Home Ministry extends Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen's visa by one year
Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen's visa was extended on Tuesday for a year by the Home Ministry.
Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen's visa was extended on Tuesday for a year by the Home Ministry.
The 55-year-old writer, a citizen of Sweden, has been getting Indian visa on a continuous basis since 2004.
Living in exile since she left Bangladesh in a cloak of secrecy in 1994 in the wake of threats to her by fundamentalist groups, Taslima was given a one-year visa by the government in 2016.
She has also stayed in the US and Europe in the last two decades. However, on many occasions she had expressed her wish to live in India permanently, especially in Kolkata.
The writer had to leave Kolkata in 2007 following violent street protests by a section of Muslims against her works. Taslima said if she is not able to stay on in India she will suffer from an "identity crisis" which will affect her writings and championing the cause of women's rights.
(With agency inputs)