KOLKATA, July 28: Award-winning Bengali-language writer Samaresh Majumdar said on Monday he had been denied a visa to visit Bangladesh because he wrote a novel in which he claimed Indian separatists have set up bases in the country.
Majumdar, whose novel, “Eto Rokto Keno” (“Bloodshed, Why?”), centres on the abduction of a Bengali doctor by separatist guerillas, said he had been hoping to leave for Dhaka on Monday at the invitation of a writers’ forum in Bangladesh.
In the book, he alleges that the separatists are operating from camps set up in Bangladesh.—AFP
Read more
On DawnNews
Dear visitor, the comments section is undergoing an overhaul and will return soon.