1. 1996: Taslima Nasrin by Mike Reed

    So which idea is strongest? That in ink,
    Set naked on the page, and unafraid?
    Or that which howls at people not to think,
    And for its proof shows gun and stone and blade?

    Taslima – cursed, God’s warrant on her head –
    Lives out the answer; says what must be said.




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