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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

- Taslima Nasrin
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.

I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.

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.

I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.

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.

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.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

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All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.