The planned launch of an Indian television serial scripted by a Bangladeshi-feminist author living in exile has been scrapped after several Muslim groups demanded that her writings be banned.
Dussahobas (Miserable Life Together), a Bengali serial written by Taslima Nasreen, was to go on air on Thursday, but the TV channel behind the programme was forced to defer its plan after local police said the serial could stir unrest.
“In her writings, she routinely seeks to ridicule Islam and vilify our revered Prophet Mohammed. In this serial, she might come up with something to show Islam in bad light again,” Syed Mohammad Noorur Rahman Barkati, the Shahi Imam (custodian) of the Tipu Sultan mosque in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, told Al Jazeera. [Al Jazeera English] Read more
