The Independent - London, March 25th, 1994
From Dr Abhijit Guha
Sir: Shehabuddin Ahmed, the minister of press for the High Commission of Bangladesh, insists (letter, 21 March) that the Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen lives in a luxury apartment which cannot be called a "cage". But the word "cage" in the article he was replying to metaphorically referred to the restricted movement and the constant anxiety of the writer living under physical threats, not to any lack of affluence.
Mr Ahmed reports that her residence is "a property no poet of her age in Bangladesh could ever dream of buying". Does this indicate that Ms Nasreen has any...
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