The author has clarified that she has not left India permanently and will return when she feels safe.

Controversial Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has been relocated to the US from India after death threats by Islamists radicals from her country where three secular bloggers were hacked to death since February.

“Was threatened by Islamists who killed atheist bloggers in B’desh. Worried. Wanted to meet GOI (Government of India). No appointment. Left. Will be back when feel safe,” Ms. Nasreen tweeted.

“Because of the very real danger to her life, Taslima has decided to leave India. For the indefinite future, to preserve her life, she will need to stay in the United States — where she currently has no job or home,” said Ronald A Lindsay, President & CEO of New York-based advocacy group Center for Inquiry, who has helped her in the relocation.

Mr. Lindsay said that these death threats should be taken very seriously as three writers have been viciously murdered in three months. “We at the Center for Inquiry are doing all we can to keep her out of harm’s way,” he added.

The 52—year—old controversial writer from Bangladesh has been living in exile since 1994 in the wake of death threats by Muslim fundamentalist outfits.

Taslima, now a citizen of Sweden, has been continuously getting Indian visa since 2004.

The writer had to leave Kolkata in 2007 following violent street protests by a section of Muslims against her works.

I havn’t left India permanently. Indian govt always provides security,” Ms. Nasreen, whose books like Lajja and Dwikhandito have attracted the ire of fundamentalists, said in another tweet.