As religious leaders call to ban Salman Rushdie from the Jaipur festival in India, Salil Tripathi reports on the country’s “sepulchral silence”
** Update 20 January 2012 ** – Salman Rushdie tweeted this morning:
Very sad not to be at jaipur. I was told bombay mafia don issued weapons to 2 hitmen to “eliminate” me. Will do video link instead. Damn.
— Salman Rushdie (@SalmanRushdie) January 20, 2012
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Mark Townsend spent nearly two years fighting a bizarre libel case in Dubai. Here he tells of the legal limbo of the gulf city’s labyrinthine legal system
Index’s Editor, Jo Glanville, will interview the award-winning investigative journalist Zaiba Malik about her British and Muslim identities, growing up in Bradford in the 70s and 80s and working undercover and in extreme circumstances in Bangladesh and in the heart of her family.
Monday 30 May, 10am
Venue: Summer House
This event is sold out.
Salmaan Taseer’s assassination is the result of years of political uses of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, says Salil Tripathi
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