Exile English 2016
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ISBN:
9780670088744
Publisher:
Penguin books india pvt ltd
Pages:
256
Weight:
694 g
Dimensions:
20 x 29 x 3 cm
Book Cover:
Hard Cover
Thema:
- Biography and non-fiction prose
- Memoirs
On 21 November 2007, the city of Kolkata came to a rude, screeching halt as a virulent mob of religious fanatics took to the streets. Armed with a fatwa from their ideologues, the mob demanded that Taslima Nasrin leave the city immediately. While the police stood watching, mere dum witnesses to such hooliganism, a morally, intellectually and politically bankrupt Left Front government, tottering under the strain of their thirty year old backward looking rule, decided to ban her book and drive her out of the city she has always considered her second home.
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