From Mauritania to Bangladesh, 80 million infant girls are sexually mutilated annually. But the United Nations has never made any declaration of condemnation against these countries. This is what is depicted in Lajja, Maya and Kironmoyee has no self identification, they are waiting for their male counter parts to make decision for them. Thus making Suranjan and Sudhamoy appear equal to God, their savoir. Taslima disquieting expressed her visitation in the speech at UNESCO headquarters in Paris .Why it so happens that women in south east countries cannot read and write. The religious and the patriarchal system of the society is the reason for them being leading a life of misery and dependency. Taslima Nasreen was asked to read Koran in Arabic which she did not understand .But she got hold of Bengali version of Koran which she found filled with many anti –feminist beliefs. It makes it clear that the religious texts are not the way to reach the eternal. Women are considered intellectually, morally, physically and psychologically inferior by religion, tradition, culture and customs. Some patriarch has framed the sentence for his own will . Some Parish or a Pundit or a Maulana has preached their believers to see God as Him but not Her.. "Humankind is facing an uncertain future. In particular, the conflict is between two different ideas, secularism and fundamentalism .It clearly means that the conflict is not with the religion or between the east and west .It is basically a dispute between modern, rational, logical thinking and irrational, blind faith. While some are trying to go ahead, some are still finding it difficult to shed their past. It makes one choose to lead life either with tradition or innovation. It is a reality of this world that women are subjected to survive by their own means and this survival counts many things in it. In this novel Taslima Nasreen has very carefully in one simple sentence given the in true melancholy.
All that the girl could think about was escape to some safe place.
The Cairo conference of September 1994 approved a resolution in the category of human rights which says that the human rights also applies to women. One can conclude from it that until now, women are not considered human. must define them as such and insist upon this in the face of countries whose legislation barely places women as the subjects of social or political rights, and where women are treated worse than animals. In Saudi Arabia, women are treated as worthless objects. After declaring his daughter defiled, a father has the right to strangle her in front of the family as an righteous disciplinary action. In the United Arab Emirates, adulterers are publicly stoned to death. The worst comes from the country of Egypt where polygamy was legalized and clitoridectomies are performed on thousands of young girls every year . Countries where women can inherit only half of the goods provided to their male counterparts, where they cannot demand a divorce, where they are never granted child custody, and where, in the ultimate horror, the male members of the family can kill them for any reason without ever being brought to justice.
As all know, these are countries governed by Islamic law where millions of women are compelled to live imprisoned in their own homes, subjected to polygamy, sexual mutilation, and torture -- disgraceful and inhuman treatment. But it is unthinkable that similar action would be taken against Islamic countries which treat women no better or worse than whites treated blacks in South Africa. Because of its racist laws, South Africa was banned by the International Olympic Committee from participating in its games but the same sanctions are not applied to countries which bar women from taking part in sports or send exclusively male delegations to the Olympics. Military regimes are routinely criticized for repression of their citizenry but the Spanish government does not apply the same treatment to Morocco and King Hassan II who is welcomed as a friend and a governing democrat. This double standard also holds true for Algeria, Mauritania, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait which are all considered democratic countries. Till, today the Muslim women have to wear purdah as a custom bestowed upon them by their religious ethics . Some women are fine by their wearing of purdah as they think it as their way of protecting their culture. Hover, they hardly come to the terms that instead of the purdah working as their means of culture it is a true nature of dominance.
Her Ustad , Mithun Dey would try to encourage her but Kironmoyee would sigh sadly and say, ‘No, Dada. I don’t like singing anymore .What is the point, when people say it is indecent to sing and dance?’
The novel talks about Kironmoyee who gives away her passion of singing as her husband Sudhamoy is questioned by his colleagues and relatives. He forced Kironmoyee to leave singing because it does not apply to his wife. The fact is constant as Kironmoyee is seen through the role of wife but not through the identity of an individual.
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