Thrissur: Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin wants to abolish the religious law discriminating women. "Women in all communities including Muslims need to be given gender equality. Men would benefit more (from it). I had to move out of Bangladesh as I came in the open for equality," she said at the launch of the English translation of her book Exile at the Green Books here on Saturday. She further said that she always dreamed about a society in which women were considered not as an object of sexuality and machines for reproduction. "I don't know (if) such a change (would happen) while I am alive," she said.
She also said that though the Left parties were known for their secular views, she had to move out of Kolkata due to fundamentalist attacks. "India is my second home, and I hope there will not be any more threats for me to leave India," she said. Madampu Kunjukuttan released the book at the function. Ms Nasrin was deported from Bangladesh nearly two decades ago following the publication of Lajja (Shame) written on the backdrop of attacks on Hindu minorities in Bangladesh by Islamic fundamentalists after the demolition of Babri Masjid in 1992.
