How does one prevent party politics from hijacking human rights?
That's the question that lies behind the latest controversy around Bangladeshi writer, Taslima Nasrin, who now lives in India.
Her autobiography ran into some legal trouble in India in 2004 because it was considered "sexually disturbing" and she was accused of tarnishing the image of living individuals – to which she famously replied, if she had ‘tarnished’ any person’s image it was her own.
Nov 30, 2007
Human rights and Taslima
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