"We are a much younger country than India, so it may seem unfair to compare, but we are not too young to make an effort to learn and catch up."

Once a year Jaipur becomes a literary wonderland, packed with people mad about the written word

It’s not often Paul Theroux and Hanif Kureishi take on VS Naipul at a free literary festival in the desert.

British author Salman Rushdie’s planned appearance at the literary festival has been thrown into doubt after protests from influential Muslim clerics.

<i>The Satanic Verses</i> author’s latest visit to his Indian homeland has angered some Muslim clerics.