Bengali poet claims freedom of expression under growing threat

Bengali poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay, whose presence at a literary event in Assam's Silchar created a controversy, on Sunday alleged that freedom of expression in the country is under "increasing threat".

Bandyopadhyay, who was at Silchar in Barak Valley, to attend a literary discussion on Saturday evening, faced protests from a group for his 2017 poem