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I am a victim of politics, says Taslima

I am a victim of politics, says Taslima

Author: Express News Service
Publication: The Indian Express
Date: January 6, 2008
URL: http://www.indianexpress.com/story/258206.html

Comparing her stay in Delhi to house arrest, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has alleged that even visits by her friends and relatives are monitored by the authorities. "This existence cannot be called living," she has said in an e-mail titled "how I am surviving" sent to her friends here. "What have I done to deserve this lonely existence full of uncertainties and despair? I do not believe my writings have anything to do with the incidents of November 21. If it had, then I would have been allowed to return to Kolkata after I had removed the controversial lines from my book Dwikhandito," she writes.

Copies of the letter were distributed at a literary fair here today. Taslima has also questioned the justification of the restriction on her movements in Delhi. "There have been no protests or rallies against me in Delhi. So why am I being deprived of a normal social life?" she writes. "I am not a victim of fundamentalism. I am a victim of politics which appeases fundamentalism," she says. She claims that she is not even aware of her present address. The letter ends with an appeal. "India has in the past been a refuge for so many people. I am one of them," she writes. "I long to be back in Kolkata."


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