2 February 2012, 10:17 pm
William Dalrymple writes about the Salman Rushdie controversy.... Read More »
25 January 2012, 3:47 am
A stream of messages that, like Gibreel Farishta, the author dreamed he had written.... Read More »
24 January 2012, 11:02 am
JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - A video-link speech by Salman Rushdie to Asia's largest literature festival was cancelled minutes before it was due to begin on Tuesday because of death threats to the organizers and fears of riots by Muslim groups. Rushdie's 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses" is banne... Read More »
24 January 2012, 12:27 am
JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - The director of Asia's largest literature festival received a death threat hours before Salman Rushdie was set to address the event on Tuesday, though organisers confirmed that the author would still speak using a video link. The issue of British-Indian author Rushdie, ... Read More »
23 January 2012, 11:50 pm
JAIPUR, India (AFP) - British author Salman Rushdie was due to speak by video link to a literature festival in India on Tuesday after an apparent threat to his life by mafia hitmen forced him to pull out in person.... Read More »
23 January 2012, 4:45 pm
JAIPUR, India, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Indian-born author Salman Rushdie says he believes police lied to him about hit men having been hired to kill him if he attended the Jaipur literary festival.... Read More »
23 January 2012, 10:03 am
Thick with palaces, elephants and crowded old bazaars, the Pink City of Jaipur is a postcard from ‘exotic India’ brought vividly to life. Its annual literary festival may be only six years old, but it tries to live up to its setting, adding 21st century flash and dazzle to the mix. This year did... Read More »
22 January 2012, 9:51 pm
JAIPUR, India -- At an old Mughal palace accommodating what organizers called "the greatest literary show on earth," the headliners on Sunday included Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra and Tom Stoppard. But the absence of another star, Salman Rushdie, continued to overshadow the event.... Read More »
22 January 2012, 2:27 am
Author Salman Rushdie now believes police lied to him about a threat to his life to keep him away from India's largest literary festival.... Read More »
19 January 2012, 8:03 pm
JAIPUR, India (AFP) - India's biggest literary festival opened on Friday in the absence of star guest Salman Rushdie, whose planned appearance has triggered threats of protests by some Muslim groups.... Read More »
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