who stands for Taslima?

A woman, ever chased by the muslim fundamentalists in her own country, with a fatwa on her head; came to India thinking of its secular credentials, thinking that it's the place where she can relate to her characters of fictions, assuming that this is the only nation where the freedom of expression is still jeously guarded, but to her utter dismay all her assumptions about India shattered with the recent goings in her host country. When a handful of hooligans indulged in rampage in the intellectual city of Kolkata holding the city into ransom, the so called saviour of secularism i.e. left front government of westbengal was quick to force taslima to fly Rajstan so that the violence can be diffused. The tale doesn't stop here. Rajstan government who was informed of Taslima's arrival at the last moment, showed their reluctance to play host to the writer for a long time. so, in a save facing operation, Taslima was taken to Delhi where after a short stay in Rajstan house, she was put in high security zone of NSG guest house. politics has the beauty of starting everything after the issue just like Indian cops. so, in a dramatic turn around, Narendra bhai, Gujurat C.M. came to the rescue of Taslima offering to play host for Taslima. Seeing, the situation slipping form the hand of left government, Buddhadeb babu said that he was never averse to the idea of the writer staying in the state, welcoming Taslima to the state. But, what is most astonishing is Pranab Mukherji's statement in the Parliament. He gave the statement that though the guests were allowed to live in India with tranquility, they should avoid expressing those sentiments which might hurt any specific community. So, literally he asked Taslima to shut up but up course in a nicer way. Now, under the pressure of fundamentalists and seeing that no credible source is coming forward to resuce her of this conundrum, she gave her assent to delete those lines of his book "Dwikhandita", which are supposed to be pinching the Muslim community. One can imagine what the kind of pain she must be undergoing when she has decided to delete few lines from her book. It's just like asking the mother to rip the body parts of her baby.
Whatever may be the happenings but it shows one thing i.e. the profoundness of Indian hypocrisy espcially of its polity and how come everything becomes a ploy for Indian politicians to take maximum political mileage. It goes beyond the very ideals on which Indian democracy stands . Gone are those days, when Dalai lama was not only greeted to stay in India but also given the freedom of venting his anguish. When India can afford to have bitter reltionship with China in the light of the consistent diatribes from the Buddhist monk, why it is so intolerant about Taslima case? How the two cases differ? Is that something more than India's committment to freedom of expression? this questions naturally poke into one's brain.
An indepth analysis points towards the fact that in this case politics overpowered democratic ideals. Firstly, when the issue of renewing Taslima's visa is not that grave in west bengal politics, why All India Minority Forum took out the protest rally at that particular juncture. Is there any relationship between the stand off between Left front and Congress in the centre over the civil nuclear deal? is this an act of provokation by Mamata or Congress to mess up the matter further after Nandigram controversy? no body knows. Further speaking, how come Left govt. who vehemently opposed any attack on freedom of expression beforehand like- ransacking M.F.Hussain's potrait by hindu zealots, Indore university issue; why not it took a different line up here? Also, watch out for Modi's reaction on the issue. It seems Modi is trying to further polarise the Gujurat society on the name of Muslim bashing. so, in this process, he is ready to accept anything which is anti-muslim or which muslims atleast oppose. othwise, whose human rights credentials are next to Shirin Abidi, how can he be the protector of anyone's freedom of expression. also, it's the land of gujurat, where Modi happily connived with the VHP workers to attack the student of Indore University for his paintings on Lord Shiva. Congress is no better than these two parties. When the central government is trying to discharge its constitutional duties, it doesn't also try to send any wrong signal to its Muslim voters. so Pranab Mukharjee's statement are on the expected line. When he vowed to protect the writer, at the same time perhaps he is against taslima's writing. So the inference is taslima will stay here but writing romances of Bollywood than to pen down anything about women issues.
India may boast itself as the largest democracy of the world but, it seems the holder of this democracy i.e. the political parties can dedicate everything for power may it be their own country one day.