Nigerian writer Ben Okri expressed his grief on Salman Rushdie's inability to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
08:19 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Jaipur: Best-selling Indian writer Chetan Bhagat on Saturday criticised the support leant to authors whose books are banned for offending religious communities, a day after Salman Rushdie cancelled his trip to Jaipur citing death threat warning. Bhagat, whose five novels have sold around 6 million copies, condemned the banning of texts at the Jaipur Literature Festival but criticised people who proclaim their writers as heroes for upholding the right to...
12:31 AM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: Salman Rushdie's absence at the Jaipur Literature Festival has turned into a full-blown political battle, with the BJP alleging that the entire controversy has been created keeping UP election in mind, while All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has demanded that the readers of 'The Satanic Verses' should be arrested. "The Salman Rushdie controversy is being made an issue because of the UP elections....
12:15 AM, Jan 22, 2012
Police sources, however, said that they had no intelligence regarding any underworld plot to attack Salman Rushdie. ...
10:08 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Amy Chua, author of 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,' the book which focuses on parenting was published in 2011 evoked positive as well as negative reactions. ...
09:16 PM, Jan 21, 2012
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday lashed out at the authors who read from the The Satanic Verses at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival, condemning the act as blasphemous. Authors Hari Kunzru and Amitava Kumar had on Friday read out passages from the book as a way of registering their protest over Rushdie's absence from the Festival before the organisers stopped them. An hour ...
07:28 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Jaipur: Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lankan author of 'Chinaman' wins the DSC Literature Prize for South Asia worth 50 thousand dollars. Ira Pande, chairperson of the jury said, "The winner was chosen last night unanimously by the jury, it just took us half an hour to decide who deserves this prize." The jury for this year's $ 50,000 prize included renowned literary figures Dr Alastair Niven, Dr Fakrul Alam, Faiza S...
06:32 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Pulitzer award winning writer and journalist, Joseph Lelyveld had come under fire in India for 2011 his book 'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India.' Here's the writer on the book, the controversy and of course, Salman Rushdie. ...
06:21 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Writer and lyricist Prasoon Joshi spoke in reaction to the Rushdie episode. ...
06:16 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Writer-diplomat Pavan Varma talks about Rushdie's absence from the festival and why we need to look at this from a different perspective, especially as compared to the MF Husain case. ...
06:11 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Bollywood actress and author Deepti Naval who is present at the Jaipur Literature Festival said a ban of any kind on any creative person is not acceptable. ...
05:41 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Noted writer Namita Devidayal expressed deep shock at Rushdie not being able to attend the festival. ...
05:23 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Writer Jaishree Misra says she expected Salman Rushdie to not attend the Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
05:18 PM, Jan 21, 2012
William Dalrymple, co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival talks about Rushdie's work and expresses his desire to see Rushdie attend the festival in the coming years. ...
05:07 PM, Jan 21, 2012
William Dalrymple, co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival talks about Rushdie's work and expresses his desire to see Rushdie attend the festival in the coming years. ...
05:07 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Pulitzer prize winner David Remnick speaks about Barack Obama's biography and Salman Rushdie's absence from the Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
01:37 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Mumbai: Adding a new twist to the controversy over Salman Rushdie's participation in the Jaipur Literature Festival, sources in Mumbai Police denied giving any inputs about paid assassins. The sources countered the Booker-winning author's claim that paid assassins were out to get him. The sources told CNN-IBN there were no intelligence inputs about a threat to Rushdie and that they gave no inputs regarding paid assassins eyeing Rushdie. BJP Leader...
12:23 PM, Jan 21, 2012
Jaipur: The controversy over celebrated author Salman Rushdie's participation in the Jaipur Literature Festival has refused to die down. The organisers have now distanced themselves from authors who read Rushdie's banned book 'Satanic Verses' as a mark of protest on Friday. Talking to CNN-IBN, festival producer Sanjoy Roy said, "We have no doubt the authors did it in the best of intentions in the best possible way. As organisers, unfortunately,...
10:55 AM, Jan 21, 2012
Jaipur: The suspense over Salman Rushdie's participation in the Jaipur Literature Festival ended on Friday, but the row over his absence didn't. Authors Hari Kunzru and Amitava Kumar read out a passage from his banned book the 'Satanic Verses' to lodge their protest over Rushdie's absence before they were stopped by the organisers of the festival. An hour later, writer Ruchir Joshi and poet Jeet Thayil repeated the act of...
07:27 AM, Jan 21, 2012
