Playing with fire

To those blessed - or perhaps cursed, given the times we live in - with a long memory, Salman Rushdie's absence from the Jaipur Literature Festival and the parallel and related Congress courtship of the Muslim vote in Uttar Pradesh are an eerie and discomforting throwback to the politics of the mid-1980s. And, indeed, to the original banning of the Satanic Verses.

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