Pics:Taslima Nasrin's latest memoir a tribute to Kolkata

Meanwhile, Kolkata also embraced the writer-in-exile with open arms. Her life, at that point of time, was synonymous with those who had spent decades living in the great city. "A Bengali newspaper in the morning, a Bengali magazine or a book in the afternoon, the evening adda in Bengali or a boisterous and noisy Bengali dinner at night" made her feel "as if I belonged to the city, that I was not from a different land".