With much ruckus created over Salman Rushdie’s visit that never happened, the producer of the Jaipur Literature Festival believes it was a “tragic mistake” on the organisers’ part to have made public his attendance.
The festival had earlier seen Rushdie’s presence in 2007 without much fuss, and an unannounced visit by controversial Dutch-Somali writer Ayaan Hirsi Ali in 2010.
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