Mr. Haq's plea

The course that Syed Haq has followed to castrate the freedom of pen of Ms Taslima speaks for his male chauvinistic ego.

I can assure you that in a society, where news of female students being molested by their respected teachers are published frequently ( Ref. the recent incident in Rajshahi University), such sexual harassment by our so-called progressive writers could not have been the figment of imagination.

Our senior students made us aware of these perverts, who in the guise of being progressive intellectuals, tend to exploit the innocent and young female students, especially those lacking a strong personality.

Such news should become public. Because of the social stigma that we would have to face, compounded with a sense of guilt, shame, and fear to lose public face, we could not always take legal action against such harassment. Had there been social justice, I can guarantee that a good number of our so-called vanguards of modernity, who claim to belong to schools of contemporary writing, would have ended up in prison.

I congratulate Ms Taslima for exposing the double faces of the hypocrites .