Sahmat

• Authors, historians denounce Penguin's withdrawal of Wendy Doniger's book 'The Hindus'

  A group of authors and historians has denounced the withdrawal of American scholar Wendy Doniger's book on Hinduism, calling it a "campaign to drown all questioning voices and prepare the ground for a chauvinistic and communal presentation of history and culture."

• Rushdie welcome in Delhi, says Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit

  Amid protests by Muslim groups against hosting Salman Rushdie in Jaipur, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today said that one may have differences with what he writes but the "very, very eminent" writer is welcome in the capital.