[Reader-list] A YEAR OF SHAME

[inder salim]

in the least,  i hope , the stupid Govt would ensure this 'Taslima
Event' not disrupted by extra stupid elements

love
is

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
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>  From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta
>  To: MRSG
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>  Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 7:31 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Reader-list] A YEAR OF SHAME
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>  Dear M.Ray,
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>  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.
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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
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>    An anthology of Poems for Taslima to be released by
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>    Eminent educationist and thinker Amlan Dutta,
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>    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
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>    ON 19 DECEMBER, 2008. ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, CONFERENCE HALL, KOLKATA, 6 PM
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>    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.
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>    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.
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>    Taslima still cannot come back to Kolkata. We have lived through a year of shame.
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>    We shall not forget. We shall not remain silent. Join us there
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