BANGLADESHI writer Taslima Nasreen said on Tuesday her work had been 'misused' by an Indian newspaper after an article purportedly from her sparked protests by Muslims that left two dead.
On Sunday a local Kannada-language newspaper in the southern state of Karnataka published an article allegedly from the exiled author, who has provoked hardline Muslims before, in which she argued against the burqa.
Police imposed a curfew on Tuesday in Shimoga town, 270 kilometres west of state capital Bangalore, after two people were killed in protests that saw hundreds of Muslims take to the streets. One person was shot dead by police on Monday, while another was killed in clashes that broke out. Fifteen people were injured and 50 arrested, police said.
'The appearance of the article is atrocious,' Nasreen said in a statement sent to local news agency PTI. 'In any of my writings I have never mentioned that Prophet Mohammed was against the burqa.'
She denied ever having written for the newspaper, adding: 'I suspect that it is a deliberate attempt to malign me and to misuse my writings to create disturbance in the society. I wish peace will prevail.'
Police said the streets of Shimoga were tense but peaceful on Tuesday. 'A curfew has been imposed until Wednesday evening,' Shimoga police chief S. Murugan told AFP by telephone, adding that 'the situation is under control now'.
- Indian Journalist.
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