Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen will return to Kolkata next month after nearly two decades. She will attend an anti-radicalism literary event to be organized in the city on August 1. He had to leave Kolkata in 2007 after violent protests over his writings. Now his return is being considered politically important. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government of West Bengal is presenting this as a change in its alleged old policy of bowing to religious fundamentalism.
Taslima Nasreen told in a social media post that she will attend the program organized at Rabindra Sadan. He is expected to recite poetry at the programme. Organized by a group of secular and anti-fundamentalist organisations, the event has become important beyond the literary realm. The event comes months after the BJP took power in West Bengal and amid an ongoing political debate over freedom of expression, secularism and the state’s relationship with religious sentiments.
One of the organizers, Mohit Roy, associated with Paschimbangar Jono organization, said that this program is a celebration of Nasreen’s return to Kolkata after 20 years. He said that on November 21, 2007, Nasreen had to leave the city due to the then Left Front government succumbing to fundamentalist forces. He informed that Chief Minister Shubhedu Adhikari will also participate in this program.
Following the publication of parts of Nasreen’s autobiography ‘Dvikhandita’, there were protests at several places in the city, following which the then government asked her to leave Kolkata. He was sent first to Jaipur and then to Delhi. The central government later granted them long-term stay permission and multiple entry visas.
Minister in West Bengal Government, Agnimitra Paul said on Taslima Nasreen’s visit to West Bengal, ‘During the time of the previous government, she was not given a chance to come, I will not say this but she was not given security. He was used and the opposition people talk so much about Muslims but when he wrote the truth in the book, he was not given security and people of every religion were used in the TMC government. Today, Taslima Nasreen ji is coming to the government of Chief Minister Shubhendu Adhikari on the 1st, it is a matter of pride and happiness for us.
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