India Ink: Punjab, Bread Basket of India, Hungers for Change

IHT 30-JAN-12

Military show marks Republic Day

bbc 26-JAN-12

India Ink: Salman Rushdie's Video Link to Jaipur Lit Fest Cancelled After Threats

IHT 24-JAN-12

Salman Rushdie says Indian police invented death threat

montrealgazette 22-JAN-12

Maoist rebels kill 13 cops in eastern India

washtimes 21-JAN-12

Salman Rushdie cancels trip to India after death threat

cnn 20-JAN-12

India Ink: Rushdie's Uncertain Date With Jaipur

IHT 18-JAN-12

Salman Rushdie's invite to Indian lit fest sparks protests

CBC 17-JAN-12

Salman Rushdie's Expected Visit to India Raises Row

ibtimes 11-JAN-12

Call to block Rushdie India visit

bbc 10-JAN-12

Writer Christopher Hitchens dead at 62

montrealgazette 17-DEC-11

Atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 (Reuters)

news 16-DEC-11

Dev Anand’s last rites may be in London

indiatimes 05-DEC-11

:A Proxy War Between Iran and the U.S.

watchingamerica 04-DEC-11

Iranian students storm British Embassy in Tehran as six staff taken hostage

dailymail 29-NOV-11

Deceased laureate to retain Nobel Prize

thelocal 03-OCT-11

Sri Lanka: Misplaced Loyalties

tamilnet 03-OCT-11

Syrian protesters say they continue to be attacked

latimes 22-JUN-11

US presses Pakistan's president to free American (AP)

news 07-FEB-11

WikiLeaks: how the day unfolded in court for Julian Assange

telegraph 14-DEC-10

Iran sacks Foreign Minister

euronews 13-DEC-10

James bond novels go digital, cutting out Penguin

telegraph 03-NOV-10

Stewart and Colbert, like Beck, stay apolitical and call for better behavior (Daily Caller)

news 31-OCT-10

Howard Jacobson wins Man Booker Prize

telegraph 13-OCT-10

China says dissident not suitable for Nobel prize (AFP)

news 28-SEP-10

Rushdie terms monarchy stupid, archaic

Hindu 26-SEP-10

Man Utd v Liverpool

bbc 19-SEP-10

Imam warns against moving Islamic centre site

RTERadio 13-SEP-10

Rushdie defends Muslims' right to build NYC mosque

dawn 13-SEP-10

Brown for tie-ups, not campus

HindustanTimes 01-APR-10

Business English: India taps into riches as the west's back office

ft 25-JAN-10

Dissident senior cleric dies in Iran

cnn 20-DEC-09

[asserted that:]: we are all irradiated by history, we are radioactive with history and politics.

bloomberg 30-JAN-12

[-said]: The threat of assassination was either exaggerated or fabricated. And my view is that it was probably fabricated,

mg 27-JAN-12

[-said]: [If] Anyone else, who they disagree with, wishes to open his mouth, they will try to stop that mouth,

mg 27-JAN-12

[-told]: The threat of assassination was either exaggerated or fabricated,

iol 25-JAN-12

[-said]: Threat of violence by Muslim groups stifled free speech today. In a true democracy all get to speak, not just the ones making threats,

javno 24-JAN-12

[-told]: The fact that Indian government could not defend my desire to come there means the buck stops with the government. The Rajasthan government behaved as it did. This is a scandalous state of affairs,

timesofindia 24-JAN-12

[-said]: The way in which the Congress party in government, or in Rajasthan, and many other parties all stated their opposition, I felt confident that some way would be found to prevent me from coming. And sadly it was,

timesofindia 24-JAN-12

[-said]: I am outraged and very angry,

ananova 23-JAN-12

[said:]: I've investigated and believe that I was indeed lied to. I am outraged and very angry.

smh 23-JAN-12

[-wrote]: I've investigated and believe that I was indeed lied to,

HonululuAdvertiser 23-JAN-12

[-said]: I don't think anyone should be banned... but let's not make heroes out of them.

