Taslima Nasreen returns to Kolkata after 19 years, calls it a homecoming for free speech

Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen returned to Kolkata on July 31 after 19 years. She said, "I feel as though I am returning to my own country." The writer, forced to leave in 2007, will make her first public appearance on August 1, marking a symbolic victory for free speech.