Biplav,
Extremely sorry for this serious error; I never knew it was your official email address.
Tushar
Subject: Re: My Bangladeshi friend denied Indian visa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:19:02 +0800
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With due respect and no offence to any one may I request you to delete my name from this chain mail. I hope you will appreciate that my company email ID should not be used for chain mails on such matters.
Many thanks
Biplav Basu
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Sent: Mon Dec 21 00:04:59 2009
Subject: RE: My Bangladeshi friend denied Indian visa
Thanks. There have been other proposals on this matter. I will be asking Samir about it, but it is too late now for 2nd January. This programme 'My country' is his brainchild. I have seen it twice already. 'My Country' represents both Bengals!! What a bloody irony!!!
Tushar,
London
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:30:51 +0530
Subject: Re: My Bangladeshi friend denied Indian visa
From: ckchakrabarti@gmail.com
To: tusharsarkar90@hotmail.com
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Tushar,
I appreciate your concern that a 'secular' Bangladeshi was not provided visa for participation in a cultural programme in Kolkata (I assume it is not political). It is utterly deplorable!
But after 26/11 the GoI is really in a soup. A friend of mine told me that he had to take US citizenship to avoid difficulties in getting visa from developed countries. A local paper this morning reported Taslima Nasrin's requests to the Bangladesh Govt. remains unheeded. She was shamefully sent out of Kolkata by the LF Govt.!
Recently, a group of intellectuals have come forwarded to form a group styled "Sushil Samaj" which is fighting social injustices. You may contact them for taking up the visa matter with the Govt.
Sabai Bhalo theko
Chanchal
On 12/20/09, CK Chakrabarti <ckchakrabarti@gmail.com> wrote:
Tushar,. It is utterly deplorable! But after 26/11 the GoI is really in a soup.A friend of mine told me that
On 12/19/09, tushar sarkar <tusharsarkar90@hotmail.com> wrote:Chanchal,
I agree with you that all governments are responsible for visa problems. But, this is a bizarre case. He was in Kolkata last year, and because he is a Bangladeshi muslim, he was asked to report routinely to the Kolkata police station. At no time did the Kolkata police bring any charge against him. Now he has been told that he is a "suspected" person without any specific evidence! And what an irony, he was so moved by Kolkata cultural life, he keeps advising every Bangladeshi he knows in London to visit Kolkata. At a birthday ceremony of Shri Ramakrishna this year in London he recited from Kathamrita!!! He organised at the Mahatma Gandhi Hall in London a joint festival of Bijoya and Eid.
When he told me on the telephone completely brokenhearted about this visa debacle: "Dada, this is because I am a Muslim", I could only curse the Brahminic Indian society.
Tushar,
London
Tushar,
London
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:53:30 +0530
Subject: Re: My Bangladeshi friend denied Indian visa
From: ckchakrabarti@gmail.com
To: tusharsarkar90@hotmail.com
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Dear All,I faced a lot of problems in obtaining visa for Saudi Arabia. I learn many Indians are denied visa for U.K.! Nevertheless, for a democratic India it is not good to deny visa to a 'respected person'.
Shame on all governments who deny visa?Chanchal KolkataOn 12/18/09, tushar sarkar <tusharsarkar90@hotmail.com> wrote:Dear All,
Sometime ago, I told you about a unique programme, 'My Country'; the only Bangladeshi participant and central recitationist, Samir Khan, has been denied entry visa for India!!!!! He has ben told that he is a 'suspected' person. Bangladeshi High Commission in London stood for him, but that did not make any difference.
The hall and some local additional artistes have been paid for. A lot of publicity has been done. Now the Kolkata organisers are trying to save the programme by alternative support.
Shame on the Indian government.
Tushar,
London
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