Two bangladeshi women
2003- Bangladesh Taslima Nasrin's book "Amar meyebela" was released. I came across that book in 2017. Till then Taslima for me was only a writer who gave controversial statements about religion to gain attention. But when I read that book I realised how courageous she was to go against her own people to point out to the world what wrong was happening in Bangladesh. My respect for her increased as I came to know she was also a physician who held an MBBS degree and how she faced struggles as a lady doctor. Her thoughts written in 2003 still felt valid in 2017 some of them even relevant to Indian conditions. As a result of her courageous writings she faced several threats. Her own family abandoned her. She was attacked by religious extremists. As a result she fled her own country and lived in exile in several European countries. She is currently living in India April 2018 -Bangladesh I was just scrolling through the internet when I came across a news "19 yr old