Click to play videoNew Delhi: In a first planned protest in her support since controversial Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen fled Kolkata, close to 500 friends and supporters of the exiled Bangladeshi author are holding a protest march in Kolkata demanding that she be allowed entry into the city.
The rally began from the Academy of Fine Arts in the south of the city and will end at Esplanade in central Kolkata.
Meanwhile, the controversial writer has reportedly told her publisher that she won't be able to give the manuscript of her next book on time as she has not been able to write for the past two months.
However, the Kolkata book fair in January will only see the copy of her poems and her past books, which are all in Bengali.
A book of poems by Taslima Nasreen called Tui Nishiddho, Tui Kotha Koish Na (You Shut Up, You Don’t Speak) will be released at Kolkata book fair.
A day after the government told Taslima Nasreen that she could either continue to stay in the national capital confined or leave the country, the controversial Bangladeshi writer appealed to the government to "change its mind".
Nasreen, who is living amid tight security in a safe house here, told television news channel that, "I appeal to the government to change its mind."
She also asserted that she would leave India if she is stopped from returning to Kolkata, which she considers her home.
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