Has India let down Taslima Nasreen?

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Incredible India, shining India but not it seems secular or progressive India. Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen now says she is forced to leave India as the Government has been denying her medical treatment and is only using her to get Muslim votes.

Taslima says she is being forced to go abroad to get urgent medical help as she has been under enormous mental and physical stress in solitary confinement in a safe house in Delhi.

In March 2007, the Islamic group, All India Ittehad Millat Council offered Rupees Five hundred thousand for her beheading. Later in August, Taslima was attacked by MIM activists at the Hyderabad Press Club during the launch of her novel Shodh in Telegu.

The author was then packed off from Kolkata soon after a riot-like situation broke out in the city streets.

She was first sent to Jaipur and then to New Delhi where she was moved to a safe house.

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Taslima buckled under pressure from protestors and the Government by withdrawing passages from her autobiography Dwikhandita that were believed to be anti-Islamic. She told CNN-IBN that for the first time in her life, a so-called secular India had forced her to compromise on her freedom of expression.

In February 2008 Taslima's visa was extended but she has decided to leave India for some time for medical treatment.

The incidents in India during 2007 prompted Taslima to begin writing a new book, which is to be titled Narir kono desh nei...A woman has no country.

Has India let down Taslima Nasreen? This was the question debated on CNN-IBN’s Face The Nation hosted by Sagarika Ghose.

To discuss the issue on the panel were Tarun Vijay, Chief Editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh organ Panchjanya, Asaduddin Owaisi, MP,Hyderabad & Member, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimmen and Amit Chaudhuri Author.

The initial result showed that 13 per cent of the people said yes India has let down Taslima Nasreen while 87 per cent of the people disagreed to the fact.