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

It is in this offering that Nasrin, perhaps for the first time, has come out to openly chronicle her struggles in India over a period of seven months. Armed with a fatwa from their religious ideologues, on November 22, 2007, a virulent mob demanded that Taslima Nasrin leave Kolkata immediately. This inextricable nexus of "petty political conspiracies, vote bank politics and minority appeasement" marked her last days in Kolkata.The book narrates the horrors of a writer-in-exile, who despite having a permanent residence permit in the United States and Swedish citizenship, decided to settle down and live in Kolkata. Taking a dig at the then political establishment in West Bengal, Nasrin shockingly reveals that everything she was made to go through was a result of "vote bank politics".