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Split a Life
Author is known for her powerful writing on womens rights and uncompromising criticism of religious fundamentalism. This defiance on her part led to the ban on the Bengali original of this book by the Left Front in West Bengal as well as the Government of Bangladesh in 2003. Although the West Bengal government lifted the injunction after the ban was struck down by the Calcutta High Court in 2005, the author was eventually driven out of Kolkata and forced to expunge passages from the book, besides facing a four-million-dollar defamation lawsuit. Bold and evocative, this book opens a window to the experiences and works of one of the bravest writers of our times.
