Exiled Bangladesh author gets ‘last’ Indian visa (AFP)
“Bangladesh writer Taslima Nasreen, forced to flee her homeland by Muslim extremists, said Wednesday that India had told her it will no longer renew her residence visa after the current one expires.
“Nasreen, who has been unable to live full-time in India because of opposition from Muslim hardliners in the country, said the Indian government had renewed her temporary six-month residence permit.
“But 47-year-old author, who has spent the past two years mainly in the United States, said the government told her it was ‘the last time’ the permit would be extended.
“‘I don't know where I will go if India does not give me shelter,’ Nasreen told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location in the Indian capital where she was under federal protection.
See also:
Taslima article: 2 dead, media offices attacked (Indian Express, March 3, 2010):
“Late on Tuesday night, about 15 unidentified men attacked the offices of Kannada daily Kannada Prabha and an eveninger with petrol bombs in Mangalore, injuring a person and leaving computers and office furniture smashed. The latest attacks came even as the Karnataka Police registered cases against Kannada Prabha and Urdu daily Siasat for ‘hurting religious sentiments’ after communal violence erupted in parts of the state over the publication of a translation of an article purportedly written by exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen. [...]
“At the root of the protests and violence was a full-page Sunday supplement feature published in Kannada Prabha, entitled ‘Purdah hai Purdah.’ The article was described as a translation of a 2007 Nasreen piece published in sections of the media with the title ‘Let’s think again about the burqa.’”
And see:
L’affaire Taslima (Outlook blog, March 2, 2010)
And see also earlier anti-caste posts on this courageous writer.
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