New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) Author Taslima Nasrin’s upcoming Kolkata visit has become a subject of political debate since it became known that the writer, a long-standing target of zealots, is attending an anti-fundamentalism literary event on August 1, nearly two decades after her forced exile from the city she chose as home since being banished from her homeland in Bangladesh.In March last year, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP, Samik Bhattacharya, now the party chief in West Bengal…
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Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) Acclaimed Bangladeshi writer and poet Taslima Nasrin will come to Kolkata on August 1 after 19 years since she left Kolkata for her motherland after pockets in Kolkata turned into virtual battlefields in 2007 during the then West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led regime over the contents of her book “Dwikhandito (The Bifurcated)”. She will be coming to Kolkata on August 1 to attend a cultural programme at Rabindra Sadan in Central Kolkata organised by diff…