Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen’s visa was extended for a year by the Home Ministry on Friday. The decision has been taken following an intervention of Home Minister Rajnath Singh as Ms. Nasreen has been requesting the Indian government to further extend her visa.
The 52-year-old writer’s visa was granted for a year with effect from July 23, a Home Ministry official said.
Ms. Nasreen living in exile since she left Bangladesh in a cloak of secrecy in 1994 in the wake of threats to her by fundamentalist groups, was given a one-year visa by the government in 2014.
Ms. Nasreeb, a citizen of Sweden, has been getting Indian visa on a continuous basis since 2004. She has also stayed in the U.S. and Europe in the last two decades. However, on many occasions she had expressed her wish to live in India permanently, especially in Kolkata.
