I Dont Agree With Those Who Think

I Was Well Acquainted With The Calcutta Literary Circle Since I Was 17, When I Lived In Bangladesh And Published And Edited A Little Magazine Called 'sejuti,' For Which Young Poets From Both Bengals Wrote. If You Look At My Life, There Is No Question Of Using Anyone For Anything. I Have Only Got Banned, Blacklisted And Banished.

Koranic Teaching Still Insists That The Sun Moves Around The Earth. How Can We Advance When They Teach Things Like That?

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.

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.

I Dont Agree With Those Who Think That The Conflict Is Simply Between Two Religions, Namely Christianity And Islam... To Me, The Key Conflict Is Between Irrational Blind Faith And Rational, Logical Minds.