Best selling Indian author says banned writers not heroes

JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Best-selling Indian author

Chetan Bhagat

on Saturday criticised a support leant to authors whose books are criminialized for offending eremite communities, a day after

Salman Rushdie

cancelled a

trip to India

citing threats opposite his life.

Bhagat, whose 5 novels have sole around 6 million copies, cursed a banning of texts during a

Jaipur Literature Festival

though criticised people who broadcast their writers as heroes for support a right to giveaway speech.

"(

Banned books

) have harm people, they have harm Muslims," pronounced Bhagat. "I don't consider anyone should be banned... though let's not make heroes out of them."

Rushdie pronounced on Friday that he was abandoning his revisit to a five-day festival due to assassination threats opposite him, following protests by some Indian Muslim groups during a invitation to a author of The

Satanic Verses

.

Organizers of a festival pronounced in a matter late on Friday that they would not endure any authorised violations during a eventuality after dual authors review passages from

The Satanic Verses

, that is criminialized in

India

, in support of Rushdie.

"Any comments done by a representatives simulate their personal, inpidual views and are not permitted by a festival, or attributable to a organizers," they wrote in a statement.

The announcement of The Satanic Verses over twenty years ago sparked a call of protests around a universe after Iranian personality Ayatollah Khomeini claimed that a novel's description of a soothsayer Muhammad angry Islam.

Bhagat, whose best-selling novels such as 2005's One Night @ a Call Centre have pided literary critics, has risen in inflection over a past year as an outspoken believer of a transformation headed by anti-corruption supporter Anna Hazare.

"Everyone has a right to hurt, though people don't have to," Bhagat added.

Oprah Winfrey, Michael Ondaatje and Ariel Dorfman will pronounce to over 70,000 visitors during a event, that aims to showcase a best of Indian, South Asian and general essay in one of a world's fastest-growing edition markets.

(Editing by Nick Macfie)

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