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A Ban on Salman Rushdie in India?

A Ban on Salman Rushdie in India?

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Jan 14, 2012
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India’s culture police are flexing their muscles again. On the eve of author Salman Rushdie’s Jan. 21-25 visit to India for the Jaipur Literature Festival in the desert state of Rajasthan, the largest literary festival in the Asia-Pacific, a war cry has been sounded to stop the controversial writer from setting foot in the country.

Maulana Abul Qasim Nom…

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