you are here: Home /
 

Taslima in trouble again, this time Nepali's offended with tweet

By Monitoring Desk
Updated Monday, 22 August 2011 15:08:38 - IST (UTC +5:30)

New Delhi; Bad mouth Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin who has been sheltering in since 1994, is again in trouble, this time by here careless remark on tweet that angered Nepal. The author was to arrive in Kathmandu on Saturday to attend the country’s first literature festival, but a post on Twitter has ensured she won’t come visiting anytime soon. The organizers who invited her have now communicated her that she is now unwanted persona.
Nasrin who currently resides in New Delhi missed her flight to Kathmandu on Saturday as she did not bring her Swedish passport. Airport authorities didn’t let her board the flight.
"My Nepali friends, I missed my flight to go to Kathmandu today. I forgot to bring my passport as I didn’t consider Nepal a foreign country!" she soon wrote on her Twitter page.
The comment offended many of her Nepali friends on the micro-blogging site who ridiculed her lack of knowledge about world geography and blamed her of thinking that Nepal was a part of India.
Nasrin was shocked and hurt that her Nepali friends were offended by her "feeling of closeness 2 (to) Nepal".
Undeterred she planned to arrive here on Sunday to take part in the last day of the festival but that also had to be shelved due to adverse reaction to the tweet and concerns about her safety.
Organizers of the festival asked Nasrin to cancel her trip as they didn’t want any controversy and were unable to guarantee her the kind of security she had sought to make an appearance.
"Many Nepalis were offended by her comment and some were planning to hold protests. We were worried about her safety and asked her to cancel the trip,” festival director Ajit Baral told HT.
The literature festival modeled on the popular Jaipur literature festival has witnessed the biggest gathering of Nepali writers and others like former BBC India bureau chief Mark Tully and novelist Ira Trivedi.
Meanwhile Nasrin tweeted--"I’ll always love you, Nepal. I’ll long for the touch of your hand. I’ll wait to see your beauty I haven’t seen yet,"---that wait could now be a long one

Tags: Monitoring Desk Tasleema Nasrin, Napali\'s angered

  • MUMBAI: The last time Muslims and Dalits created a joint political platform in Maharashtra was in the 1980s. Led by former smuggler and don Haji Mastan, the Dalit Muslim Suraksha Mahasangh (DMSM)...

    2012-05-07 17:11:22 |
    0 comments
  • MUMBAI: Chemical analysis of a powder-like substance collected from a Byculla apartment where two suspected Pakistani 13/7 bombers stayed has proved that it is the deadly explosive RDX. The...

    2012-05-03 17:34:23 |
    0 comments
  • Srinagar : For Abdul Rashid Khan, it has been a long wait for justice. Twelve years after his father Juma Khan was allegedly picked from his house, killed in a fake encounter and dubbed a foreign...

    2012-05-03 17:30:23 |
    0 comments
  • New Delhi : The Supreme Court gave the Army full “discretion” to choose between a court martial and a criminal trial for seven officers accused of killing five persons in an encounter in...

    2012-05-03 17:27:07 |
    0 comments
  • New Delhi. Syed Ghulam Akber, member Markazi Majlis-e-Shoora (Central Advisory Council) and former Secretary Jamaat-e-Islami Hind breathed his last at Care Hospital in Hyderabad at about 1 p.m....

    2012-04-30 20:38:08 |
    0 comments
  • Government responsible for Communal Violence in Hyderabad city RSS outfits Communalizing the situation and polarizing population by developing Communal Sentiments. Introduce and pass Communal...

    2012-04-25 11:01:25 |
    0 comments
  • Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari administered oath to eleven new ministers today. In all five federal ministers and six ministers of state were inducted in federal cabinet. The size of the...

    2012-04-14 19:42:01 |
    0 comments
  • Islamabad/New Delhi: President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to allow the release and repatriation on humanitarian grounds of Khalil Chishti, an 80-year-old...

    2012-04-13 23:46:33 |
    0 comments
  • Attari (Amritsar), Wagah Border: Extending airport-like facilities for cross-border passengers and cargo movement, India today said it has approved a liberal visa regime for people of Pakistan, as...

    2012-04-13 23:43:48 |
    0 comments
  • Islamabad: Amid growing speculations about Hina Rabbani Khar being removed as Foreign Minister, the Prime Minister’s House clarified late on Tuesday night that no such change was in the offing....

    2012-04-11 19:59:03 |
    0 comments
  • WASHINGTON: Less than a year ago, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited India and declared that the relationship between the world’s two largest democracies would shape the 21st...

    2012-04-10 21:47:28 |
    0 comments
  • GENEVA: Hinduja Group's Swiss-based private banking arm is able to continue providing financing to trading houses shipping food to Iran, its chief executive told reporters, despite difficulties in...

    2012-04-10 21:44:59 |
    0 comments
  • New Delhi: After almost a decade, Indian basmati rice exporters have now started direct shipments to Iran. This follows the operationalisation of a new payment mechanism that allows importers...

    2012-04-10 21:40:42 |
    0 comments
  • BEIJING: China has welcomed Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's trip to India and the improvement in India-Pakistan ties. "China is glad to see the improvement in India-Pakistan relations...

    2012-04-10 13:56:04 |
    0 comments
  • New Delhi: The Indian media has welcomed Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's talks with PM Manmohan Singh on a rare visit to India on Sunday. One newspaper said the "real test" for the two...

    2012-04-09 11:40:22 |
    0 comments
  • LAHORE: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has expressed the hope that ties with India will improve after President Asif Ali Zardari’s visit and said that ‘a fresh team’ will carry forward...

    2012-04-09 11:08:56 |
    0 comments