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Now, Dikshit invites Rushdie to New Delhi
Tuesday January 24, 2012 07:26:21 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Delhi Chief
Minister Sheila Dikshit Tuesday extended an invitation to author
Salman Rushdie to visit the capital, saying that the "eminent
writer" is welcome.
"We welcome everybody. We don't want to get into all this. One may
have differences with what Rushdie writes, but he is a very very
eminent writer. He is a Booker Prize winner," Dikshit told
reporters here.
Her remark came in the wake of invitation to Rushdie by
artist-activist group "Sahmat" to attend a function in Delhi.
Rushdie called off his proposed visit to the Jaipur Literature
Festival after protests by Muslims. His proposed video-conference
was also cancelled on the festival's last day Tuesday.
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