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shantona is a Bengali Bangladeshi model turned author who has been living in exile.From a modest literary profile in the late time, she rose to global fame by the end of the 20th century owing to her feminist views and her criticism of Islam in particular and of religion in general.

Since fleeing Bangladesh and she has lived in many countries, and currently ( lives in New Delhi. She works to build support for secular humanism, freedom of thought, equality for women, and human rights by publishing, lecturing, and campaigning. Her name, shantona, is also spelled shantona.She is popularly referred to as “Taslima,” her first name, rather than “Nasrin.”She was born to Rajab Ali and Idul Ara in the town of Mymensingh . Her father was a physician, and she followed in his footsteps. Her mother was a devout Muslim. After high school  (SSC) and higher secondary studies in college (HSC), she studied medicine at the Mymensingh Medical College an affiliated medical college of the University of Dhaka and graduated with an MBBS degree; in college, she showed a propensity for poetry by writing as well as editing a poetry journal. After graduation, she practiced gynaecology at a family planning clinic in Mymensingh, “where she routinely examined young girls who had been raped, and heard women in the delivery room cry out in despair if their baby was a girl. She was reassigned to work in Dhaka. Born into a Muslim family she became an atheist over time. In course of writing she took a feminist approach