Study of Various Personality Traits of Individuals as Reflected in Talima Nasreen’s Lajja: Study of Mankind with Different Disguise

Taslima Nasrin is hailed as one of the most powerful voices in the literary canon of Bangladeshi English Literature and her epoch making work Lajja is rightly regarded as a perfect example of 'gendered subaltern narrative'. In the novel, she presents a cross - section of Bangladeshi society after twenty years of its separation from Indian sub - continent, caught up in the trauma of post colonial nation building and identity consciousness. The complex sense of Bangladeshi nationalism, which is inextricably linked to its religious identity, is the pivot on which Lajja turns. The immediate backdrop of the novel is the demolition of Babri Masjid, the sixteenth century religious edifice situated in India that inflicted a series of barbaric tyranny in Bangladesh against the minority Hindus who were soon labelled as the "Other". This paper is revolving around different aspects of individual behaviour as influenced by their personality traits, reflected in this wonderful novel Lajja.