Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Taslima again
Bangladeshi writer-activist Taslima Nasreen Tuesday said she never wrote an article on the Islamic veil that triggered widespread rioting and arson in Karnataka, killing two, and suspected it was an attempt to malign her.
Professor Shamim Hanafi, who teaches history at the Jamia Millia Islamia, refused to comment on the controversy. “But I have read Nasreen’s work. Frankly speaking, she is not a very remarkable writer. I have not been very impressed by her.”
IMO: I have no idea as to the literary merits of Taslima. It looks to me like complex problems within the Kannada-speaking media. Taslima's problems sound like those of Sri Ram Sena, referred to earlier, but whose standpoint is clearly quite different. In fact it seems that the Kannada media have used in an unauthorised fashion, some excerpts from some earlier writings of Taslima. This could have been yet another deliberate attempt by local Kannada media to create newsworthy situations such as riots, and at the same time smear Taslima. Taslima's alleged comments sound rational but ill timed, of course. One wonders about the basis of the Telegana situation in the case of incompetent and corrupt media.
Professor Shamim Hanafi, who teaches history at the Jamia Millia Islamia, refused to comment on the controversy. “But I have read Nasreen’s work. Frankly speaking, she is not a very remarkable writer. I have not been very impressed by her.”
IMO: I have no idea as to the literary merits of Taslima. It looks to me like complex problems within the Kannada-speaking media. Taslima's problems sound like those of Sri Ram Sena, referred to earlier, but whose standpoint is clearly quite different. In fact it seems that the Kannada media have used in an unauthorised fashion, some excerpts from some earlier writings of Taslima. This could have been yet another deliberate attempt by local Kannada media to create newsworthy situations such as riots, and at the same time smear Taslima. Taslima's alleged comments sound rational but ill timed, of course. One wonders about the basis of the Telegana situation in the case of incompetent and corrupt media.
# posted by uv : 4:06 PM
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