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1 year ago    |   Tags: jaipur sri lanka rushdie literature galle freedom of expression   |   Notes: 1
How Two South Asian Literary Festivals Are Defining the Role of the Writer

How Two South Asian Literary Festivals Are Defining the Role of the Writer

Source: The Huffington Post

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1 year ago    |   Tags: rushdie freedom of expression jaipur free speech   |   Notes: 2

Fantastic article on Jaipur festival in India by Salil Tripathi, author and member of English PEN

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1 year ago    |   Tags: hari kunzru india rushdie free expression free speech   |   Notes: 3

"Our intention was not to offend anyone’s religious sensibilities, but to give a voice to a writer who had been silenced by a death threat. Reading from another one of his books would have been meaningless. The Satanic Verses was the cause of the trouble, so The Satanic Verses it would have to be…We wanted to demystify the book. It is, after all, just a book. Not a bomb. Not a knife or a gun. Just a book."

- Hari Kunzru
Source: harikunzru.com

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1 year ago    |   Tags: jaipur rushdie freedom of expression free speech hari kunzru india   |   Notes: 1

Hari Kunru on his protest reading in honor of Salman Rushdie at the Jaipur festival.

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1 year ago    |   Tags: rushdie jaipur literary festival india human rights pen   |   Notes: 9

"It shows a shocking lack of vision and integrity… Easily what many people do is ban or burn or stop, which in a country that boasts of diversity of opinion, is ridiculous and unacceptable….And this is not only about this case, today it is an A group of organisations, tomorrow it will be another.
- Sanjoy K. Roy, Jaipur Literary Festival Producer"

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Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com