{"id":67731,"date":"2024-11-08T20:18:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/nov\/08\/indian-import-ban-salman-rushdie-satanic-verses-lifted-official-order-lost"},"modified":"2024-11-08T20:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:18:12","slug":"indian-import-ban-on-rushdies-satanic-verses-to-end-as-no-official-order-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67731","title":{"rendered":"Indian import ban on Rushdie\u2019s Satanic Verses to end as no official order found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government unable to produce \u2018untraceable\u2019 notification against 1988 novel when citizen brought matter to court<\/p>\n<p>Writing to the then Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, in October 1988, Salman Rushdie lamented that Indian democracy had become \u201ca laughing stock\u201d after the government placed a ban on importing his contentious novel The Satanic Verses.<\/p>\n<p>Now 36 years later, the author may have the last laugh as the ban looks set to be lifted after the Indian government failed to locate the original order.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/nov\/08\/indian-import-ban-salman-rushdie-satanic-verses-lifted-official-order-lost\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government unable to produce \u2018untraceable\u2019 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 \u201ca laughin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[511,71,62,925,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-india","category-salman-rushdie","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67732,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67731\/revisions\/67732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}