India Is Putting Its Neck On the Line. This Event Will Demonstrate Whether It
is WITH the Muslims OR AGAINST the Muslims. - AB
Taslima Appeals to India for Citizenship
28 Jan, 2007 1553hrs IST PTI ]
http://justsamachar.com/national/taslima-appeals-to-india-for-citizenship/
KOLKATA: Doubting she would be able to visit her motherland whatever be the
outcome of elections there, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has appealed to
the Indian government to grant her citizenship or permanent resident status.
"To live like a writer I cannot shift elsewhere. Here (India) I can meet my own
people, converse with them in my own language, the language for expressing my
thoughts. The government can help me live as a writer," she said.
The writer, who was earlier given a six-month residential permit valid till
February 17 said she hoped that the appeal made to the Foreigners' Registration
Office in December for a six-month permit extension from February would be
granted.
"I can then concentrate on my writing. Let us see," Taslima, who has also lived
in Sweden, Germany and France, said. "I am also loved by people in Europe but
Kolkata holds a special place for me."
Asked if she wished to return to her home in Bangladesh, which she was forced
to leave in 1994 with fundamentalists issuing death threats against her after
her book Lajja invited their wrath, she said, "that does not seem to be
possible as there will not be much change in the socio-political situation in
Bangladesh.
"All major parties, ruling and opposition, will not risk antagonising the
fundamentalists, who are holding sway in Bangladesh politics at present. Both
BNP and Awami League want to keep such groups in good humour," she said.
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"For to us
will be their return; then it will be for us to call them to account." (Holy
Quran 88:25-26)
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