Sanjoy Roy, the organiser of the Jaipur Film Festival also said that it was not enough to provide relief to Ashis Nandy by telling the police to not arrest him. The courts needed to do more, he said. ...
03:43 PM, Feb 01, 2013
CNN-IBN has accessed intelligence reports linking Pakistan's ISI to the recent killings of the two Indian soldiers on the Line of Control, resulting in tensions between the two countries. ...
10:16 PM, Jan 29, 2013
In this special discussion, a panel of writers from India and Pakistan talk about the growing intolerance in various section of Indian society and India-Pakistan relations. ...
11:52 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Ashis Nandy faces up to five years in jail after an FIR was filed against him following his remarks on Dalits at the Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
11:01 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Socialist Ashis Nandy kicked up a storm when he said SCs, STs and OBCs are responsible for corruption in the country. ...
10:41 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Condemning sociologist Ashis Nandy's controversial remark against SC, ST and OBC, National Commission for Scheduled Castes chairman PL Punia on Monday said that he is disgraced people with his comment and should be arrested. ...
03:45 PM, Jan 28, 2013
Rahul Dravid was at the Jaipur Literature Festival. He was speaking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
08:55 AM, Jan 27, 2013
Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off this week but not without controversy. A group of Islamic clerics has protested the presence of any of the authors who read from the 'Satanic Verses' last year, while the RSS and BJP are reportedly asking for Pakistani participants to be kept out. ...
07:44 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Sources in the Rajasthan Police said that members of the BJP and the RSS in the state were opposing the participation in the event by seven Pakistani authors. ...
06:08 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Rushdie was given permission to address the Jaipur Lit fest through video link but was forced to cancel the appearance after protests. ...
11:53 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Catch the day's top stories on India at 9 with Rajdeep Sardesai. ...
11:47 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Lawyer Akhil Sibal, AIMPLB member-lawyer Zafaryab Jilani and social activist Shabnam Hashmi discuss the Salman Rushdie video conference row. ...
10:04 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said on Tuesday that the media was losing a sense of proportion and balance in the Salman Rushdie video conference issue. "We are losing a sense of proportion and balance in this issue. It is not such a great issue for us to exercise over minds over. The government of India never banned his (Rushdie's) visit. Video-link was stopped by the organisers of the festival." ...
09:21 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Human rights activist Kavita Srivastava on Tuesday condemned the organisations which disrupted Salman Rushdie's video link that was supposed to take place at 3.45 PM. Slamming the Jaipur-based Milli Council, she said the threat to the author and the Lit Fest was very disturbing. ...
09:09 PM, Jan 24, 2012
In the ongoing Rushdie row at the Jaipur Literature Festival, actor Rahul Bose drew attention to the limitations in the Constitution concerning freedom of expression in the country. "We need to take a look at 'Freedom of Speech' under the Constitution of India. We need to campaign for change," he said. ...
08:52 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said she did not want to get into a controversy and that Delhi welcomes everyone. ...
08:51 PM, Jan 24, 2012
CNN-IBN's Sagarika Ghose and writer Anurag Anand discuss the row over Salman Rushdie's video link cancellation. ...
07:05 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Actress Konkona Sen said that she was disappointed, but not surprised by the cancellation of Rushdie's video link. ...
05:59 PM, Jan 24, 2012
People at the festival, who had come for Salman Rushdie's video conference were angry over the cancellation of the link. ...
05:31 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Rajasthan Home Secretary GS Sandhu said that the government had given clearance and had no role in the cancellation of Rushdie's video link. ...
05:09 PM, Jan 24, 2012
