong to country, where acceptance continues to evade one in the most subtlest of ways.
The book is a powerful account of an individual, a writer, a female, who has been let down by the powers that be. The book is a commentary on how vote bank politics trumps basic human rights. The book is a testimony to the humongous and nearly unlimited State power. The book is a note of how personal relations, friendships, acquaintances fail to stand up in times of adversity.
The outright disgusting part of the book is where she describes her exile of nearly 8 months in various safe houses of Delhi. Stripping a human being of basic freedom of meeting people, availing medical facilities, going about a normal life is a gross violation of human rights and Ms Nasrin was subject to that. She has provided a disturbing account of how due to lack of medical help her blood pressure situation got worse and which eventually led her to bite the bitter pill and leave India.
The literary prowess of Taslima Nasrin has been done justice to in English it can be safely said. The narration is gripping, fast moving and accommodates literary flourish along with some lovely poetry in vast sections. There could have been more clarity on the timeline of events in general. The book is a highly recommended one for those who would like to learn more about Taslima Nasrin, her love for India, her fight against religious fundamentalism, the coercion of the State, machinations of governments, and much more. Whether one considers Taslima Nasrin a literary icon or not, one cannot deny that her life has been nothing short of phenomenal.
She never shied away from speaking her mind or expressing her opinions on religion or society. It is filled with nostalgia and rem Whether one considers Taslima Nasrin a literary icon or not, one cannot deny that her life has been nothing short of phenomenal. It is filled with nostalgia and remains of her childhood while contrasting with the gory details of her encounters with death mob attacks, verbal attacks, bans.
One thing that this woman holds the promise of is honesty and blatant truth. And her words live up to that legacy. There was an accident near his grandmother's farm: A group of white boys who had been drinking ran over him. They said it was dark and they didn't see him, 'black as he was. The white schools in Orangeburg were well-equipped while his own had no science laboratory, no lawn, and he and other blacks were forced to contribute books from their own collections to build the school library.
One might want to compare this one to Black Boy by Richard Wright it came out in , was the first book , for many Americans, to demonstrate the implicit and explicit cruelty of segregation. Both books are studied and measured at once tragic and exhilarating: Wright took himself north because of his readings; Miller was forced into exile because of writing a single, short note of longing for friendship.