Police seek video of Nandy’s remarks, author leaves Jaipur
Police have sought video of author Ashis Nandy’s controversial comments that people from OBC, SC and ST communities were the “most corrupt” made at the Jaipur Literary Festival even as he left the city skipping rest of the event amid protests demanding his arrest.
MEA bars two Pak diplomats from Jaipur literary festival
New Delhi: The government has prevented two Pakistani diplomats from attending the ongoing Jaipur literary festival.
Media reports quoted Union Home Ministry sources, as saying that it was not in fav
Rajasthan gag on Salman Rushdie video talk
While the Jaipur Literature Festival organisers were busy discussing the pros and cons of linking writer Salman Rushdie to the festival audience via video, more than six criminal complaints were filed
Rushdie’s video address at Jaipur LitFest cancelled
The video address by The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie at the DSC Jaipur Literary Festival on Tuesday has been cancelled, a police official said.
Writers seek revoking ban on 'The Satanic Verses'
A group of independent writers and artists on Sunday presented a petition supporting the right of all artists and writers to freedom of expression and revoking of the ban on Salman Rushdie's 'The Sata
Police cast doubts on threat to Rushdie life
Police in Maharashtra on Saturday cast doubts on the threat to life of Salman Rushdie from ‘paid assassins’ from Mumbai that led the controversial India-born author to pull out of the Jaipur Literary
Salman Rushdie's Jaipur visit under cloud
Salman Rushdie's proposed visit to Jaipur for the Literary Festival has come under cloud with the Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband saying on Monday that the Booker-prize winning author should not
Violence-hit Kashmir to hold literary festival
Kashmir is all set to host a major literature festival this September in another sign of easing tensions in the revolt-hit region.
The event is to be staged in Srinagar by the organiser of Asia's big
Racism row, 'British obsession', mar Jaipur Literary Festival
India's biggest book festival kicks off on Friday clouded by accusations of racism and an ugly public spat over the apparent obsession with former colonial power Britain in literary circles.