I don’t think I am alive: Taslima
Monday, 31 December , 2007, 17:27Kolkata: Confined to a ’safe house’ somewhere in New Delhi and shut out from the world except for phone calls and emails, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen will ring in 2008 in a no man’s land of fading hope, despair and crushing loneliness.“I am only breathing. I don’t think I am alive like you are. Can anybody live like this? It was beyond my imagination that in a secular democracy this can happen to a writer,” Nasreen told IANS from her room in an undisclosed New Delhi destination on New Year’s Eve.
Nasreen, who has been living under state protection since November 2007 when she was removed from Kolkata after street riots over her “anti-Islam” writings, has been virtually told by Indian officials that that she could either continue to stay in the national capital confined in a room or leave the country.
This reinforces my belief that there is no secular country. They all seem to be full of rabid religious nutsos bent on world domination.
(via Poetry Hut)