カテゴリー: Salman Rushdie
Book banned since 1988 is ‘selling out’ after import bar was overturned due to missing paperworkSalman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses – which led to a fatwa threatening his life, forcing him into hiding for a decade – has finally returned to b…
Government unable to produce ‘untraceable’ notification against 1988 novel when citizen brought matter to courtWriting to the then Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, in October 1988, Salman Rushdie lamented that Indian democracy had become “a laughin…
In a wide-ranging Guardian interview, the former prime minister say he understands anger The Satanic Verses created ‘but you can’t justify what happened’Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan has condemned the attack on Salman Rushdie, describing …
As an aspiring writer I loved many exiled authors, from Márquez to Kundera, but with Rushdie the stakes were raisedIt was more than a decade ago when I was introduced to the work of Salman Rushdie, thanks to the recommendation of a writer in my homelan…
Majority of public figures have chosen not to comment on attack on Indian-born writerThe literary world and public figures across the globe have expressed shock and outrage after the author Salman Rushdie was attacked at an event in New York.But in Pak…
More than 250 authors urge India’s prime minister to reinstate overseas citizenship of British journalist Aatish Taseer Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood are among more than 250 authors calling on India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to…
More than 250 authors urge India’s prime minister to reinstate overseas citizenship of British journalist Aatish Taseer Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood are among more than 250 authors calling on India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to…