Reading From Satanic Verses

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  Read Some Pages Of Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses", Says Attacker

  The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie said he respected Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and he read a couple of pages from Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses".

• 'We will not be bullied by fringe elements': Jaipur Lit Fest organisers

  The Jaipur Literature festival is in trouble once again. Fringe organisations have demanded that authors who read excerpts from Booker winner Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses at last year's fest be barred from attending this year's edition. There have also been protests against participation by Pakistani authors by some groups.

• Uncertainty over Salman Rushdie's video link; complaints against authors who read from 'The Satanic Verses'

  After much controversy first over his presence and then his absence at the Jaipur Literature Festival, it's now unclear if the writer will be allowed to participate on the fifth and final day of the event via a video link. Sources in the government and police say that concerns about law and order may be used to pull the plug on the video chat.

• 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.

• Why I read from The Satanic Verses: An author's explanation

  Author Hari Kunzru has defended reading excerpts from Salman Rushdie's banned novel Satanic Verses on stage during the Jaipur Literature Festival last week.

• Reading 'The Satanic Verses' in India: Is it Illegal?

  Did Amitava Kumar, Hari Kunzru and other authors who read passages from Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses," which is banned in India, Friday evening at the Jaipur Literature Festival violate Indian law?

• Police demand tapes of reading from Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses'; some authors leave LitFest

  A day after author Salman Rushdie made it clear that he would not be coming to India, alleging that he was told that underworld hitmen were out to get him, the raging debate at the Jaipur Literature Festival is still on. The police have now asked for the tape recordings of author Amitava Kumar who read out excerpts from Mr Rushdie's controversial b...