Rushdie Pulls Out of India Literature Festival Amid Threats
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Novelist Salman Rushdie pulled out of India’s largest literature festival after receiving warnings that assassins were planning to kill him at the five-day event for writing a book that some Muslims condemn as blasphemous.
Rushdie said that while he has doubts about the veracity of the intelligence that members of the Mumbai underworld were going to “eliminate” him, it would be reckless to attend the event in the Rajasthan city of Jaipur that started today.