An Indian court Thursday lifted a ban on a book by exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen in which she wrote about her sexual relations with Indian writers while living in India.
The ban was imposed by a court in November 2003 following a defamation suit filed by Kolkata-based poet Syed Hasmat Jalal, who challenged her claim about a sexual liaison with him. The book, her fourth, named several other Indian and Bangladeshi intellectuals.
Later that year, the 395-page Bengali-language book titled "Dwikhandito," which translates as "Split In Two", was banned by the Indian state of West Bengal on the grounds it hurt Muslim sentiments and was slanderous.