Exiled Writer Seeks New Life in India

The feminist author Taslima Nasreen, who was forced into a decade-long exile from her native Bangladesh after she appeared to call for the Qur'an to be rewritten because it was 'unfair to women', applied for Indian citizenship last night.

The feminist author Taslima Nasreen, who was forced into a decade-long exile from her native Bangladesh after she appeared to call for the Qur'an to be rewritten because it was "unfair to women", applied for Indian citizenship last night.

The writer, who fled Bangladesh in 1994, has been living in Sweden since she angered Islamist fundamentalists with the publication of her novel Lajja (Shame) 12 years ago.

Ms Nasreen told New Delhi television that she wanted to live in Calcutta, the capital of West Bengal, where she could speak and hear her mother tongue. Her works are banned in Bangladesh, a predominantly Muslim nation.

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