New Delhi: Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen on Tuesday denied writing an article for a Kannada newspaper which has led to violent protests in Shimoga and Hassan towns and said there has been a "deliberate attempt to malign" her.
Nasreen said in a statement made available to PTI that she had never written an article for the Kannada Prabha newspaper in Karnataka. "The incident that occurred in Karnataka on Monday shocked me. I learned that it was provoked by an article written by me that appeared in a Karnataka newspaper. But I have never written any article for any Karnataka newspaper in my life," she said.
"The appearance of the article is atrocious. In any of my writings I have never mentioned that Prophet Muhammad was against burkha. Therefore this is a distorted story," Nasreen said.
"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."
Kannada Prabha claims the article was reproduced from a book written by Nasreen and printed in its Sunday supplement on February 28.
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