I really praise this women's courage. excerpts of the book and analysis: In the book "Ka", Taslima narrated in detail her sexual encounters with various personalities of Bangladesh's literary milieu and few other people. People who were known as "deity" to common people ten years ago has been depicted as "monsters" in her book. Taslima has issued character certificates for all these people in her book. She performed meticulous surgery on the characters of those so-called cultured members of the civil society - secular writers, poets, novelists, dramatists, essayists, journalists, et al. These people used to call themselves "intellectualists". They used to recite their humanistic poems in various programs. The nation is continuously given dossier of valuable lessons through the TV rendition of their stories and novels. But many people did not know their real character. Taslima gave the unique opportunity to the people of Bangladesh to get to know the true colour of those people who used to be adored by the countrymen as ideal citizens -- torch-bearers of peace & progress. Taslima discussed about her personal (literary & sex) life in the book. Six persons with whom she had pre and extra-marital sexual affairs were novelist Imdadul Haque Milon, Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (later her first husband), journalist Naimul Islam Khan (later her second husband), Mohammad Ali Minar aka Minar Mahmud (later her third husband and former Bichinta editor; currently living in the USA), poet Syed Hasmat Jalal (son of Calcatian litterateur Syed Mustafa Shiraj) and Kaiser (former Gazipur subdistrict chairman). Among the people who wanted to take her to bed were novelist Syed Shamsul Huq, poet Helal Hafiz, journalist Abu Hasan Shahriar, Mozammel Babu, publisher Khoka, et al. Taslima divulged the dark side of the lives of medical practitioners Shipra & Manu, Shipra & Harun, Neepa & Naheed, Farhad Mazhar & Farida Akhter, poet Shamsur Rahman & Oyshwaryashila (a married hindu housewife) and Mriganka (a 21-year old young hindu man) & Sharifa Khatun (a 58-year old woman). There is a group of people in our society who are engaged in promiscuous sexual acts. But they never acknowledge that due to fear of either rejection by the people around them or loosing respectful status in the society. But this is sheer hypocrisy. There is no dearth of hypocrite people in our society. Just as there are lot of hypocrite politicians so are hypocrite social workers. It's the same situation with the number of hypocrite beggars, yellow journalists and dishonest businessmen. But Taslima Nasrin is an exception to this. No matter what she is, she is at least not a hypocrite for the most part. She admitted openly whatever promiscuous things she did. It was expected of her admirers to speak highly of her. But it did not turn out to be that way this time. Because they are not as courageous as Taslima is. Their actions don't follow their words. Taslima had no hesitation to brand them as hypocrites even if many would find it hard to do so. Taslima made it clear that she had sexual encounters with many of these personalities. She was quite amazed to find their strong propensity to make love to her although Taslima herself is not a saint either. Caught red-handed, these so-called poets, litterateurs, novelists are now accusing Taslima of penning a pornographic book. Some are making scathing remarks such as "It's not true what Taslima said", "So what?", "It's not proper to say such things", "gone too far", "It does not matter what she said", "She lost her originally", "She has run out of gas but still doing stunts to remain in the limelight" etc. It is quite amusing that ten years ago, these same bunch of people stood beside Taslima to uphold her right to free speech and free lifestyle. The champions of these so-called libertine, womaniser, secularist, sham-intellectualist hypocrites now want to gag free speech. They went full steam to encourage her to make anti-Islamic and blasphemous remarks. But they are now at loggerheads with her now that she has brought into the fore the dark side of these so-called intellectualists. In the past, they wanted to use Taslima to garner their selfish interests and to speak against Muslims and Islam. Some of the personalities, whose names were mentioned in the book, admitted, "90% of what Taslima wrote are facts; 10% colour was added to give it a literary flavour." People who had sex with her did not directly deny Taslima's allegations. They merely avoided the issue. Taslima made it crystal clear, "After coming to know that I established sexual relationship with more than one man, many men stare at my body with lustful eyes as if my body is cheap and readily available to them." (Ka, p.266). Those who are able to read Bengali, please direct your browser to http://www.e-mela.com to read the original excerpts related to Syed Huq from Taslima's book "Ka". The website features pages 65-75 from her book that details Syed Huq's desperate attempt to have sex with Taslima as well as his illicit sexual activities with various women including his sister-in-law. Syed Huq put his hand on Taslima's bra hook while pretending to show sympathy when Taslima was thinking about deserting Rudra - her first husband. Taslima made it clear that she harboured as much respect for Syed Huq as much as she had qualms about his ill desires. Calcatian libertine poet Syed Hasmat Jalal lodged a libel lawsuit in Calcutta High Court against Taslima and asked for Taka 11 crore as compensation. High Court's hindu communal judge Jayant Biswas banned Taslima's book Dikhandito. Later, the book was banned by hindu fundamentalist West Bengol govt. In that West Bengal version of the book 'Ka', Taslima revealed her sexual relationship with the communal hindu novelists, poets, story writes, et al. Taslima claimed in her book that well-known novelist Sunil Ganguly had sex with her. But Sunil declined it as usual. Sunil tried in vain to justify the banning of the book by saying, "This novel is blasphemous to Islam and can spread communal violence." http://www.usenet.com/newsgroups/soc.culture.bangladesh/msg02728.html