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KOLKATA: No person in a cosmopolitan society has the right to hurt the sentiments of a certain section in the name of intellectual freedom, West Bengal Assembly Speaker Hashim Abdul Halim said here on Friday, regarding the controversy surrounding Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen.
“As an intellectual you have the right to write… but you have no right to hurt other people’s sentiments,” he said, at an interactive session organised by the Calcutta Citizens’ Initiative. “Now she has deleted certain portions of her book that was earlier banned by the government…why didn’t she do this earlier?” he added...Read...
“As an intellectual you have the right to write… but you have no right to hurt other people’s sentiments,” he said, at an interactive session organised by the Calcutta Citizens’ Initiative. “Now she has deleted certain portions of her book that was earlier banned by the government…why didn’t she do this earlier?” he added...Read...