I agree with Mr Sitangshu Guha on Taslima Nusreen's quit-India but differ with the following portion:"Its appeasing to militant Islamists & India did it again, where South Asia is heading?"
Salil Biswas, former principal, City College, and secular woman intellectual, Dr Miratun Nahar, who left the West Bengal Women's Commission, for its showbiz symoathy towards women at a seminar, organised by Kolkata-based Nagarik Samanvay that Taslima was deported from Kolkata not under threat from the Islamic obscurantists ( I dislike the word fundamentalist as fundamentalism is essentially academic). Dr Nahar, now reader in philosophy, Victoria College, narrated an incident. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee convened a meeting where she found only some Muslim representatives were present including some suspect communalists. She protested and remained mum throughout.
Prof Biswas pointed out that the content of letter from publishers to the Book Sellers & Publishers' Guild, organiser of Kolkata Book Fair, asking for ban on Taslima's books were fully identical. " It was obviously drafted by some bureaucrat".
So the threat was from the State.
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