The Salman Rushdie row refused to die down on Sunday with a police complaint being filed against the four authors who read out portions from the controversial author\u2019s banned book \u2018Satanic Verses\u2019 at the Jaipur Literature Festival. The four authors, Hari Kunzru, Amitava Kumar, Jeet Thayil and Rushir Joshi, who struck a defiant note by reading from the banned book on Friday after Rushdie called off his visit citing death threats, opted out of the five-day meet.
\nThe festival organisers, who had issued a strong statement distancing themselves from the actions of the four authors, on Sunday dismissed reports which said the writers have been forced to leave.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were not asked to leave,\u201d festival organiser Namita Gokhale clarified.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe received a complaint which is being examined. It is a complaint and no FIR has been lodged so far,\u201d said A Mohammad, SHO of Ashok Nagar police station. The complainant Ashok Kumar has demanded action against the authors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Salman Rushdie didn\u2019t come to Jaipur Literary festival. But four authors read from Rushdie\u2019s \u201cSatanic Verses\u201d at the festival. This has created a big hue and cry now. Such is the terrorism of the Islamic community within India and the fear among all people, that the organizers seem to have capitulated to the pressure. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1517,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[3018,3055],"class_list":["post-15523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-salman-rushdie","tag-satanic-verses"],"yoast_head":"\n
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