Taslima in India to extend visa
Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin is now in the Capital to get her Indian visa extended since the validity of the travel document expires in August.
Taslima, who has been in and out of the country after she was dramatically bundled out of West Bengal in November 2007 in the wake of protests by radical Muslim groups, arrived from London in the early hours of Sunday and was immediately whisked away to a safe location.
The 47-year-old doctor-turned writer is also trying to get permanent residency in India. Her visa is valid till August 16.
The future plans of the writer, who shot to fame with her controversial book Lajja, were not immediately known.
The government has already made it clear that Taslima’s visa cannot be extended beyond August 16 prompting her to take the help of some of the country’s prominent writers.
At the time when her visa was extended before, Taslima was told this would be the last extension under the category (miscellaneous) she had applied the visa, official sources said on Tuesday.
Taslima, a Swedish passport-holder, had sought a visa under the miscellaneous category in 2005 and it has since been extended initially for a year and later for six months. The visa under this category cannot be extended beyond five years. —PTI
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