Kolkata:
Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen – who has reached Kolkata nearly two decades after she was forced to leave the city – said her feeling was one of homecoming. “I used to call it my second home. So it feels like I have come back to my own country,” she told NDTV in an exclusive interview.
Nasreen — – who made her home in Kolkata after leaving Dhaka — had to leave the City of Joy in 2007 following massive protests over her controversial book ‘Dwikhandito’. She had been living in Delhi since.
The 63-year-old reached Kolkata this morning to attend a programme to be held on August 1.
The programme, scheduled to be held in Rabindra Sadan is a civic reception to her and will feature recitations of Taslima Nasreen’s poetry, musical performances based on her literary works, and discussions on her contribution to literature.
The event is expected to be attended by West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and renowned author Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay.
About the speech she is expected to give tomorrow, Nasreen said she hoped that people would listen to her and the poetry she is hoping to read on the occasion.
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