Yesterday, reacting to Taslima Nusreen's poem, Bibhas Chakraborty, wellknown drama director, actor and playwright, who had been a fellow-traveller of CPI(M) until the Singur tragedy, told at a gathering of intellectuals and performing artists, " In 1942, Gandhiji gave the call of Quit India against the British colonialists. The communists didn't support it. Today, pathetically, the call to Taslima is 'Quit India'. There is no difference between the communists (he means CPI(M) mainly) and Congress. I am ashamed of being an Indian.
Taslima wrote this story, frontpaged by The Statesman today.
Sankar Ray
Need to escape from death chamber (http://thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=1&theme=&usrsess=1&id=195674)
Taslima Nasreen
(My last testament on being forcibly driven out from my adopted homeland Bharatvarsha by the Indian State.)
I used to call this the torture chamber. I gradually came to realise that it was the chamber of death instead. I was not even allowed to stay in hospital for long though the doctors felt it was necessary in order to stabilise my blood pressure. But then, orders are orders and the government did not want to be inconvenienced by me in any way whatsoever. The government did not want the media to know I had been hospitalised. I did not have my mobile phone with me and the doctors at the government's hospital -AIIMS - were instructed to discharge me after a certain period of time. Curiously though, the decision was not left to the doctors as to what this certain period of time was to be. The last time I was admitted to this hospital a few weeks ago I was suddenly discharged as a result of governmental pressure. I am sure this was linked to a report in The Times of India which stated I had been hospitalised.
At this undisclosed location I am neither allowed to go to a doctor for consultation nor is one allowed to come to me. I suffer from severely fluctuating blood pressure and the strange thing is that I was not even allowed to speak to any of the doctors at the hospital over the telephone. Even after repeated requests I was not given a single phone number. When I was in hospital, I asked the doctors if I could call them if necessary but they said that they were not allowed to hand out their numbers. I had to make enquiries through officials to get even the simplest of answers from these doctors. I have suffered tremendously both physically and mentally. My blood pressure is now impossible to control. The doctors say it is due to stress which I must avoid at all costs. How can I not be stressed when everything is continuously stressing me out? I am brought to this place and incarcerated like some animal; my human rights constantly and continually violated. I am not allowed to step out or meet anyone. How can I not be stressed? I received the extension of my resident's permit, but the status quo continued.
Because of stress-related high blood pressure, I developed heart disease (hypertrophy), and hypertensive retinopathy, which will make me blind. As you may know uncontrolled blood pressure destroys heart, kidney and eyes.
You should know that my blood pressure was always controlled before, all the organs of my body were healthy.
After coming back from the hospital, I wanted to leave this country as soon as possible, because it is not possible to live in this prison without stress. I requested the government officials that I need to collect my important documents from my home in Kolkata, and secure my property, but they are not allowing me to go to Kolkata for 'SECURITY REASONS', not even for a few hours.
THEY FINALLY DID IT
Even though they constantly pressured me mentally to leave the country, I refused to budge. I was determined I would not leave this country. When they saw it was pointless trying to destroy my mind, they attempted to destroy my body. In this they succeeded by ruining my health which leaves me with no other alternative but to leave this country.
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