Writer Taslima Nasreen's visa extended
The exiled author earlier tweeted: "Rajnath Singh ji told me that acche din aa gaye for me, I will get resident permit valid for 50 years. But no permit this year! : ( Waiting."
Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 when a court said she had deliberately and maliciously hurt Muslims' religious feelings with her Bengali-language novel Lajja (Shame) in which she argued that the Hindu minority in Bangladesh was poorly treated.
In other writings, she has denounced the use of religion as a means of oppression. She angered Muslims again in her autobiography Dwikhandita (Split in Two) with comments on the relationship between Prophet Mohammad and his dozen wives.
She later deleted a few paragraphs from the book, but protests continued. Several of her books have been banned in India and Bangladesh.
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