Lajja

Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja) (Shame) is a novel in Bengali by Taslima Nasrin, a writer of Bangladesh. The word lajja/lôjja means "shame" in Bengali and many other Indo-Aryan languages. The book was first published in 1993 in the Bengali language, and was subsequently banned in Bangladesh, and a few states of India. It nonetheless sold 50,000 copies in the six months after its publication, though Taslima fled her native Bangladesh after death threats from Islamic radicals.

Nasrin dedicated the book "to the people of the Indian subcontinent", beginning the text with the words, "let another name for religion be humanism." The novel is preceded by a preface and a chronology of events.