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| Six months' tourist visa for Taslima Nasreen | | | Kolkata, Aug 16 :
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who has been living in exile for 12 years, said she was shocked and shattered upon being granted a six months' 'tourist visa' by the Indian government after her one year residential permit expired today.
A dejected Ms Nasreen said,''I just came to know that I have been granted a six months' tourist visa. I'm shocked and shattered because by this I'm denied a residential permit in India and reduced to the status of a tourist.'' ''As a tourist, I can be asked to leave any moment. My visa can not be renewed in future too. A tourist visa can be given even for three days while a residential permit can be granted for ten years also.'' ''This is a very sad news. I don't know what to say or what is the politics behind it. I have no idea except that it is a very bad news for me,'' said the 44-year-old writer, who had to leave her homeland, after she angered the Islamic fundamentalists.
''I don't know whether I would be able to apply afresh for residential permit. But I will apply for one.'' ''I have set up a home here and now everything is uncertain.'' Taslima had been denied Indian citizenship earlier also.
West Bengal government had to lift a ban on her autobiographical book, Dwikhondito, after Ms Nasreen won a court battle.
Taslima had moved to Sweden after she drew the wrath of the fundamentalists in Bangladesh who issued a fatwa against her with the publication of her book ''Lajja'' (Shame) in 1993. |
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