A court in New Delhi, India, closed proceedings on a petition filed five years ago that challenged the then-government's decision to ban the import of Salman Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses." ...

The ban, originally imposed in 1988 under then-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, came in response to protests from Muslim groups who argued that the book was blasphemous to Islam ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's three-decade ban on importing author Salman Rushdie's controversial 'The Satanic Verses' book has effectively been lifted after a court said the government was unable ...

I was likely more caught up in Rushdie’s flowing prose and style and his remarkable ability to sustain a narrative over 500 ...

Rushdie, 77, lived in hiding for years after Iran's first supreme leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered his killing for what he deemed the book's blasphemous nature. The British-American ...

India, where Rushdie was born, was the first country to ban the book, just nine days after its publication in September 1988. Then in February 1989, the Supreme Leader of Iran at the time ...

NEW YORK, NY – TIME Magazine has unveiled its annual list of 100 Notable Books, and it features South Asian authors whose ...

Rushdie, now a citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States, has yet to comment publicly. He has more than 1 million followers on his X account, on which he last posted in September.