JnU students, trader clash leave 5 injured

At least five people, including, a policeman were injured in a clash between Jagannath University students and traders of Patuatuli market in the capital on Sunday following an altercation over purchasing a wrist watch.
The traders alleged that the clash erupted around 1:00pm as a few of the students tried to pay less than the actual price of a wrist watch.
Both groups got into arguments and that three students were beaten by the traders, students and local people said.
Of the three students, Arnov was given medical treatment at a nearby hospital. On information, students from the public university teamed up and marched towards the market.
Police, however, intervened and brought the situation under control, said Kotwali police assistant commissioner, Shahen Shah. A member of police was injured after being hit by a brick chip thrown by the traders, police said.
The university proctor, Noor Muhammad, said that they asked the traders to settle the matter with the students or face legal action.

I have nothing else but India: Taslima Nasrin
New Age Desk
Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin says she had to intentionally defy all bans and threats to return to India despite being forced to leave as she has ‘nothing else but India’, which she hopes will encourage free thought one day, reports The Times of India on Sunday.
She also wishes that neighbouring countries learn from India’s example and be inspired on knowing the meaning of freedom of speech.
She expresses these thoughts in her memoir ‘Exile’, translated from the original Bengali version ‘Nirbasan’ by Maharghya Chakraborty and published by Penguin Random House.
In fact, she wrote ‘Exile’ nearly five years ago.
In the book, Nasrin mentions the series of events during her seven-month struggle ‘leading to my ouster from West Bengal, then Rajasthan and eventually India, my house arrest, and the anxious days I had had to spend in the government safe house, beset by a scheming array of bureaucrats and ministers desperate to see me gone’.
She says she was then like a lone, exiled, dissenting voice against the entire state machinery with only her wits and determination at her disposal.
‘Despite being forced to leave, I have eventually cocked a snook at all the prohibitions and bans and threats, and come back to India. I have come because I have nothing else but India, and because I hope India will one day truly encourage free thought.

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