Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin is set to return to Kolkata next month for the first time in nearly 19 years to attend an anti-fundamentalism literary event in a visit that has quickly acquired political significance.
While organisers describe it as a celebration of free expression and secular values, the BJP has projected it as a symbol of what it calls a “new Bengal" after years of political compromise over religious sensitivities.
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