Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin will return to Kolkata after 19 years to attend a literary meet at Rabindra Sadan on August 1. Reacting to it, BJP West Bengal President Samik Bhattacharya said, "I had told...government to bring Taslima...to Bengal. Why would the voice of Taslima...be suppressed?" Notably, she was forced to leave Kolkata in November 2007 following violent protests.