My message is : ``India is not a theocracy. I don't want to be used for political purposes. Viswanath: Do you think political parties are using your name for the sake of gaining 'extra mileage'? What message would you give to the hard-core Islamic fundamentalists? Taslima Nasreen: I am a writer. Taslima Nasreen:When a writer censors her writing on her own, it's one thing, it's quite a different matter when she is FORCED to censor her own creations. Then why you have take such kind of bad decisions? Please continiously write good books. It's the perception and the thought about the community. I don't think anything is wrong in your books. My question here is, recently you said that you are going to remove some controversial words from your book. Only the people, those who are not educated or who don't know about the good writings. They won't agree the secular writings or the controversy words from the female. I remember the goldan words: "When a nation's young men are conservative, their funeral bell is already rang." Most of all the communities in Asia are always trying to crash the females. We feel you are doing good in writing the good books. Francis Vij, Phoenix,United States: There is no end point for good writings. PAGE_BREAK Cyril: "If any religion allows the persecution of the people of different faiths, if any religion keeps women in slavery, if any religion keeps people in ignorance, then I can't accept that religion." Could you please make clear if you accept any religion or do you respect any religion? Taslima Nasreen: I am a humanist free from religion. Otherwise most Indians, I believe, are liberal. It is only a handful of fanatics who cause trouble of this kind. Taslima Nasreen: I am also proud of India. I'm proud of India, but that incident had shaken me. A lady can't write her feelings and experience openly in 21st Century. When I heard about the tragic scene of your press conference, I was totally devestated to learn that this thing is still happening in India. Canadian Desi: Hello Taslima, I'm from Canada. My citizenship rights have been violated and trampled upon for 13 years. Paritosh: Do you wish to go back to Bangladesh, your own motherland? Taslima Nasreen: The Bangladesh Government does not allow me to go back to my own country. I hope that I will be allowed to go back home. I don't want to lose my faith in Indian secularism. Raj: Hi Madam, how does it feel being away from Kolkata? Secondly, has your perception changed about Indian politics now, I mean about the type of secularism, freedom and democracy we are having here? Taslima Nasreen: I feel very depressed, forced to live out of Kolkata after being thrown out from the city I had been living in. Here we reproduce the full text of the chat. She did this interaction from a laptop and on the phone from an undisclosed location where the Indian Government is keeping her. In her first-ever web chat, the Bangladeshi author had interacted with readers on IBNLive for well over two hours and fielded their questions on a range of issues including literature, philosophy, on life in general, social issues and gender questions. At the same time, she has been dogged by controversy from the day her book, Lajja, was published. Her literature has won her millions of admirers all over the world. New Delhi: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen achieved a meteoric rise to fame in the 1980s for her strong feminist views, which are often seen as criticism of Islam and religion in general.
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