New Delhi: Asserting that he has worked for Dalits, OBCs and adivasis for 45 years of his life, sociologist Ashis Nandy, who stoked a controversy with his comments at the Jaipur Literature Festival (

Jaipur: Women need to fight for their rights and should not expect to get them without struggle, an all women panel said here at the Jaipur Literature Festival today during a session to discuss gende

Jaipur: Coming down heavily on the caste structure in Hindu religion, author Kancha Ilaiah today advocated adopting the Buddha’s ideology as a way to achieve secularism in the country, generating a l

Jaipur: After a raging row that forced Salman Rushdie to keep away last year, this year’s Jaipur Literature Festival kicked off to a peaceful start amidst tight security with overriding sentiments fa

Muzzaffarnagar: Leading Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband today demanded that “controversial authors” be kept away from the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) in the Pink City.
The Deoband’s demand

Criticising the government for the controversy surrounding Salman Rushdie's visit to the Jaipur Literature Festival, novelist Vikram Seth said the affair was whipped up because of ‘power’, ‘politics’

The five-day Jaipur Literature Festival closed on a sad, angry and distressing note on Tuesday when even the image of Salman Rushdie, the author of the Booker of Bookers Midnight’s Children, The Satan

Though the human right groups expressed shock over the cancelling of author Salman Rushdie’s video address at Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), the Muslim activists assembled at the venue expressing j

Salman Rushdie would be addressing the Jaipur Literature Festival via videolink on Tuesday afternoon, festival organiser Sanjoy Roy announced as speculation swirled on whether the controversial author

The flip-flop continues. A much awaited video address by controversial author Salman Rushdie at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Tuesday afternoon came under a cloud again following protests by Musli