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.
"In view of the resentment simmering in the city against Rushdie's (proposed) address, we have told the organisers that they cannot allow the writer to speak via video," Jaipur's Superintendent of Police Vijendra Jhala told media persons.