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I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
Taslima Nasrin
Freedom
Offended
Believe
Everyone
Absolute
Absolute Freedom
Freedom Of Expression
Offend
Expression
Right
I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's okay. You can't control that. You can't change that.
Hasan M. Elahi
You
Change
People
Control
Meet
Okay
Pretty
Fact
Accepted
Going
Much
Ignorant
Ignorant People
Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.
Sheikh Hasina
Life
Friendship
Good
My Life
Relations
Neighbours
Pursue
Throughout
Maintenance
Policy
None
Malice
The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.
Hasan M. Elahi
God
Our
Concept
Camera
Surveillance
Ingrained
Original
Beings
I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
Taslima Nasrin
Education
Family
Class
Mother
Father
Physician
Sister
Liberal
Liberal Education
Muslim
Born
Brothers
Colleges
Small
Part
Small Town
Town
Qualified
Schools
Housewife
Bangladesh
Northern
Middle
Middle Class
Them
Elder
Younger
Younger Sister
Received
Two
When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
Taslima Nasrin
Life
Truth
Commitment
Writing
Fear
My Life
Past
Pay
Live
Consequences
Way
More
Write
Allow
Writing Process
Am
In The Past
Process
Interfere
Paid
Prepared
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
Taslima Nasrin
Freedom
Democracy
Rights
Women
Human Rights
Those
Religions
Freedom Of Expression
Also
Oppressive
Women Are
Human
Against
Expression
In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
Taslima Nasrin
Women
Mind
Men
Long
Motherhood
Controlling
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Fabricated
Chastity
Like
Concepts
Traditional
Been
Years
Legacy
Victims
Body
Notions
Societies
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.
Taslima Nasrin
Life
Achievement
Woman
Consider
Collected
Writer
Highest
Fallen
Hitherto
Title
Awards
Among
We're all creating an archive of our own lives, whether we're aware of it or not.
Hasan M. Elahi
Own
Our
Whether
Creating
Aware
Lives
It's really weird watching the government watch me.
Hasan M. Elahi
Government
Me
Weird
Really
Watch
Watching
How do you manage your online identity? It's something I talk about with my students all the time.
Hasan M. Elahi
Time
You
About
Something
Online
Students
Talk
Identity
How
Manage
Your
We don't know what the next generation of art is going to look like. We're kind of making it up as we go along. Not unlike the tech industry.
Hasan M. Elahi
Art
Generation
Unlike
Kind
Along
Like
Know
Look
Industry
Making
Go
Up
Going
Next
Next Generation
Tech
To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.
Hasan M. Elahi
Day
Nervous
Country
Own
Back
My Own
Coming
Very
Get
I'm convinced that if we don't define ourselves, other people will do it for us, and inaccurately.
Hasan M. Elahi
People
Will
Other
Define
Ourselves
Us
Convinced
Despite the barrage of information about me that is publicly available, I live a surprisingly private and anonymous life.
Hasan M. Elahi
Life
Me
Live
Despite
About
Anonymous
Private
Surprisingly
Information
Available
Publicly
I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'
Hasan M. Elahi
Work
Me
You
People
Medium
Say
Tell
Kind
Look
Artist
Just
Paint
When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.
Iqbal Quadir
Corruption
People
Extremists
Easier
Results
Recruitment
Leaders
Longer
Becomes
Beholden
Them
Elected
Who
During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
Iqbal Quadir
War
Buy
Loyalty
Money
Progress
Political
Aid
Cold
Cold War
Allegiance
Economic
Lead
Studies
Countries
Instituted
Policy
Does
Foreign
Governments
Sending
While
Poor
Poor Countries
Creates
Show
A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
Iqbal Quadir
Government
Military
Anathema
Tribes
Hierarchy
Diverse
Afghanistan
Population
The rapid proliferation of cell phones in Afghanistan proves that anything that adds value to people's lives spreads like brushfire - and commerce is certainly a force that could add value for Afghanis.
Iqbal Quadir
Phones
People
Value
Cell Phones
Add
Adds
Proliferation
Rapid
Could
Like
Force
Spreads
Proves
Commerce
Cell
Afghanistan
Anything
Certainly
Lives
Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?
Khaleda Zia
Country
Know
Arms
Does
Any
Illegal
Number
The bombers were enemies of Islam and enemies of the country. We will do everything and anything needed to stop them.
Khaleda Zia
Enemies
Will
Country
Islam
Everything
Were
Stop
Anything
Them
Bombers
Needed
My objective is to fulfil the dream of Bangabandhu through building a hunger- and poverty-free Golden Bangladesh being imbued with the spirit of the War of Liberation.
Sheikh Hasina
War
Building
Liberation
Hunger
Dream
Spirit
Objective
Through
Bangladesh
Being
Golden
Fulfil
After the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971, primary education was made free. We are now thinking to make education in the public sector free up to graduation level. We are also thinking of providing a light meal at primary and secondary schools in order to increase the student retention level.
Sheikh Hasina
Education
Light
Made
Free
Meal
Thinking
Increase
Secondary
Liberation
Sector
Student
Retention
Primary
Also
Schools
Make
Providing
Up
Bangladesh
Graduation
Order
After
Public
Public Sector
Now
Level
It is impossible for Bangladesh alone to take action against the rising sea level, as it has been a cumulative effect of global emission in which Bangladesh does not have any role. It is the responsibility of global community to address this issue as urgently as possible.
Sheikh Hasina
Alone
Impossible
Responsibility
Community
Action
Address
Possible
Has-Been
Rising
Emission
Take
Global
Does
Issue
Been
Effect
Cumulative
Role
Bangladesh
Any
Which
Against
Urgently
Sea
Level
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