The exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslaima Nasreen said that she does not move from Delhi to Kolkata for a possible option at this point, saying “I don’t want to kick around anymore”.
Talking to PTI on the BJP in Parliament in Parliament, Nasreen said that she would urge the concerned governments in both Bengal and the Center, so that she allows the city to travel every time to participate in literary works and book fairs, with which she continues to share a strong emotional bond.
“I have been kicked around like a football by political dispensation, which used to feel comfortable with my presence within my boundaries due to my literary and world views. In this stage of my life, I do not want to kick around anymore. Instead, instead, I have to please me if the governments allow me to travel to Kolekata, where I am regularly invited from where the governments allow me to visit Kolekata.
Nasreen, who had attracted global attention due to his faster criticism in the early 90s due to his essays and novels as feminist views and “wrong religions”, which was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994, in 1994, in which many fatwas were called for the death of his novel ‘Lajja’.
She moved to India in 2004 after spending a decade in Europe and America, and spent the next three years in Kolkata, until some controversial route from her book ‘Dvuhandita’, in November 2007, instigated large -scale violence on the city roads. She was forced to leave from Kolkata, first for Jaipur and later for Delh.
Gynecologist Nasreen is currently located on a long-term resident permit and several-entry visas in Delhi.
Addressing Parliament earlier this week, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya urged the Center to ensure a safe return to Nasreen’s Kolkata, leading to a new row of political dust.
“I do not understand politics, nor do I have any connection with any politician. I have also denied proposals for literary awards from Saffron Camp in the past,” Nasreen said, “I said,” I am grateful to Mr. Bhattacharya, whom I do not personally know, to raise the issue. ” “Very few people, in the last 18 years, have talked about that a writer writing in Bengali should be forcibly disappeared from Bengal on both sides of the international border. I have disturbed that pain for a long time and not written about them. I am not interested. I am not interested. Politics,” he said.
Nasreen, who has received several international awards, recalled her experiences with the then left rule in West Bengal and the Congress -led government at the Center, both of them alleged, she wanted her out.
“I still find it difficult to believe that the Left, who takes an oath by secularism, chose to expel a writer with the strongest secular credentials and banned his book. I felt that religion, my atheism and my confidence system matches my views with the leftist parties.
“In Delhi too I was under intense pressure to leave the country. The ruling spread of that time offered me money and other luxury I should choose to stay abroad and not to return. I didn’t nod,” he said.
However, Nasreen felt that the socio-political situation in West Bengal was not sufficiently sufficient to ensure its peaceful rehabilitation, no matter how badly he could.
“I would be happy if they allow me to visit Kolkata once to meet their friends and participate in literary meat,” he urged.
Bhattacharya said that he was on the same page with the author on the issue of his transfer.
“Taslima is a Bengali writer who speaks and writes in Bengali, thinks and dreams in that language. It is not important where she lives. But whenever she is happy, she must be well within her rights to visit West Bengal. Kolkata is the nervous center of Bengal’s cultural efforts and it should be explained both cultural and literary events.
Bhattacharya said that he would write to the Center to ensure that Nasreen can travel to Kolkata whenever he wants.
“This has nothing to do with my politics. I have raised this issue completely on humanitarian basis. I have said in my Parliament speech that a man who does not try for mankind is not a man. He is not a man. Taslima Nasreen’s life and work is a living testimony. It is our duty to accept that achievement.
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