Jaipur Literary Festival

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  Jaipur Literature Festival Begins February 1 Next Year. Details Here

  Dubbed as "the greatest literary show on earth", the upcoming edition of the festival, scheduled from February 1-5, 2024, will take place at Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur.

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  Jaipur Literature Festival Begins With a Soulful Hymn

  Setting the tone for the Jaipur Literature festival, Sufi gospel singer Sonam Kalra's voice, singing the famous hymn 'Abide with Me', welcomed delegates to what has become one of the biggest literary events in the world.

• Best of Jaipur Literature Festival 2013

  With nearly 300 participating authors from around the country and the world, 150 poets, musicians and performers, and more than a lakh and a half visitors, JLF 2013 was a literary blockbuster.

• Supreme Court orders stay on Ashis Nandy's arrest over remark at Jaipur literary fest

  The Supreme Court has ruled that for now sociologist Ashis Nandy cannot be arrested for remarks made by him at the Jaipur Literary Festival last week.

• Supreme Court to hear Ashis Nandy's plea against arrest today

  The Supreme Court will today hear sociologist Ashis Nandy's petition seeking protection from arrest for an alleged anti-Dalit remark he made at the Jaipur Literary Festival earlier this week.

• Ashis Nandy should be arrested immediately: Mayawati

  BSP chief Mayawati today demanded that the Rajasthan government should immediately send author Ashis Nandy to jail over his controversial remarks at the Jaipur Literary Festival that "most corrupt people come from OBC, SC and ST communities".

• Dalai Lama to attend Jaipur literary fest

  This year, the much-anticipated Jaipur Literature Festival will have a special touch of spirituality with an underlying theme of Buddha's influence on the literary.

• Kashmir to have first ever international literary festival

  The first ever international Kashmir literary festival, on the lines of the Jaipur Literary Festival, is to be organized in the Valley this year, an official said in Srinagar on Monday.

• Salman Rushdie has no right to hurt Muslim sentiments: Imran Khan

  Pakistan politician Imran Khan has blamed the Muslim community for "failing" to make the British understand their religious sentiments, but says that Salman Rushdie has no right to hurt Muslims.

• Full transcript: I'm returning to India, deal with it - Salman Rushdie to NDTV

  Writer Salman Rushdie spoke exclusively to NDTV's Barkha Dutt after his video address to the Jaipur Literary Festival was cancelled.

• Salman Rushdie video link cancelled in Jaipur

  The Jaipur Literature Festival ended without any participation from writer Salman Rushdie. A video chat scheduled for 3.45 pm was called off by the organizers of the event and the owners of the venue. They said the police had advised them that protesters at the venue and elsewhere in the city could trigger violence.

• Protests over Rushdie's video link create new uncertainty in Jaipur

  Barely two hours after the organisers of the Jaipur Literary Festival confirmed that Salman Rushdie would join the event via a video link from London, protests at the venue are leading to reports that the session with Mr Rushdie may yet be cancelled. Organisers are reportedly meeting with the police right now.

• Controversy over who kept Salman Rushdie out of Jaipur Literature Festival

  The literary fest in Jaipur is drawing big crowds, but also bigger controversies, courtesy Salman Rushdie. The heated debate over several authors reading from his The Satanic Verses, a book banned in India, is still raging and so is the one on what kept Mr Rushdie away from the festival.

• Salman Rushdie statement on Jaipur Lit Fest

  Renowned and controversial author Salman Rushdie finally announced that he would not be attending the Jaipur Literature Festival after all. The event has begun today. Mr Rushdie also issued a statement explaining the reason behind his skipping the meet.

• Jaipur's Rushdie controversy: Five big facts

  The Jaipur Literary Festival begins today. It runs five days and will host 250 authors, including Michael Ondaatje and David Hare. Oprah Winfrey will also attend. Salman Rushdie was meant to speak on the opening day and at a few other sessions during the rest of the festival. After an Islamic seminary based in Uttar Pradesh called for protests a...