[Reader-list] A YEAR OF SHAME

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

like INDER SALIM.

On 11/10/08, inder salim <indersalim at gmail.com> wrote:
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> in the least,  i hope , the stupid Govt would ensure this 'Taslima
> Event' not disrupted by extra stupid elements
>
> love
> is
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> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:45 PM, MRSG <mrsg at vsnl.com> wrote:
> > 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
> >
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> >
> >
> >  Shuddha
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> >  On 10-Nov-08, at 7:15 PM, MRSG wrote:
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> >    Invitation
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> >    A YEAR OF SHAME
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> >    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
> >
> >
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> >    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
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> >    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.
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> >
> >
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> >    We shall not forget. We shall not remain silent. Join us there
> >
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> >  Shuddhabrata Sengupta
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