Editing Salman Rushdie (section)

===Jaipur Literature Festival (2012)===
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Rushdie was due to appear at the [[Jaipur Literature Festival]] in January 2012 in [[Jaipur, Rajasthan]], India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/program-2011/speakers-2012/#o|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125234432/http://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/program-2011/speakers-2012|url-status=dead|title=2012 Speakers|archive-date=25 January 2012}}</ref> However, he later cancelled his event appearance, and a further tour of India at the time, citing a possible threat to his life as the primary reason.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Salman-Rushdie-not-to-attend-Jaipur-Literature-Festival/articleshow/11565622.cms|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121201171235/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-20/india/30646521_1_jaipur-literature-festival-salman-rushdie-satanic-verses|url-status= live|archive-date= 1 December 2012|title=Salman Rushdie not to attend Jaipur Literature Festival|last=Singh|first= Akhilesh Kumar|date=20 January 2012|work= [[The Times of India]]|access-date=20 January 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16644782|title=Salman Rushdie pulls out of Jaipur literature festival|date=20 January 2012|work=BBC News|access-date=20 January 2012|archive-date=20 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120175134/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-16644782|url-status=live}}</ref> Several days after, he indicated that state police agencies had lied, in order to keep him away, when they informed him that paid assassins were being sent to Jaipur to kill him. Police contended that they were afraid Rushdie would read from the banned ''The Satanic Verses'', and that the threat was real, considering imminent protests by Muslim organizations.<ref name=virtual_rushdie_unwelcome/>

Meanwhile, Indian authors [[Ruchir Joshi]], [[Jeet Thayil]], [[Hari Kunzru]] and [[Amitava Kumar]] abruptly left the festival, and Jaipur, after reading excerpts from Rushdie's banned novel at the festival. The four were urged to leave by organizers as there was a real possibility they would be arrested.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Salman-Rushdie-shadow-on-Jaipur-Literature-Festival-4-authors-who-read-from-The-Satanic-Verses-sent-packing/articleshow/11595228.cms|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120205203714/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-23/jaipur/30655383_1_jaipur-literature-festival-hari-kunzru-organizers|url-status= live|archive-date= 5 February 2012|title= Salman Rushdie shadow on Jaipur Literature Festival: 4 authors who read from 'The Satanic Verses' sent packing|author1=Singh, Akhilesh Kumar |author2=Chowdhury, Shreya Roy |date=23 January 2012|work= [[The Times of India]]|access-date=23 January 2012}}</ref>

A proposed video link session between Rushdie and the Jaipur Literature Festival was also cancelled at the last minute<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/books/rushdies-video-talk-is-canceled-at-india-literature-festival.html|title=Rushdie's Video Talk Is Canceled at India Literature Festival|last=Gill|first=Nikhila|date=24 January 2012|work=The New York Times|access-date=6 December 2014|archive-date=14 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214183749/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/books/rushdies-video-talk-is-canceled-at-india-literature-festival.html|url-status=live}}</ref> after the government pressured the festival to stop it.<ref name=virtual_rushdie_unwelcome>{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/Jaipur-Literature-Festival-Even-a-virtual-Rushdie-is-unwelcome-for-Rajasthan-govt/articleshow/11609354.cms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116101750/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-01-24/jaipur/30658450_1_rushdie-video-video-link-satanic-verses|url-status=live|archive-date=16 January 2013|title= Jaipur Literature Festival: Even a virtual Rushdie is unwelcome for Rajasthan govt|author= Singh, Akhilesh Kumar|date=24 January 2012|work=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=24 January 2012}}</ref> Rushdie returned to India to address a conference in New Delhi on 16 March 2012.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17349023|work=BBC News|title=Salman Rushdie to be a 'presence' at India conference|date=13 March 2012|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=14 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114170754/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17349023|url-status=live}}</ref>