[Reader-list] A YEAR OF SHAME

[MRSG]

Dear Shudda Sengupta
Thanks. Kindly correct the date - It is on 19 Novemeber 2008.
M Ray
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta 
  To: MRSG 
  Cc: sarai list 
  Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [Reader-list] A YEAR OF SHAME


  Dear M.Ray,  



  Thank you very much for posting this. It is very good to know that Kolkata stands by the exiled writer Taslima Nasrin. I hope that she will one day be able to return to live there in liberty and dignity.




  regards




  Shuddha





  On 10-Nov-08, at 7:15 PM, MRSG wrote:



    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

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