Jaipur festival cancels Salman Rushdie video link
Owner of festival's hotel venue scraps event featuring Satanic Verses author following police warning of violence
The organisers of Asia's biggest literary festival have been forced to cancel a video-linked appearance by British author Salman Rushdie after owners of the venue in the north-west Indian city of Jaipur decided it would be unsafe to allow it.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 24 January, 2012
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