taslima nasrin
Nov 24 2007, Ravinder Makhaik

# Islam has not been kind to writers who have differed with their own religion. Fundamentalists have hounded them.
# Taslima, persecuted for her musings, is homeless again.
# Rushdie’s controversial book ‘Satanic Verses’ published in 1988...

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