{"id":68522,"date":"2024-12-26T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/dec\/26\/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses-india-bookshops"},"modified":"2024-12-26T23:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T14:01:14","slug":"rushdies-satanic-verses-returns-to-indian-bookshops-after-36-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68522","title":{"rendered":"Rushdie\u2019s Satanic Verses returns to Indian bookshops after 36 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book banned since 1988 is \u2018selling out\u2019 after import bar was overturned due to missing paperwork<\/p>\n<p>Salman Rushdie\u2019s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses \u2013 which led to a fatwa threatening his life, forcing him into hiding for a decade \u2013 has finally returned to bookshops in India, the land of his birth.<\/p>\n<p>The novel, inspired by the life of the prophet Muhammad, became the focus of a fierce global debate about freedom of speech when Iran\u2019s then-supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, placed a bounty on Rushdie\u2019s head due to its supposed blasphemy. The book was banned in India by Rajiv Gandhi\u2019s government in 1988 after riots erupted over its contents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2024\/dec\/26\/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses-india-bookshops\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book banned since 1988 is \u2018selling out\u2019 after import bar was overturned due to missing paperworkSalman Rushdie\u2019s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses \u2013 which led to a fatwa threatening his life, forcing him into hiding for a decade \u2013 has finally returned to b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4540,"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":[511,71,1041,62,448,925,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture","category-fiction","category-india","category-iran","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\/68522","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\/4540"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68523,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68522\/revisions\/68523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}