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Bangladeshi icon of women freedom Taslima Nasreen requests Indian Citizenship – why is India hesitating?
She is the icon of all struggles against religious fundamentalism especially when that obstructs women’s rights. Taslima Nasreen was deported from Bangladesh because she did not agree to succumb to homegrown Bangladeshi Mullahs and Italianism. She fought all her life against Bangladesh’s fundamentalism.
Whether it is Islam, Hindus or neo cons in western nations trying to prohibit abortion, India need to support the cause for freedom for women.
India's government faced a quandary after Taslima Nasreen, the controversial Bangladeshi author, asked for Indian citizenship. Ms Nasreen, deported from Bangladesh in 1994 after an Islamist radical outcry over the feminist content of her novels, said she wanted to live in Calcutta, in India's state of West Bengal, where she could speak her native Bengali.
"My main wish is to live in a city that speaks Bengali and which is a hospitable place for writers and artists," said Ms Nasreen yesterday. "For 10 years Bangladesh has refused me permission to return home. In that time both of my parents have died. I just want to be back in an environment where I feel I can write."
What made India even think before providing her the citizenship? Who else is Sonia Gandhi planning to provide citizenship?
India needs to stand up and say to the world – India stands for democratic freedom, freedom for minorities, freedom from cast systems and above all freedom for women.
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