When Taslima Nasreen’s Amar Meyebela and its English translation My Girlhood were published between 1999 and 2001, the minds and hearts of the readers were excited. Today the book is established as an unforgettable autobiography. Uttla Hawa, Wild Wind in translation, is the second volume of this autobiography. In it, is the story of Taslima’s tumultuous youth, between the ages of sixteen and twenty-four. During these years, she not only pursues a long and strenuous MBBS degree course, she also falls hopelessly in love. We can once again see the fusion of daring mind-speak and a sense of sympathy and concern. But Taslima is now growing older, her observing eyes of all that is going on around her is becoming sharper, her experience has become more widespread. That is how, in this volume we discover quite a substantial portion of the reasons why Taslima, grew into Taslima. Brought up in a backward society and family, how this girl amidst various restrictions was able to gradually break out of the old traditions, has emerged with outstanding clarity and faith. Her love, the joys and sorrows of love, the ups and downs in the relationship, the final resolution-comes across to the reader as an emotionally painful and extremely distressing experience.
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