[Reader-list] A YEAR OF SHAME

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Invitation 

A YEAR OF SHAME

On the eve of one year of throwing out of Taslima Nasrin from Kolkata
An anthology of Poems for Taslima to be released by 
Eminent educationist and thinker Amlan Dutta,

An Evening Of Protest With Poems of  

Tarun Sanyal, Sarat Mukhopadhy, Joy Goswami, Sabyasachi Deb, Shrijato, Kalikrishna Guha, Farukh Ahmed, Lalmia Molla, Naser Hussain, Ranjit Gupta, Namita Chowdhury, Mousumi Bilkis, Taimur Khan, Pallab Kirtania, Partho Bandyopadhyay, Bipul Chakraborty, Sumitava Ghosal and others. Giyasuddin and Saswati Ghosh will speak

ON 19 DECEMBER, 2008. ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, CONFERENCE HALL, KOLKATA, 6 PM
Organised by CAAMB (Campaign Against Atrocities on Minorities of Bangladesh), Kolkata



A year back, on 22 December 2007, Taslima Nasrin was hounded out of Kolkata by Islamic fundamentalists. She was earlier hounded out of Bangladesh, roamed like a refugee throughout the world, but always believed that she at least had a safe house in the left and secular city of Kolkata. We also believed that.

The process of hounding out Taslima from West Bengal began long back. She was barred to read her poems in Medinipur, she was not allowed to inaugurate The Book Fair in Siliguri. To support these fundamentalists, Left Front government banned her book. Our protest was too mild. And then finally on 22 December 2007, Left front government threw her out of Kolkata after a day-long violence by a group of Muslims in Kolkata. The expulsion was supported by Trinamul leader Mamata Bandopadhyay in her earlier lectures to the madrasa students, CPI-M supremo Biman Basu told that Taslima should have left herself earlier, Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee said that the violence on 21 December was like the freedom struggle. Kolkata had to realise who really controls the so-called cultural capital of India. Kolkatans never faced such a shame earlier. 

Taslima still cannot come back to Kolkata. We have lived through a year of shame.

We shall not forget. We shall not remain silent. Join us there