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The (Ubiquitous) F-Word: Musings on Feminisms and Censorships in South Asia

Brinda Bose

Hindu College, Delhi University, India brindabose@gmail.com

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August 2007, Hyderabad, India: Exiled Bangladeshi writer, Taslima Nasrin, is attacked by members of a Muslim fundamentalist group for insulting Islam in her writings, at a gathering at the city's Press Club to release a translation of her latest book. A fatwa inciting her beheading is reinvoked by them. Nasrin is escorted to safety, and she asks for security personnel as well as an extension of her Indian visa. The police, while charging her assailants for assault, also issue a warrant for Nasrin's arrest for hurting the sentiments of the Muslim community. (Nasrin was condemned for her trenchant, sustained critique of the status of women in Bangladesh's Islamic society and her defiantly erotic prose, and was forced to flee the country more than ten years ago.) However, Nasrin is allowed to return from Hyderabad to Calcutta where she now lives. Her stay permit in India is extended by six months.

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