Taslima undeterred, writing sequel to Lajja

Lajja, which drew attention to the torture of Hindu minorities in Bangladesh, raised the hackles of Muslim clerics and was banned by the Bangladesh government.

Terming her detractors as proponents of 8220;irrational blind faith,8221; Taslima, who has been living in exile for 12 years and whose Bangladeshi passport stands revoked, said 8220;they are averse to a rationale logical mind.8221;

Taslima was attacked by activists of Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen in Hyderabad on August nine at the release of the Telugu translation of her latest work 8216;Shodh8217;.

She said though her forthright views about the condition of women in Muslim society had been widely publicised and invited the wrath of clerics, she had also come out strongly against fundamentalists in other religions on certain issues.

8220;I had criticised those who stopped the shooting of Deepa Mehta8217;s film Water in Varanasi in 2001 in my writing in a leading Bengali daily,8221; Nasreen recalled.