Salman Rushdie: I will NOT travel to Jaipur as planned

Ending weeks of speculation, the writer finally broke his silence on his visit to the Jaipur Literature FestivalAs the session on Barack Obama came to an end, media persons were informed of a......

'I don't need to READ The Satanic Verses to oppose it'

Mohammed Saleem Engineer is the national secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami-e-Hind, the Islamic organisation that has its headquarters in New Delhi. The organisation is an offshoot of the......

Complaint against authors who read from Satanic Verses

The Salman Rushdie row refused to die down on Sunday with a police complaint being filed against the four authors who read out portions from the controversial author's banned book Satanic Verses at......

Day 2 at the Lit Fest: Fever, honour and the loo!

Writer-Director Suparn Verma and Rediff.com correspondent Abhishek Mande are attending the Jaipur Literary Festival, the leading literary event in the Asia Pacific. After their enthralling......