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I did not leave Kolkata on my own: Taslima
26 Nov 2007, 1701 hrs IST,PTI
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Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen said that she had not decided on
her own to leave Kolkata (PTI Photo)
KOLKATA: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen on Monday said that she
had not decided on her own to leave Kolkata but chose to remain
silent about her controversial departure.
"Why should I take a decision on my own? It did come to my mind that
someone would come and kill me. Many like my writings, many others
don't," she told a Bengali TV news channel.
She was asked whether she felt insecure after large-scale violence
following protests by a minority outfit demanding cancellation of her
visa rocked large parts of Central Kolkata on November 21 and took
the decision on her own to leave the city.
She said "there is freedom of expression here. Why have I to face (an
ordeal) only because of protest by a handful of people?
"I want to return to Kolkata. I have not received any green signal as
yet. I wonder from where the green signal will come", she told the
channel in a telephonic interview from Delhi.
Asked whether she had to leave Kolkata under pressure, she replied "I
do not want to speak on this. I only want to return to Kolkata. The
sooner that happens the better."
Taslima, who had fled Bangladesh in 1994 in a cloak of secrecy after
radical Muslim outfits demanded her head, said "I want to stay in
Kolkata. I do not want to go to Europe. If Bangladesh allows me to
return, I won't but I will continue to speak for my right to go (to
Bangladesh)."
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