New Delhi: Salman Rushdie will return to India this week to speak at a conference, under two months after death threats forced the Booker Prize-winning author to pull out of Asia's biggest literary festival, the event organiser said on Tuesday. Rushdie's attempt to visit India in January brought protests from some Indian Muslim groups, which consider his 1988 novel 'The Satanic Verses' blasphemous because of the way it portrayed the...
09:59 PM, Mar 13, 2012
Mumbai: Canada-based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta, who is making a film on Salman Rushdie's bestseller 'Midnight's Children', says the author was lied to and discouraged from attending the Jaipur Literature Festival. But she is confident that she would be able to release the movie without any trouble in India. Excerpts from an interview: Q: Your friend and creative collaborator Salman Rushdie was not allowed to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival....
11:49 AM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: Writer Mark Tully on Tuesday slammed the government for not coming clean on the Salman Rushdie issue, saying if someone has offended religion sentiments then there is law to deal with it. "Salman Rushdie should have been allowed to enter in this country because that is the law of the land. Government is not coming clean on the issue from the very begining. This is very sad indeed...
04:54 PM, Jan 24, 2012
The Jaipur Police Commissioner says they've made all possible security arrangements. ...
02:25 PM, Jan 19, 2012
New York: Even as uncertainty looms over Salman Rushdie's appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival, the India-born author himself is not giving any hints about his plans to visit India and has maintained a stoic silence on Twitter where he has been a regular commentator. The 'Midnight's Children' author has logged on to the microblogging site Twitter regularly and commented on various issues, occasionally tweeting several times a day. However...
11:15 AM, Jan 19, 2012
Muzaffarnagar: Opposing controversial author Salman Rushdie's visit to India, Islamic Seminary Darul Uloom Deoband today said the government should cancel his visa as he had hurt religious sentiments of Muslims in the past. 65-year-old Rushdie, who had earned the wrath of Muslims worldwide due to his novel 'The Satanic Verses', is set to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival this month end. "Indian government should cancel his visa as Rushdie had...
05:05 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: Breaking a minor jinx in India which began with last September'a failed Harud Festival in Kashmir, celebrated writer Salman Rushdie will attend the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival Jan 20-24, the organisers said on Tuesday. The writer, who was scheduled to attend the festival last year, had whipped up a storm among the local Kashmiri people who opposed his visit. Rushdie will address a literary session, 'Midnight's Children' named...
11:55 AM, Jan 04, 2012
A few weeks ago Canadian-Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta and her producer husband David Hamilton completed principal photography on Midnight's Children, the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's iconic novel. The film is scheduled for release in late 2012. Reading Stephanie Molen's location report from Sri Lanka, published in the Globe and Mail, I confess I was initially both fascinated and also a little alarmed. It described, among other things, seven cobras...
03:38 PM, Jul 07, 2011
Toronto: India-born Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta has finished shooting for the first film adaption of controversial author Salman Rushdie's 1981 novel 'Midnight's Children' at a secret location in Sri Lanka to keep the fundamentalists at bay. The filming had to be kept ultra-secret, hidden away in Sri Lanka instead of India or Pakistan as both the director and writer of the film are controversial figures. "He's got the Muslims....and I've...
06:38 PM, May 19, 2011
Director Deepa Mehta speaks on her new film
Heaven on Earth. ...
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A Delhi University reader relives her meeting with the master storyteller. ...
03:30 PM, Jul 16, 2008
Midnight's Children beat out other literary masterpieces. ...
12:39 PM, Jul 11, 2008
Midnight's Children has won the Booker Prize and the Booker of Bookers. ...
05:19 PM, Jul 10, 2008
Author of
Midnight's Children leads five other novelists in race. ...
11:21 PM, Jul 09, 2008
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