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Rumour has it UTV Motion Pictures is toying with the idea of making a movie on the life of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen. As a source of UTV divulges, Tabu has been finalized for easing the character of Taslima as she fits the...
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Painter Maqbool Fida Hussein and writer Taslima Nasreen are coming back to India by the first week of September. Bangladeshi writer Taslima is not only being back; but...
made popular Aug 8 2008
Some extremists are after me. They want to suppress my voice. But they should learn from the past experience that I am not amongst those who get terrorised by their...
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Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has said that she would like to stay in Tripura when she returns to India if not allowed to stay in Kolkata, before the...
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Are we ready for a moron Prime Minister?
The Indian Supreme Court has given a landmark judgment with far reaching implications. Readers might recall that artist...
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So the mullahs have had their way. Dissident Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has decided to leave India for a country where she will not be kept in solitary...
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Taslima Nasreen has finally decided to leave India. However, the decision to leave India is more political than personal, as she cited in a letter to her supporters...
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Taslima Nasreen, the controversial Bangladeshi author living in exile in India has had enough in that country. She was first driven out of Kolkata in September 2007...
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The recent visa episode of Bangladeshi writer in India once again showed the hypocritical attitude of Indians to the world, particularly to the Islamic world. I was...
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The Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen is living in a ‘stateless’ situation in search for refuge after being hounded out of her motherland. After spending a couple...
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The Times of India has a unique view about our rising mob violence. It cites the Salwa Judum or people’s militia in Chhattisgarh, the Islamic fundamentalists...
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A leading Muslim cleric issued a fatwa that the face of controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen be blackened for her alleged comments against Islam and...
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The Muslim leaders were turned on killing me. They broke open the door of the Hyderabad Press Club and hurled brickbats at me. Had they been armed, they would have...
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On Thursday, MLAs of the Majlis Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), Afsar Khan, Ahmed Pasha Quadri and Mozam Khan, stormed the Hyderabad Press club with their supporters and...
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Taslima Nasreen has appealed to the government of India to grant her Indian Citizenship or permanent resident status in India.
She expressed doubts that she would be...
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Exiled Muslim writer Taslima Nasreen always courts controversy due to her outrageous comments. From fatwa’s to burning effigies, she has taken everything in her...
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Taslima Nasreen, the debatable writer from Bangladesh is yet again caught up in a controversy. Syed Noorul Rahman Barkati, the Imam from the Tipu Sultan Mosque in...
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