Taslima nasrin religion

| 17 Reformulating the Notion of ‘Life’ within Life Narratives through a Reading of Tek Nath Rizal’s Nirbasan KRITIKA CHETTRI Abstract: This study will read Tek Nath Rizal’s memoir, Nirbasan, which recounts his journey from being a citizen of Bhutan to being imprisoned overnight under fabricated charges and held without trial for ten years, till eventually finding release, while simultaneously also being exiled from Bhutan.

As the conditions of existence change for Rizal, it also impacts the understanding of ‘life’ within his memoir. This study will engage with Judith Butler’s argument of frames which help to qualify and ‘recognize’ lives while being prone to breakage themselves and also with Agamben’s notion of ‘bare life,’ that aids in arriving at the central question of mobility, that seeks to define life at the border.

The essay will then examine how mobility as