When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sheikh Hasina's government is one of the best Bangladesh has ever had. She is taking action against fundamentalists. But even she refused to let me return. I don't think I can ever return home.
However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home.
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.
My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there.
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
I am asking the state of Israel to revoke my citizenship. This wish for revocation of citizenship is neither new nor recent. Now, however, it is supported by the new Revocation of Citizenship Law.
I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.
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