Rushdie pulls out of Literary Fest

The author of Midnight's Children says intelligence sources have told him that assassins from the Mumbai underworld were out to eliminate himDay One of the country's largest literary festival was met with the announcement that author Salman Rushdie had pulled out of the DSC Jaipur Literature Festival. A statement released by the author read, "I have now been informed by intelligence sources in Maharashtra and Rajasthan that paid assassins from the Mumbai underworld may be on their way

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