Taslima Nasreen, who has been living in India for years, said Zia’s government actively sided with fundamentalist forces instead of defending free expression.
“We Bengalis—whatever religion or philosophy we may have embraced over the course of history—belong, in our national identity, to India,” Taslima Nasreen wrote.
Taslima Nasrin was first exiled in 1994 by the government of Khaleda Zia and again in 1999 under Hasina’s leadership. Her passport was never renewed, her books were banned, and charges of blasphemy were levelled against her.
She had made a public appeal to Amit Shah on October 21 requesting him to extend her residence permit, which was pending since July 22.
Nasreen, who left Bangladesh in 1994 due to threats from fundamentalist groups over her book "Lajja," has been living in exile since. Her work, banned in Bangladesh, has achieved international success.
In a series of tweets, the exiled author blamed Apollo hospitals for botched hip replacement, alleging that the treating doctor advised her hip replacement surgery, while she complained of pain in knee.
Hours later, after the account was revived, Nasreen responded with only one word in Bengali: "Resurrection".
Facebook has banned me for writing Islamists destroyed Bangladeshi Hindu houses & temples... Nasreen said.
Watch CNBC-TV18‘s Ronojoy Banerjee in conversation with Writer Taslima Nasreen where she talks about life away from home, views on radicalism, politics on religion, lack of secular education and various other issues.
The author condemned the recent mob lynching in Jharkhand where two cattle traders were killed and hanged, the Dadri lynching incident last year and the killing of rationalists Govind Pansare, Narendra Dabholkar and M M Kalburgi.