Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.

I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.