gmanews 22-JAN-12

[-said]: I’ve investigated, & believe that I was indeed lied to. I am outraged and very angry,

dawn 22-JAN-12

[-claims]: angry

timesofindia 22-JAN-12

[ said]: While I have some doubts about the accuracy of this intelligence, it would be irresponsible of me to come to the Festival in such circumstances; irresponsible to my family, to the festival audience, and to my fellow writers,

csmonitor 22-JAN-12

[-said]: I've investigated, & believe that I was indeed lied to. I am outraged and very angry,

france24 22-JAN-12

[-said]: It would be irresponsible to my family, to the festivalaudience and to my fellow writers. I will therefore not travel to Jaipur asplanned,

nationittefaq 21-JAN-12

[-said]: I don’t think anyone should be banned… but let’s not make heroes out of them.

tribune 21-JAN-12

[-said]: While I have some doubts about the accuracy of this intelligence, it would be irresponsible of me to come to the festival in such circumstances; irresponsible to my family, to the festival audience, and to my fellow writers. I will therefore not travel to Jaipur as planned.

cnn 20-JAN-12

[-said]: It would be irresponsible of me to come to the festival in such circumstances; irresponsible to my family, to the festival audience, and to my fellow writers,

bloomberg 20-JAN-12

[-said]: I have now been informed by intelligence sources in Maharashtra and Rajasthan that paid assassins from the Mumbai underworld may be on their way to Jaipur to eliminate me,

alertnet 20-JAN-12

[-said]: me,

panarmenian 20-JAN-12

[-said]: I have now been informed by intelligence sources in [the provinces of] Maharashtra and Rajasthan that paid assassins from the Mumbai underworld may be on their way to Jaipur to eliminate me,

aljazeera 20-JAN-12

[ ask]: The Times Of India newspaper reported that the government of the state of Rajasthan - where Jaipur is located - had persuaded the organisers to

bbc 17-JAN-12

[added:]: A great voice falls silent.

thesun 17-DEC-11

[wrote:]: I grew up watching your films. Sorry to say goodbye.

ibtimes 05-DEC-11

[wrote:]: RIP Dev Anand. I grew up watching your films. Sorry to say goodbye.

montrealgazette 04-DEC-11

[further explained:]: Facebook deactivated my account because they thought I wasn't me. Now they insist I call myself by the first name I have never used. What a bunch of morons.

cnet 15-NOV-11

[-wrote]: Amazing. 2 days ago FB deactivated my page saying they didn't believe I was me. I had to send a photo of my passport page. THEN... they said yes, I was me, but insisted I use the name Ahmed which appears before Salman on my passport and which I have never used,

cnet 15-NOV-11

[-said]: saying they didn't believe I was me.

france24 15-NOV-11

[-replied]: It goes without saying I loved your cameo in the Bridget Jones.

guardian 09-NOV-11

[ said]: It's a sort of paranoid science-fiction series, people disappearing and being replaced by other people,

guardian 12-JUN-11

[ said]: I'm in this position where, for the first time in my writing life, I don't have a novel on the go, but I have a movie and a memoir and a TV series,

guardian 12-JUN-11

[agreed that:]: my writing has always had elements of the fantastical

guardian 12-JUN-11

[-added]: The old flim-flam – ‘Who, us? We knew nothing’ – just isn’t going to wash,

express 04-MAY-11

[ wrote]: Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border,

trust 03-MAY-11

[-said]: ) just isn't going to wash,

indiatimes 03-MAY-11

[ wrote]: It seems the regime, irritated by the outspokenness of its most celebrated art export, whose renown has protected him up to now, has decided to silence him in the most brutal fashion,

thestar 20-APR-11

[ said]: She came out of the very un-English tradition of Grimm fairy stories and European Gothic and then made a kind of English version of this,

guardian 13-MAR-11

Dikshit [-told]: One may have differences with what Rushdie writes, but he is a very eminent writer. We welcome everyone. He is a Booker Prize winner,

economictimes 24-JAN-12

Radcliffe [-says]: They have a song called 'The Booklovers,' which is, essentially, a list of famous authors. I made it my mission after hearing it to read one book by every author on the list, which starts with Aphra Behn and ends with Rushdie. So I bought Midnight's Children.

cnn 30-SEP-11