“The adventures of a lesbian detective kept millions of Pakistanis enthralled for eight years. In weekly installments, its male writer brought to life in high Urdu and Farsi the voracious Bano, a wealthy Karachi-ite who solved crimes and trawled school buses for schoolgirls.” This week the Jaipur festival’s co-director stopped a planned reading (in English) from the series out of deference to the (presumed) “sensitivities of the audience.”