Salman Rushdie Literature Festival

The seventh edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival, a mega annual gathering of litterateurs kicked off in Jupiter today with a keynote speech by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.

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.

The sixth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival 2013, the high profile gathering of litterateurs in Asia, kicked off today. Around 20,000 people are expected to attend the festival every day.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Dismissing Salman Rushdie's charge that the state police had invented a "plot" to keep him away from the Literature Festival, the Rajasthan government tonight said it had received intelligence inputs that the banned SIMI was planning to target him during the festival.

The controversy over author Salman Rushdie skipping the Jaipur Literature Festival due to alleged security threats has turned into an ugly spat between the congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP today said Rushdie's visit was a fixed match between intelligence agencies and the Centre and accused the congress of communalising the iss...

To a crowd saturated with serious debate on Salman Rushdie affair, Javed Akhtar and Gulzar brought a welcome relief at Jaipur Literature Festival.

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.

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.

The seventh edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival, a mega annual gathering of litterateurs kicked off in Jupiter today with a keynote speech by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen.

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.

The sixth edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival 2013, the high profile gathering of litterateurs in Asia, kicked off today. Around 20,000 people are expected to attend the festival every day.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Dismissing Salman Rushdie's charge that the state police had invented a "plot" to keep him away from the Literature Festival, the Rajasthan government tonight said it had received intelligence inputs that the banned SIMI was planning to target him during the festival.

The controversy over author Salman Rushdie skipping the Jaipur Literature Festival due to alleged security threats has turned into an ugly spat between the congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP today said Rushdie's visit was a fixed match between intelligence agencies and the Centre and accused the congress of communalising the iss...

To a crowd saturated with serious debate on Salman Rushdie affair, Javed Akhtar and Gulzar brought a welcome relief at Jaipur Literature Festival.

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.

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.