In an express warning to controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, the United Nationalist Progress Alliance (UNPA), a confederation of regional parties, on November 24 said she should desist from attacking any religion and apologise for what she has written in her book, if she wants to stay here in peace.

“If she wants to stay in peace and let others stay in peace, she should say sorry for what she has written and must not repeat the kind of utterances she has bee...

Everyone has the right to free speech and writing. So has everyone the right to express his/her view in the public. But no constitution in the world has granted its citizens the right to abuse, ridicule and lampoon any prophet, great personality, ideology or religion through his/her writings or cartoons. Nor has anyone the right to create vandalism in the name of protest. The problem starts only when one exceeds the limit.

Taslima Nasreen and Salman Rushdie know these facts ver...