Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen will be granted residential visa by the Indian government.
The controversial author said this after her meeting with Indian Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday, reports Times of India.
"I met Singh today (Saturday) and he assured me that my stay in India will be extended. I gave him my book Wo Andhere Din (Those Dark Days) and in return he said my dark days are over," Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), a private Indian news agency quoted Taslima.
Earlier in the day, she met Rajnath Singh to request the Home Minister to extend her stay in India for longer than 2 months.
The 51-year-old writer had applied for a resident permit and the Home Ministry granted her the same type of visa but only for two months starting from August 1.
Following her outburst on a social networking site, support for her has been pouring from various quarters with Press Council of India Chairperson and former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju demanding permanent visa for the 51-year-old who has been living in exile since 1994.
Taslima, however, expressed her surprise over intellectuals from Kolkata - her "home" remaining silent on the issue.
The author has been living in self exile since 1994 in the wake of death threats by Muslim fundamentalist outfits of Bangladesh.
Taslima is now a citizen of Sweden. She has been continuously getting Indian visa since 2004.