Taslima to leave India tonight, may go to Sweden

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New Delhi: Controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen, who had on Monday revealed her plans to leave India, may fly out of the country as early as on Tuesday night. According to sources, Taslima will be heading for Sweden.

The author, who has been living in India for the past four years, says she needs to go abroad to de-stress herself.

"I cannot endure it anymore," Taslima said on Monday. "I am leaving because there is no other option left for me," she said after meeting officials at the External Affairs Ministry.

While she did not specify where she was planning to go, Taslima said: "There are many countries ready to welcome me."

The author, who now lives in a safe house near Delhi due to security concerns, has been complaining of medical problems for some time now. She has also expressed unhappiness over the kind of treatment she has received in Delhi.

Taslima says the suffering she has been undergoing for the past seven-and-a-half months had affected her health. She said she had been suffering from a heart disease and retinopathy, an eye ailment.

The author says she is leaving simply because she wants to lead a normal life. "I have to leave this impossible situation. I cannot interact with people. I cannot anymore take this stress which has led to hypertension," PTI quoted her as saying on Monday.

"I want to lead a de-stressed life and I want to live life to the full," the author, who was literally hounded out of Kolkata recently, said.

Asked if she would come back to India after treatment, she said she would love to come back to India, particularly to her favourite city Kolkata, if she is allowed to lead a normal life.