India extends Taslima Nasreen's visa by one year
Controversial writer Taslima Nasreen, living in exile since 1994, has been given a one-year visa by Indian government and allowed to stay in this country till August 2015.
Nasreen, 51, was last month given two months temporary visa after the Home Ministry decided to initiate a verification process of her visa application.
"The writer's visa has been extended for one year, till August 2015," a Home Ministry official said yesterday.
Naseen had met Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh on August 2 after India's decision to grant her 2-month visa. At that time, the Home Minister had assured her to consider her plea for a longer-term visa.
Nasreen had to leave Bangladesh in 1994 in the wake of death threat by fundamentalist outfits.
She, now a citizen of Sweden, has been getting Indian visas on a continuous basis since 2004.
She has lived in the US, Europe and India in the last two decades since her exile. However, on many occasions she had expressed her wish to live in India permanently, especially in Kolkata.
The writer had to leave Kolkata in 2007 following violent street protests by a section of Muslims against her works.
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