Taslima face language fire

Taslima Nasreen has come under fire for saying the Bengali used in Bangladesh IS 'not the real language but just a distorted dialect'.

Social Media Deskbdnews24.com
Published : 23 March 2015, 06:09 PM
Updated : 23 March 2015, 06:14 PM

In a Facebook posting, she says : “The difference between my publishers in West Bengal and those in Bangladesh is that those in West Bengal correct the wrong spellings in my manuscript while those in Bangladesh render the correct spellings wrongly.”
 

“It is better to call the language used in Bangladesh as Bangladeshi and not Bengali,” said Nasreen, who has recently managed to get a residential permit for stay in India.
She has been living abroad, mostly in India, after she fled Bangladesh when Islamist radicals issued death threats against her in the 1990s.
Essayist Samiullah Khan described Nasreen's posting as something only a 'sick person' could do.
“Nobody with a knowledge of Bengali language would come up with such nonsense.”
“I don’t accept what Nasreen says. Bengali as a language originated in what is presently Bangladesh,” Begum Akter Kamal, chairperson of the Bangla department of Dhaka University, told bdnews24.com on Monday.