The invitation to Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin to return to Kolkata after nearly two decades to participate in a public event on August 1 is long overdue and enormously welcome. It is freighted with political symbolism. In 2007, the publication of Dwikhondito , the third instalment of Nasrin’s memoir, had led to protests, forcing the writer to move out of the city that had been her home since her exile from Bangladesh following the publication of her novel Lajja (1993). Whatever the government’s reasons now — the ruling BJP in West Bengal........

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