Jaipur Festival: Dalrymple gets death threat as Rushdie speech looms

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, who cancelled his visit to the festival due to assassination threats, has overshadowed the event ...... Read More »

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