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Salman Rushdie will attend Jaipur festival despite protest
Satanic Verses author’s latest visit to his Indian homeland has angered some Muslim clericsSalman Rushdie will be attending the Jaipur literature festival later this month, organisers have said, despite calls from Islamic clerics to prevent the author of The Satanic Verses from entering India. India’s best-known Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband said yesterday that Rushdie has “hurt the sentiments of Muslims the world over” and should therefore not be allowed to visit India for the Jaipur festival, which runs from 20 to 24 January and where he is set to talk at a session on “Inglish, Amlish, Hinglish: The Chutneyfication of English”.
published date:Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:27:53 GMT