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| Taslima Nasreen says she plans to leave India |
| 2008-03-18 |
| NEW DELHI - Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, who lives in exile in India, said on Monday that she wants to lead a normal life and needs to go abroad soon to de-stress herself, according to news reports. The 45-year-old Bengali author has been confined to a “safe house” somewhere in New Delhi after she was forced to leave West Bengal’s state capital Kolkata in November 2007 following violent protests by Muslim fundamentalist groups who said her writings were offensive to Islam. The stress of the past seven-and-a-half months had affected her health, PTI news agency quoted Nasreen as saying from an undisclosed location. She said she had been suffering from a heart disease and retinopathy, an eye ailment. “I have to leave this impossible situation. I cannot interact with people. I cannot any more take this stress which has led to hypertension,” she said. “I want to lead a de-stressed life and I want to live life to the full,” the controversial author said but did not reveal where she would be going. Asked if she would return to India after medical treatment, Nasreen said she would love to come back and live in her favourite city Kolkata if she was allowed to lead a normal life. Nasreen has been living outside Bangladesh since 1994 - first in various European countries and then in Kolkata - after Islamic fundamentalist groups in her country issued a fatwa against her writings. |
| Posted by:Steve White |