The Jaipur Literature festival began on Thursday under heavy security with Pakistani authors attending the programme as scheduled. Controversy surrounded the festival again this year with the Bharatiya Janata Party's youth-wing protesting against the participation of Pakistani authors following tension at the Line of Control. ...
11:56 AM, Jan 24, 2013
Amidst reports of threat to the Jaipur Literature Festival by Islamist groups and reportedly by members of the BJP and the RSS, the organiser of the event, Sanjoy Roy has said that the event will be held as per the schedule. ...
03:58 PM, Jan 21, 2013
A statement warning the organisers of the Jaipur Literature Festival against allowing authors who had read out passages from Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' at the event last year was issued by Islamist groups on Sunday. ...
01:10 PM, Jan 21, 2013
Aweek is a long time in politics"and eight months is enough time for the title of Ruchir Joshi's book to be turned into a mordant, cruel joke. Poriborton! (Change) chronicles Mamata Banerjee's stunning success in the 2011 Assembly elections, when her one-woman party emphatically threw the Left Front out of power after 34 years. Yet, it already seems a lifetime ago"the easy dating a pointer to how swiftly, in some...
02:50 PM, Mar 23, 2012
Festival fatigue has indeed set in, but I must remember not to keep asking people if the massive crowds leave them feeling wiped out! The ...
12:52 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Author Ruchir Joshi on Monday said that he does not regret reading out extracts from Salman Rushdie's banned book 'The Satanic Verses' at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Talking to IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai on Talking Point, Joshi said that he was even ready to do it again if required. "There's nothing in the law that prohibits people reading from a banned book," Joshi said. "Rushdie's constitutional rights are...
11:40 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Jaipur: Amidst reports that the Rajasthan police planned to deny permission to author Salman Rushdie for his video conference on Tuesday at 3:45 PM at the ongoing Jaipur Literature Festival, festival producer Sanjoy Roy said that he had no information about the whole issue and that they will go ahead with the video-conference as scheduled, till they get any written confirmation from the police. He said that the festival organisers...
05:31 PM, Jan 23, 2012
The four writers who read excerpts from 'The Satanic Verses' left the Jaipur Fest amidst speculation that they may be arrested. ...
03:45 PM, Jan 23, 2012
Jaipur: Booker Prize winning author Salman Rushdie will address the Jaipur Literature Festival via video conference on Tuesday. Rushdie will address the Jaipur Festival at 3.45 pm on Tuesday. Rushdie had decided against attending the Literature Festival in person, claiming that he was informed by intelligence sources in Maharasthra and Rajasthan that paid hitmen from the Mumbai underworld were out to "eliminate" him if he came to India. Rushdie had...
11:21 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Jaipur: The Salman Rushdie row refuses to die down as the four authors who read excerpts from Rusdhie's 'The Satanic Verses' have already left the Jaipur Literature Festival amidst speculation that they may be arrested if they had stayed on. Sources say that the festival organisers had unofficially asked the four to leave the venue. The four authors, Hari Kunzru, Amitava Kumar, Jeet Thayil and Ruchir Joshi struck a defiant...
08:50 AM, Jan 23, 2012
Jaipur: Two days after he decided to skip the Jaipur Literature Festival citing threats from a Mumbai don, celebrated author Salman Rushdie on Sunday slammed the Rajasthan police for allegedly inventing a plot to keep him away. Rushdie tweeted: "I've investigated, and believe that I was indeed lied to. I am outraged and very angry. Don't know who gave orders. And yes I guess the same police who want to...
12:02 PM, Jan 22, 2012
Taslima was packed off to Jaipur from Kolkata on Thursday. ...
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