6 Most Controversial Books of All Time

Lajja:
Lajja is a well known novel in Bengali by Taslima Nasrin, a writer of Bangladesh. ‘Lajja’ means shame in Bengali and many other Indo-Aryan languages. The book certainly was surrounded in controversies. It was first published in 1993 in the Bengali language, and was subsequently banned in Bangladesh, and a few states of India. However, it sold 50,000 copies in the six months after its publication. Taslima escaped from her native Bangladesh after death threats from Islamic radicals. She dedicated the book "to the people of the Indian subcontinent", and began the text by saying, "let another name for religion be humanism." The book is a response of Nasrin to anti-Hindu riots which erupted in parts of Bangladesh, soon after the demolition of Babri Masjid in India in December 1992. The book finely indicates that communal feelings were on the rise, the Hindu minority of Bangladesh was not fairly treated, and secularism was under shadow.

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