KOLKATA, Aug. 1 -- Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen landed in Kolkata on Friday, more than 18 years after she was forced to leave the city after violent protests over her writings, to attend a literary event. "I am feeling very happy. Thank you all," the 63-year-old told reporters at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport. The author, who has been living in Delhi on a long-term residence permit for over a decade, is on a two-day visit to Kolkata for an anti-fundamentalism literary event on Saturday. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari and West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya are also expected to attend the event. "I can't believe that I am in Kolkata now. I was driven out in 2007. Initially I had thought that I will be able to return. Kolkata is a progressive city. But as years passed, I had a feeling that I may never be able to return. But then Osman Gani Mallik of Secular Mission invited me to Kolkata. He made all the arrangements," she said in an TV interview. Nasreen was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1994 after she received death threats over her writings and the book Lajja, which depicted atrocities faced by a Hindu family in Bangladesh in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition. She moved to Europe and received a Swedish passport. In 2007, Muslim organisations accused her of insulting the religion in her autobiographical work, Dwikhandito. Riots erupted and the army had to be deployed. The Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-government asked her to leave Kolkata. She left on November 21, 2007. "I want to forget everything. I am happy that even though I am not being able to return to one Bengal (Bangladesh), I could return to the other Bengal (West Bengal)," she said....