Over the last six days at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, bigotry, intolerance and censorship has dominated everything, both formal and informal.
This is because of a book The Satanic Verses banned by a Muslim fatwa in 1988, and the planned appearance of Salman Rushdie, the author. Fanatics threatened violence if Rushdie came to Jaipur and police intelligence suggested that assassins were planned to kill Rushdie.
What with corruption high in the public’s mind, the failure to guarantee free speech, esp at a literary festival does not bode well for democracy in India.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/monisha-rajesh/salman-rushdies-jaipur_b_1232218.html
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