Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi says Taslima Nasreen should apologise 'with her hands folded' to the Muslims of India for hurting their religious sentiments. Controversial writer Taslima Nasreen has been treated virtually like an untouchable, ever since she was literally hounded out of Kolkata - no political party has been willing to stick their neck out for Taslima. -Times Now

A meeting was held in Kolkata for bringing back Taslima. Eminent Bengali writer Mahasweta Devi presided the meeting on 2^nd January.

December 2007

The Vanishing ( Bengali)

Taslima was forced to withdraw some parts of her own book.

November 2007

Taslima is forced to leave West Bengal on 22^nd of Nov.

21 November . Protest to revoke Taslima's visa

October 2007

Forced to live under virtual House Arrest since August.

September 2007

NARIR KONO DESH NEI ( NO COUNTRY FOR WOMEN) by Taslima is published. ( Riju Publishers, 9831104526,9836378327)

August 2007

Taslima was attacked by the Muslim Fundamentalists in the city of Hyderabad, India.

The Muslim Fundamentalists declared ''unlimited reward'' on the head of Taslima.

Clerics bay for Taslima blood

10 Muslim organisations ( Milli Ittehad Parishad) are united to demand Taslima's deportation and seizure of all her books.

April 2007

Taslima wants fundamentalism tackled

Right to freedom lies with individual: Taslima

Taslima was honoured by Bharat Bhavan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. 15 April

March 2007

I fight for rights of humanity: Taslima The HINDU 30 March

Thiruvananthapuram,March.30 (PTI): Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen today said she was being persecuted for fighting for the rights of humanity.

Addressing the 'Ananthapuri International Book Festival' here, Nasreen said she did not want to shut her mouth on injustices against women. She also wanted India, the country she adopted, to follow a uniform civil code.

As a writer,she felt very safe in India and felt at home in Kerala.Taslima said her only fault was that she had fought fo secularism and equality.

Taslima said she would continue the fight for rights of women. Forests Minister Binoy Viswam inaugurated the book festival.

INDIA: Muslim group sets Rs 5 lakh on Taslima

Times of India
Saturday, March 17, 2007

By Manjari Mishra

Lucknow --- Nearly seven months after UP minister Haji Yakoob Qureshi raised a storm by announcing a reward on the heads of two Danish cartoonists for lampooning the Prophet, a little-known conservative Muslim group on Friday offered a Rs 5 lakh bounty for the head of controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen.

President of the All India Ibtehad Council, Taqi Raza Khan ordered the elimination (qatal) of the exiled novelist. The decision, he said, had full approval of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (Jadid), a splinter group set up four years ago in Bareilly. Jadid means new.

Khan said he had declared a reward of Rs 5 lakh for anyone who killed the "notorious woman". He claimed a core body of the board comprising 150 ulema, lawyers, retired IPS officers, doctors and professors had already passed a resolution on Thursday to oust Nasreen from India. Khan enjoys wide support among the Barelvi sect and the issue is likely to generate heat in coming days, especially with assembly elections round the corner, observers said.

Would the decision be reconsidered? Only if "woh mafi mangey, apni sari kitabein jalaye, aur tauba kare (she apologises, burns her books and leaves)," Khan said.

What has Nasreen done to ruffle this body? "Yeh aurat behad badzuban hai, aur Shariat par hamla karti rahi hai (this woman has a vicious tongue and has been attacking the Shariat)," said Khan.

"We have been hearing that the Indian government is thinking of granting her citizenship. The idea is repugnant to all God-fearing Muslims.

If the government does not drive her out within 10 days, all hell will break lose."

Date Posted: 3/17/2007

Taslima attended women's conference celebrating international women's day, in London.

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