Meena Kumari

Michelle Yeoh

Who says that love can be only represented in the physical form? I mean making physical love is all about loving. This is perhaps a very wrong notion and let me correct you by saying that sometimes it is the appreciation, empathy or support which we receive from others also represent a very pious and purist form of love, which may not tangible but at the same time felt strongly by heart.

Since she has lived the substantial portion of her lifetime in the Bangladesh so she has actually seen, sometimes heard and read how women in the control of men have been labeled as debauched, if she has been raped by the enforcer of the law, and state machinery also fails to take the appropriate action against the perpetrators of crime. This has moved her to write so that the plight of these women whose voices remains unheard can be brought in front of the society and a positive change may be in the form of adoption of uniform civil code by the society for the atrocities committed on women.  

The mal treatment of women is not only common in Bangladesh, but even women of South Asia are not unscathed towards violence and vulnerable to all type of abuses even in the realm of the four walls of their so called safe home. However, women not even safe in the western world where it is being considered that women are having equal rights and free to live as per there own wishes. 

Taslima has been writing to bring forth all kinds of trials and tribulation being faced by women in her country. Although nobody told her to think on these issues but she thought over it, cried softly in lonely places for the suffering of these women. She was very deeply moved by regular reading of such gory and barbarous crimes against women. A patriarchy system where there’s so much of suffering and she can’t sit quite and enjoy life in her own world. In her speech while accepting the UNESCO prize for tolerance and non violence it has been said by her that she has been force to live in exile because she has raised her voice against the injustice against women.   

In her own words the practice of the religion should be banned as it is a great oppressor. Religious law’s is the main culprit in the strengthening of the patriarchal tradition in Bangladesh. Women suffer not only physically but psychologically. Women are enclosed in home so as to remain busy in household works, giving birth to child and rearing them. They should take care of home and make happy the male members of the family. There has been massive malnutrition amongst the women and often when they are terminally ill they are taken to hospital for giving the treatment.

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