Click to play videoJaipur: Noted author and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie will not break any law with his video address at the Jaipur Literature Festival, organisers said on Tuesday.
Jaipur Literature Festival organiser Sanjoy Roy said that they will go ahead with the video link with Salman Rushdie at 3:45 pm on Tuesday and will continue for one hour. Roy said that the video link will be according to the law and Rushdie will speak on his book 'Midnight's Children'.
"We received information from the state government that there is no requirement of permission to be taken for this. We always had the intention that any conversation in this space will be done in accordance with the law of the land," said Roy.
He expressed satisfaction that the controversy surrounding Rushdie and the video link has been put to rest.
Roy said that session will only focus on 'Midnight's Children' and not on any banned works of Rushdie. He added that it will be within the parameters of Indian laws. The session will also focus on the life and times of Rushdie, but the author will not take any questions.
Maintaining that there was a "credible threat" to Rushdie if he came for the Literature Festival, the organisers said, "According to what we know and what we share with us there was a credible threat. I can't evaluate the threat. It was the information we received which we shared with Salman Rushdie. We did get some intelligence inputs through the state government which we shared with Salman Rushdie."
He also said that the state government did not ask for any undertaking related to Rushdie's video address.
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