People can't control their emotion: Taslima on vandalisation of statues
March 10, 2018 18:17
Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, while reacting to the vandalisation of statues, has said "people can't control their emotion", but asserted that a defeated party should not be targeted as was the norm in the Middle Ages, in a reference to the razing of communist icon Vladimir Lenin's statues in Tripura.
It is a democracy, and not a Middle Ages war in which the side that used to win, vandalised the defeated side's houses and looted their assets, she said on the sidelines of an event organised by the Reader's Digest.
"That was the norm in the ages of what we call the Dark Ages. But now it is modern times. If any party is defeated, they are not your enemies.... They are just your political opposition," the 55-year-old author told PTI when asked about the recent incidents of vandalising of statues, including that of Lenin.
Nasreen said that if one does not like Lenin, one may not follow his ideology but there was no need to break his statues.
"The ideology of all those people whose statues have been erected, we may not like but we don't break their statues," she said yesterday.
Her comments come after two statues of Lenin were brought down in South Tripura, with the CPI-M and its arch-rival in Bengal, the Trinamool Congress, blaming the BJP for the incidents.
-- PTI
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