‘As long as both Hindu and Muslim extremists abuse me, I'm fine’

After an event in Kolkata was cancelled over lyricist-poet

Javed Akhtar

being invited, writer Taslim Nasreen wrote on X about how he had once helped organise her book launch in Mumbai in 2000 despite religious groups threatening violence.
“Today, however, there is no Javed Akhtar to bring Javed Akhtar to Kolkata and defeat the fundamentalists,” she wrote in the post.